Rongo University is pleased to announce that a total of 2,749 students have been placed by KUCCPS to study various cutting-edge academic programs offered by the University. While receiving the placement list from the DVC (ASA), the Vice-Chancellor congratulated and welcomed the students to join Rongo University- the gold mine of knowledge. The Vice-Chancellor further indicated that the University… Read More »
President Uhuru Kenyatta has today announced that schools will reopen in September, 2020. While making a public address the president said the reopening shall only be done gradually to curb possible massive infections. The president has directed the ministry of education to come up with a revised school calendar that will be released in August. The president also… Read More »
It has emerged that the 2019 KCSE candidates gave close to 20 university courses a wide berth during the just concluded 2020/2021 students’ selection process by the Kenya universities and Colleges Central Placement Service, KUCCPS. No single student selected these courses that have a total declared capacity of 940. The courses may have been distasteful to the prospective… Read More »
The Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) has released the June, 2020, radio and TV lessons’ time table for learners at home. The TV lessons will continue to be streamed on EDU Channel TV that is available on DSTV channel 316, GOTV- 804, 824 and BAMBA 888, SIGNET 828, PANG 816, AZAM- 332, ZUKU -029, STARTIMES- 365 DTT and 310… Read More »
The Ministry of education has directed schools to trim their excess staff in order to reduce bloated wage bills. The ministry has at the same time released salaries that teachers (employed by boards of management) and other school workers should earn per month. These latest directives come in the backdrop of schools’ failing to pay their employed workers… Read More »
Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, MMUST, has announced plans to offers lectures to all students in May, 2020. This is in a bid to ensure that their academic calendar is not affected much by the current Covid-19 pandemic that has seen a total shutdown of all learning institutions. MMUST just like other learning institutions in Kenya… Read More »
Education Cabinet Secretary Prof. George Magoha has said the 2020 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) and Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examinations will not be postponed. Addressing the media today ,during the daily updates session on the Corona virus pandemic in the country, the CS said the exams will go on as scheduled; as not so… Read More »
The Minister for Education and Sports in Uganda, Janet Museveni, has announced the schools’ reopening dates for continuation of first term of 2020. This follows a directive to close all schools for 30 days (effective Friday March 20, 2020) by the Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni in order to combat the spread of COVID-19 in the country. The east… Read More »
The Minister for Education and Sports in Uganda, Janet Museveni, has announced the schools’ reopening dates for continuation of first term of 2020. This follows a directive to close all schools for 30 days (effective Friday March 20, 2020) by the Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni in order to combat the spread of COVID-19 in the country. The east… Read More »
The Association of African Universities (AAU) has called upon universities in Africa to move “urgently” to implement alternative methods of delivering teaching and learning using technology and other distance learning techniques in the wake of the closures of higher education institutions to limit the spread of COVID-19. In a statement issued on 19 March, AAU Secretary-General Professor Etienne… Read More »