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Kwale County Government has rolled out a bursary allocation worth Ksh 60 million targeting 10,000 needy secondary school students across the county. The move comes after the Controller of Budget Margaret Nyakang’o suspended the bursary disbursements for more than eight months. Nyakang’o had also frozen the bursary budget for counties in the 2026/2027 financial year.…

The African Union Commission has announces the launch of a new category for the teachers prize, the Rural Continental Teacher Award, the first of its kind within the African Union Continental Teacher Awards, (CTA), recognising the extraordinary contributions of teachers working in Africa’s rural and underserved communities. According to the Union, the new category, developed…

KUPPET Secretary General Akelo Misori/Photo File The Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) has written to the Teachers Service Commission TSC, requesting a meeting to deliberate on the growing disquiet among Junior school teachers across the country. In a circular dated October 2, and signed by the KUPPET Secretary General Akelo Misori, the…

World Teachers’ Day, celebrated every year on October 5th, traces its origin to 1994, when UNESCO, in collaboration with the International Labour Organisation (ILO), UNICEF and Education International (EI), established it to commemorate the 1966 ILO/UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers. This landmark document set international standards for the rights, responsibilities and working conditions…

The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) has consistently faced one of the most difficult challenges in education – protecting the integrity of national examinations. In a country where exams determine academic progression and future opportunities, the temptation to cheat, leak papers or manipulate marks has remained strong. Yet, the council’s recent reforms mark a major…

As the world marks another World Teachers’ Day, the celebration feels both joyous and unsettling. Joyous, because teachers remain the architects of civilisation; alarming, because the foundations of their craft are shifting beneath their feet. Artificial Intelligence, once a futuristic idea confined to research labs, is now rewriting the story of teaching and learning. In…

In the quiet corridors of a rural primary school in Turkana, Mr Kamau, a senior teacher with over thirty years of service, arranged his lesson plans meticulously on the desk. His students shuffled in, eager for the day’s lesson, but his mind was elsewhere. He had just received a circular from the Teachers Service Commission…

Bomet JSS teachers protest in Bomet town calling for independence from primary school heads and confirmation of interns. Photo Philip Koech. Junior Secondary School (JSS) teachers in Bomet County, led by officials of the Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET), held peaceful demonstrations to demand full administrative autonomy and improved working conditions for JSS…