State officials best suited to chair school boards
Reading Time: 3 minutes County Commissioners are set to provide leadership to the County Education Boards (CEB) upon the enactment of the Basic Education […]
Teach students to make, not copy, notes from books
Reading Time: 3 minutes Our teachers at Kivaywa Secondary School, in the early 1980s, were keen to know whether we were making optimal use […]
School holidays are important for sound learning
Reading Time: 3 minutes About ten years ago, some parents of children in a private boarding primary school in Kakamega County were unhappy that […]
Blend education and training in journalism courses
Reading Time: 2 minutes Sometimes in the 1980s, a student who had qualified to join university declined to take up her position, saying she […]
Playwrights are important for education value
Reading Time: 3 minutes I often ask young Kenyans to tell me how many playwrights whose books they read, apart from the set book […]
Journalism has ignored writing on public service
Reading Time: 2 minutes Media houses have dedicated pages to cover important public policy areas such as the economy, sports and education on a […]
Support learners with learning difficulties
Reading Time: 3 minutes In principle, children whose parents are well educated have a higher propensity to learn. Everything around them has educational value. […]
Why remedial classes have lost educational value
Reading Time: 2 minutes Last week, Principal Secretary for Basic Education, Dr Belio Kipsang, reiterated ban on the version of remedial teaching that most […]