UNDERFUNDING The State Department for Higher Education and Research is facing a budget deficit of Sh39.5 billion for recurrent expenditure, a report to Departmental Committee on Education and Research shows. The report said the recurrent expenditure requirement for the 2023/2024 Financial Year was Sh153.9 billion against an allocation of Sh114.3 billion. “It’s worthwhile to note […]
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COLLEGE PLACEMENT The Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service portal is now open and eligible students have until June 7, 2023, to apply for placement or revise their courses. The application is open for placement in various universities and TVET colleges countrywide. KUCCPS said 2020 KCSE candidates are eligible to apply for placement in […]
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From 17th to 19th May 2023, the Bakhita Partnership for Education (BPE) will convene the “Keep-the-Girls in School: Creating Gender-Sensitive Education Systems” Indaba, in Lusaka, Zambia, to consider the state of girls’ education in Africa in the wake of the unprecedented school closures caused by COVID-19. This Indaba, which will be graced by the presence of Zambia’s […]
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University of Embu Vice-Chancellor Prof Daniel Mugendi has linked robust team work to the stellar performance of the university following the ranking of the university as the best performing state corporation in the 2021/22 financial year performance contracting evaluation. The VC said that the institution which started as Embu Agricultural Training College, a constituent college […]
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Rift Valley region are the champions of Primary Schools Athletics with historic 511 points. Western region emerged second with overall 315 points and Nyanza third with 281points. Central region came in fourth with 130points, Coast fifth (127 points), and Eastern sixth (104 points). Nairobi and North Eastern regions tailed with 23 and 15 points respectively. […]
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Education Cabinet Secretary (CS) Ezekiel Machogu Wednesday held discussions with a delegation from the National University Commission of Nigeria led by Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, who paid him a courtesy call at Jogoo House. Machogu said Kenya and Nigeria share plenty in common, therefore the need to form collaborations and work together in getting solutions to common problems affecting […]
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The University of Embu has been ranked the best performing State Corporation in the just released performance contracting report. In the report, the University attained a composite score of 1.7272 followed by the National Irrigation Authority which managed a composite score of 1.7729. Of the top ten ranks, four public universities made it to the list, which […]
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MALPRACTICE Appearing before the National Assembly’s Committee on Education, Machogu stated that the headteachers changed their low scores to inaccurate figures that they mounted on their noticeboards. He added that the school heads also lied to the public about their performance noting that some of them including headteachers of Kisii and Western schools went around with vehicles to […]
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The University of Embu has been ranked the best performing State Corporation in the just released performance contracting report. In the report, the University attained a composite score of 1.7272 followed by the National Irrigation Authority which managed a composite score of 1.7729. Of the top ten ranks, four public universities made it to the list, which […]
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Officials from the Ministry of Health and Education have moved in to help curb the worrying trend of disease outbreaks in schools. The Health CS Susan Wafula on Wednesday visited Kakamega County which has since seen two schools shut indefinitely. The CS together with education officials led by education PS Belio Kipsang are currently visiting […]
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