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Kaunda waren of Migori Primary celebrates after scoring 408 marks in the 2020 KCPE exam. [Caleb Kingwara, Standard]
Last year’s candidates who sat for the end of primary school exams braved the Covid-19 shockwave, lockdown and long closures to post better results than in 2019.
Education Cabinet Secretary Prof George Magoha paid glowing tribute to the 2020 class as accomplishers and strong-willed and dismissed those who predicted they would record massive failures as “doomsayers’ and shamed them.
In the results, public schools some of which are at the bottom of the poverty ladder and risked being hit hard by the challenges of virtual learning, produced 10 of the top 15 KCPE stars.
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Kennedy Gachuhi |
January 31st 2021 at 12:55:01 GMT +0300
Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) Secretary general Wilson Sossion addresses teachers after overseeing Nakuru county KNUT elections at Afraha High school. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]
Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) has called for the abolition of boarding schools in the country to curb rising cases of arson and assault on teachers and other staff since January.
The union has also vehemently opposed plans to reintroduce corporal punishment of learners caught up in indiscipline cases in schools saying this leaves the safety of teachers at risk.
KNUT Secretary General Wilson Sossion spoke to journalists at Afraha High School in Nakuru after the members conducted elections of union officials from eleven counties.
By
Kennedy Gachuhi |
December 19th 2020 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
PhD graduands after the conferment of doctorate degrees by JKUAT Chancellor Prof. Joseph Mathu Ndung’u.
The government and players in various industries have been urged to closely work with academic institutions to commercialise innovations by students.
Jomo Kenyatta University of Science and Technology (Jkuat) Chancellor Prof Joseph Mathu yesterday recognised various innovators that have been in the frontline with Covid-19 solutions.
“Among the inventions are ventilators, hand washing machines and Covid-19 dashboard used in predicting infection trends,” Mathu said.
Mathu spoke at Jkuat grounds during the institution’s 35th and Pan African University’s (PAU) 6th joint graduation ceremony which was held virtually with a select number of attendees.