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##CBC: Education stakeholders are divided over the implementation of Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC), with the costs and manner of implementation being the top concerns.
##CBC: KUPPET wants Junior Secondary Schools be domiciled in the current Secondary Schools.
Akello Misori: “We must be accommodative of the fact that changes are bound to have challenges. Our primary school setups cannot accommodate the secondary school model. They lack the necessary infrastructure.”
##CBC: Private universities now want Junior Secondary as proposed in the new Competency Based Curriculum (CBC)’s 2-6-3-3-3 system domiciled in primary schools instead of secondary schools.
##CBC: Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) Secretary General Collins Oyuu has said that nobody should interfere with the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC).
The SG argues that the government should heavily invest in the CBC saying that it is one of the best curriculums Kenya ought to adopt.
“At inception the KNUT rejected the CBC because we wanted everything to be put in place to help in its implementation and adoption,” Oyuu stated.
##CBC: The National Association of Private Universities in Kenya (NAPUK) says hosting Junior Secondary in primary schools will give room for primary school teachers who have upgraded to university degree qualifications to adequately support Junior Secondary and be compensated.
##Teachers’ Medical Cover: The Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet) wants members to choose from several medical insurance providers instead of being locked to one (Minet).
Kuppet assistant national treasurer Ronald Tonui: “We want the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF), being a government body, to be appointed as an option to AON Minet or any other medical insurer that will be picked in a competitive process,”
##The bottle 🍾: Central region leads in alcoholism, drug abuse in civil service. Research findings show that 12 out of the 40 people identified during the survey were from the central region, while the remaining 28 cases were distributed amongst Eastern, Coast, North Eastern, Nyanza, Rift Valley and Western regions.
##Sad News: Missing teacher found dead in suspected poaching deal gone sour:
Police in Baringo County are investigating the death of a primary school teacher who went missing for days only for his decomposed body to be discovered in a bush, many kilometres away.
On Saturday, October 29, Luka Kiplagat, 52, who was a teacher at Kaplelwo in Mogotio sub-county, left his home in Kabarbesi village and told his relatives that he was heading to Nakuru for some errands and would be back the following day.
##Defilement: An Eldoret court has sentenced a 33-year-old man to 40 years imprisonment after he was found guilty of repeatedly defiling his 13-year-old daughter under the influence of alcohol and drug abuse.
Edwin Mule who appeared before Eldoret senior resident magistrate Barnabas Kiptoo was charged with incest, an offence he committed against his own daughter two years ago.
The accused, who the court described as unfit to live with any child, shocked the court when he pleaded with the magistrate to give him a lenient sentence.
## Cabinet Shapes Hustler Fund
Loans to range from Ksh 500 to Ksh 50,000
Loans to be based on borrower’s credit score
Programme targets 250,000 youth entrepreneurs
Interest to be capped at 8% per annum