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By OUMA WANZALA Daily Nation The new education system developed to replace the discredited 8-4-4 could finally be implemented in May on a pilot basis in lower primary schools, documents seen by the Sunday Nation reveal. The system, which places emphasis on continuous assessment tests (CATs) over one-off examinations, will then be rolled out in January next year covering nursery, Standard One, Two and Three. The revelation comes ahead of a major conference on the curriculum scheduled for January 30 that will discuss the proposed system and schedules. In 2019, the system is expected to be rolled out in Standard Four to Six and in 2020 it will cover Standard Seven, Eight and Form One. In 2021, the system will be extended to Form Two only and in the following year it will cover Form Three. In 2023, it will be rolled out in Form Four. The new system replaces the current Standard One to Form Four with Grade 1 to Grade 12. It has been categorised into three phases: Early Years Education cover...

Hivisasa News Two Kenyans, 90 Somalis deported from America by Wendy Kay Two Kenyans and 90 Somalis have been deported from the US a four days after Donald Trump was sworn into office. Trump campaigned on a strict policy on illegal immigrants. The deportees arrived at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on Wednesday. It is not yet clear why they were deported.

BBC. The civil rights activist John Lewis questioned Donald Trump's right to be president - then saw three of his books soar to the top of Amazon's best-seller list. John Lewis last week said he would boycott the presidential inauguration in protest at Mr Trump. Mr Trump responded with typical gusto - via a series of angry tweets. And the publicity has resulted in Mr Lewis' books topping Amazon's bestseller list in America. John Lewis has represented the state of Georgia in America's House of Representatives since 1987. Along with Martin Luther King, he was one of the key leaders of America's civil rights movement in the 1960s which called for an end to racial segregation and was beaten by state troopers during the 1965 civil rights march in Selma, Alabama. Ahead of Donald Trump's official inauguration as US President on Saturday, Mr Lewis told America's NBC News : "I don't see this president-elect as a legitimate president." Democrat nomin...

We will nullify irregular degrees – Matiang’i By  Moses Ngugi For Citizen Digital Published on  15 January 2017 Education Cabinet Secretary, Fred Matiang'i, speaking at a thanks giving ceremony at Makini School, Nairobi. Photo/January 15, 2017. Education Cabinet Secretary Dr Fred Matiang’i has reiterated the government’s commitment to sanitize the education sector in the country. Speaking at a thanksgiving ceremony in Makini School, Nairobi on Sunday, the education CS said that his ministry would not hesitate in nullifying university degrees conferred on dubious grounds. Matiang’i said it is ‘shameful’ for political leaders to forge their academic qualifications for the purpose of qualifying for particular elective posts. “It is shameful to find people in public leadership, they know them and their God, because God sees through us, that they sat in any one’s University classroom. They know they did not qualify for Unive...

By Reuters For Citizen Digital Mesut Ozil is ready to sign a new contract with Arsenal but the attacking midfielder wants to know if manager Arsene Wenger is staying at the club beyond this season. Wenger’s contract expires at the end of the current season, while Ozil and team mate Alexis Sanchez both have 18 months left on their deals. “I feel very, very happy at Arsenal and have let the club know I would be willing to extend. The fans want me to stay, and now it’s only down to the club,” Ozil told German football magazine Kicker. “The club knows I am here mainly because of Arsene Wenger, who brought me here and whose trust I have. The club also knows that I want clarity about what the manager is doing.” Ozil, who joined the North London club in 2013, has been criticised by former Arsenal players including Thierry Henry, who said the German international was “holding the club hostage” with their wage demands. “Everyone has a right t...

By MIke Mswati Monday, Curious about the hilarious incident in which a Bomet woman caused drama, protesting her husband’s obsession with his mother’s food, Crazy Monday went round asking random men their preferences between their wives’ or mothers’ cooking. Interestingly, a relatively huge percentage confessed they like their mother’s food more than their wives’. For some, like Olago, he like his mother’s culinary skills because, among other reasons, she prepares varieties. Drama as wife storms mum-in-law's house to protest husband's obsession with her food. “My mother’s any day! Unlike my wife, she prepares ‘proper meals’. I prefer her cooking because she prepares more traditional, tasty, hearty meals than my wife,”. Other men said their mothers hardly serve ‘ready meals’, are diverse with not just the delicacies, but cooking styles. “Good thing with my mother is that she knows and cooks what I li...

Visit www.ed ucation.go.ke and follow this procedure. 1. Select the county and sub-county you sat KCPE then key in your index number and Submit. 2. Click on the link named “admission letter” at the bottom of the page for a copy of your admission letter. 3. Use the printer icon to print or download icon to download to your computer. 4. Get your primary school’s headteacher to endorse the letter and stamp it in the space provided. 5. Finally, present it for admission together with a certified copy of birth certificate. Gooduck.

By Geoffrey Oduor standard digital A teachers union now wants results for all the 574,125 candidates who sat last year’s Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations recalled immediately. Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) says after several days of investigations and consultation with examiners deployed to administer and mark the examinations, it is convinced that due process was not followed in marking and releasing of the 2016 results. The union leadership argues that the results released last month do not reflect the true performance of the candidates, citing clear breaches of marking processes that were overlooked by the Kenya National Examination Council (Knec). “We were shocked at the curve. It is not a normal curve. So we launched investigations as a union and we have consulted widely, even inside government, and the narrative is the same – that these results are not a true reflection of the candidates’ performance,” said Knut S...

The Universities have been rated as Defunct and fake. They include; 1.Kibabi University College 2.Kirinyaga University 3.Maasai Mara University 4.Machakos University 5.Murang'a University 6 Rongo University 7.South Eastern Kenya University 8.Taita Taveta University 9.Technical University of Kenya 10.University of Kabianga 11.Karatina University 12.University of Eldoret