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TSC Headquarters

PREMIUM Teacher promotion race on as 126,000 eye 34,000 slots

TSC faces huge demand as thousands compete for limited career advancement slots.


  1. How the solar revolution is transforming agro processing

    Africa doesn’t just need to export more. It needs to process more. And affordable green energy could make that possible.

    DN COAST FOOD BASKET 1907J
  2. MPs demand investigations over missing funds in stalled Kisii technical colleges

    Questions mount over stalled projects at two Kisii technical colleges.

    Finance Bill
  3. PREMIUM How varsity funding model confusion has hit new students, parents

    Union boss says President and CS giving conflicting views on financing education.

     Bomet University
  4. PREMIUM Two years after fire killed 21, Endarasha survivors seek answers

    School fire survivors still bear the scars and carry the weight of the trauma.

  5. TVET tutors issue 21-day ultimatum over exams, curricula and medical cover

    Tutors threaten industrial action over persistent challenges in the sector.

    Kepher Oguwi
  6. State extends Helb applications deadline

    Some eligible students and trainees had failed to apply within the initial deadline.

    Julius Ogamba
  7. PREMIUM Court orders Meru to disclose details of 230 ECDE hires

    The petitioners are alleging widespread nepotism, discrimination, and demands for Sh400,000 bribes.

  8. PREMIUM 1,631 TSC jobs up for grabs

    TSC re-advertised 1,631 promotional vacancies for school administrators.

    TSC Headquarters
  9. PREMIUM Varsity students to wait longer for decision on funding, says PS

    The first-year students began reporting last week amid a transition in the funding system.

  10. PREMIUM Teachers’ growing impatience with State House promises

    Tutors say pledges made by Ruto on promotions, housing, career progression, medical cover yet to be fully implemented.

    President William Ruto
  11. PREMIUM No money for campus: Why some students are stranded at home as universities funding woes deepen

    Admission letters promise places, but fees and accommodation costs keep students at home.

  12. PREMIUM Policy questions persist as Sakaja’s Dishi na County hits 85 million meals

    Programme serves more than 324,000 learners in Nairobi, but its long-term future hangs in the balance.

    Johnson Sakaja and William Ruto
  13. PREMIUM Kuppet hit by string of cases over leadership, elections

    Milemba’s dual roles, disputed Kuppet polls fuel court battles.

    Omboko Milemba
  14. Moi University to fire 75 senior lecturers as UASU threatens strike

    Union has accused management of replacing experienced academics with part-timers.

    Moi University
  15. EAC states push for harmonised education systems to deepen integration

    Over 600 delegates gathered in Nairobi to push for the EAC Common Education Area.

    PS Beatrice Inyangala
  16. PREMIUM Why Court blocked fresh bid to transfer ECDE teachers to TSC

    The legal dispute centres on who should recruit, employ, discipline and pay ECDE teachers under devolved education system.

  17. PREMIUM Principals lament struggle of running cash-strapped schools

    School heads want the rates that were set 12 years ago reviewed to reflect current realities.

    Head teachers
  18. Dishing out TSC letters a violation of meritocracy

    As an independent constitutional commission, the TSC should not be at the beck and call of politicians.

  19. PREMIUM Schools get Sh18.5bn but capitation still 28pc short

    The latest disbursement has still left the Basic Learning institutions with only 72 per cent of the annual allocation.

    students
  20. Boost training to enhance lower-level teachers’ skills

    Teachers tasked with laying the foundation for numeracy in pre-primary education are struggling to master the skills needed to teach effectively.

  21. PREMIUM How Ngiriambu Girls students are gearing up for university, careers

    The experience also taught them the importance of hard work, patience, creativity and determination.

  22. Numeracy errors deepen as children progress through lower primary

    CEMASTEA finds learners struggle with increasingly complex numeracy errors by Grade Three.

    education reforms
  23. PREMIUM Schools reopen under debt, funding pressure as shortest, final-term exams loom

    For schools already struggling with debt, securing supplies on credit is becoming harder.

    Schools closed
  24. Merge unviable schools

    The Cluster 4 learners are more likely to drop out of school.

  25. Silas Mwirigi: Broken system behind surge in scholarship fraud

    Fraud remains fraud, and funds for genuinely vulnerable students must be protected.

    Finland scandal protests
  26. Christine Chege: School meals can become a powerful driver of food-system transformation

    Across Africa, about 71.5 million students receive daily school meals.

    School feeding programme
  27. PREMIUM Revealed: How new CBE university system will work

    The competency-based framework for university education is designed to align with CBE.

  28. PREMIUM More freshers, less money: Why parents face higher varsity costs amid Sh74bn funding gap

    Higher Education Loans Board and Universities Fund face funding deficits of Sh57 billion and Sh17 billion, respectively.

    Helb offices in Nairobi
  29. Liankor Jairus: Discipline lessons for learners in Kenyan schools

    The latest figures presented by the Ministry of Education suggest that the country has experienced a worrying wave of school unrest since April this year.

    Burnt dorm