Inside 2024 school calendar
The government through the Ministry of Education has unveiled the 2024 calendar for pre-primary, primary, secondary schools and teachers’ training colleges. According to the calendar, the pre-primary, primary and secondary schools will have 13 weeks of classwork from January 8 to April 5, 2024 with a mid-term break from February 29 to March 3. At […]
CS Magoha dismisses call by atheists to abolish mandatory prayer days in schools
Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha has dismissed a call by the Atheist In Kenya society (AIK) to ban mandatory prayer days in schools. Speaking to the press on Thursday, March 3, Magoha said he has only stopped prayers from outsiders. “Atheists telling me to stop prayers in school should go straight to hell,” the CS […]
CS Magoha dismisses call by atheists to abolish mandatory prayer days in schools
Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha has dismissed a call by the Atheist In Kenya society (AIK) to ban mandatory prayer days in schools. Speaking to the press on Thursday, March 3, Magoha said he has only stopped prayers from outsiders. “Atheists telling me to stop prayers in school should go straight to hell,” the CS […]
Principal, MP faulted in case where Form Two student spent night with watchman after he was sent home for school fees
A Form Two student at Chavakali High School who was sent home for school fees was forced to spend the night of Wednesday, September 1 with a night guard outside a bank in Kakamega town after walking 32 kilometers from the school towards his home in Trans Nzoia county. Only identified as Linus, the student […]
40-year-old woman in court for conning KMTC students Ksh200,000 for favourable exam grades
A 40-year-old woman has been charged with obtaining Ksh200,000 from two students of Kenya Medical Training College in exchange for ensuring they qualify in their final examination which they had failed. Sabrina Ahmed Ismael who presented herself to the two students as a government worker at the Ministry of Education is alleged to have committed […]
Parent in shock after son who secured admission slot at Kakamega High is turned down, directed to Extra County school
A parent who had accompanied her boy, who scored 382 marks and secured a chance at Kakamega High School, is left reeling in shock after she was dismissed that her son was called at the institution. According to Mrs Odilia Luyayi, the boy secured a chance to join Kakamega High School and was shocked to […]
Girls who get pregnant in school should not be sent home – Akothee advises
Controversial singer Esther Akoth popularly known by her stage name as Akothee has come to the defence of thousands of school-going girls who are dismissed from schools for being pregnant. In a message she shared on her Instagram page, the Lotto hitmaker says pregnant school girls should be allowed to continue with their studies unless […]