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Kenya: Do Something, Busia Teachers Tell Uhuru
The Star, 8 September 2015
President Uhuru Kenyatta has been asked to cut short his trip to Italy and address the teachers' pay crisis. Read more »
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Kenya: KNUT Wants School Heads to Join Ongoing Teachers' Strike
Nation, 8 September 2015
Headteachers should join in the ongoing strike, a union official has said. Read more »
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Kenya: Protesting Teachers Take to Streets
Nation, 8 September 2015
Teachers across the country on Monday defied their employer and took to the streets to demand higher pay as their strike paralysed learning in public schools for the third working… Read more »
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Kenya: Don't Budge, Kisumu Unions Tell Teachers
The Star, 8 September 2015
The Teachers' Service Commission should stop issuing threats and instead pay us, the unions have said. Read more »
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Kenya: Negotiate With Teachers to End Strike, Says Bishop
The Star, 8 September 2015
The African Independent Pentecostal Church of Africa leader has urged the government to resolve teachers' strikes once and for all. Read more »
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Kenya: Teachers Strike Now Enters Second Week
The Star, 8 September 2015
Teachers countrywide ignored sack threats by the Teachers Service Commission and vowed to continue with the strike that entered week two yesterday. Read more »
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Kenya: State Can't Spend All Its Revenue on Wages
The Star, 8 September 2015
Last week, Kenya National Union of Teachers secretary general Wilson Sossion gave reasons why it and the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers think the government can… Read more »
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Kenya: Sh400 Billion 'Losses to Graft' Can Pay Tutors
The Star, 8 September 2015
The state loses Sh400 billion annually to corruption and that could pay teachers, ODM national treasurer Timothy Bosire has said. Read more »
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Kenya: Don't Listen to Tsc, KNUT and Kuppet Tell High Court
Nation, 7 September 2015
Two unions have asked the High Court not to give audience to Teachers Service Commission until it effects previous orders to raise teachers' salaries. Read more »
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Kenya: KNUT Tells Off Nzomo Over Sack
The Star, 7 September 2015
A teachers' union has told off the Teachers Service Commission chairperson Lydia Nzomo over threats to sack its members on strike. The Kenya National Union of Teachers chairperson… Read more »
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Kenya: Make Teachers and TSC Meet to Resolve Strike, President Told
The Star, 7 September 2015
A politician has asked President Uhuru Kenyatta to resolve the disagreement between teachers and the Teachers' Service Commission to end the strike. Teachers began their strike on… Read more »
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Kenya: Public Schools Remain Shut for Second Week
Capital FM, 7 September 2015
Public schools remain closed for the second week running even as teachers dared the Teacher Service Commission (TSC) to sack all those taking part in the nationwide strike, saying… Read more »
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Kenya: Kuppet Storms Into Kapsabet School
The Star, 7 September 2015
All public secondary schools in Nandi county should be closed, Kuppet branch officials have said. Read more »
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Kenya: Sossion Leads Teachers in Fresh Demos As TSC Sack Threat Ignored
The Star, 7 September 2015
Teachers in several counties demonstrated on Monday over their salary increase stalemate, ignoring a TSC sack threat over their strike. Read more »
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Kenya: Stop Intimidation, KNUT Tells Employer
Nation, 6 September 2015
Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) maintains the teachers' strike is still on and that no amount of intimidation will push them to call it off. Read more »
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Kenya: Striking Teachers to Receive Warning Letters
Nation, 6 September 2015
The Teachers Service Commission on Sunday instructed county directors to issue warning letters to striking teachers. Read more »
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Kenya: Kuppet Tells Teachers to Ignore Tsc Sack Threats, Calls for Countrywide Demonstrations
Nation, 6 September 2015
The Kenya Post-Primary Union of Teachers (Kuppet) has advised its members to ignore a sacking threat issued by the Teachers' Service Commission on Saturday. Read more »
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Kenya: Use Dialogue Not Strike, Bishop Urges Teachers
CISA, 4 September 2015
Bishop Maurice Muhatia Makumba, Chairman of Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) - Commission for Education and Religious Education has urged the education stakeholders to… Read more »
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Kenya: Salary Raise Will Distort Pay Figures, Argues Ministry
Nation, 5 September 2015
The justification for not increasing teachers' pay, is that it will distort the public service pay structure, the government says. Read more »
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Kenya: Devolve Education to Stop Teacher Strikes, Says Mvurya
The Star, 5 September 2015
The state should devolve education to end perennial strikes by teachers, Kwale Governor Salim Mvurya has said. Read more »