Outstanding Teacher category finalist Peter Tabichi from Keriko Mixed Day Secondary School Nakuru County emerged as the winner of Global Teacher Prize at the 2022 Commonwealth Education Awards.

Twenty educators and projects have made the 2022 Commonwealth Education Awards shortlist for their positive impact on students, teachers, and education systems across the Commonwealth.

The twenty shortlisted entries were chosen by an expert panel of judges in the following categories:

• Rethinking Education for Innovation
• Rethinking Education for Work
• Rethinking Education for Sustainability
• Education as Pathways to Peace
• Education for Inclusion
• Commonwealth Outstanding Teacher or School Leader

2022 Commonwealth Education Awards Shortlist

Full details of all the shortlisted entries and categories are listed below, in no particular order.

Rethinking Education for Innovation

• Basic Education Quality Improvement Programme (BEQUIP) (Kenya)
• Peepul-Chief Minister’s CM Rise (India)
• The Book Club – Manyatta Primary School (Kenya)
• Zenafri (Nigeria)
• The Kalsom Movement (Malaysia)

Rethinking Education for Work

• Educate! (Uganda)
• Triple threat: researcher, innovator, entrepreneur – Keningau Vocational College (Malaysia)
• Navonmesh Prasar (Communicating Innovation) (India)
• M-PESA Foundation Academy (Kenya)

Rethinking Education for Sustainability

• Wild Shaale (India)
• TARA Akshar (India)

Education as pathways to Peace

• AMANI Clubs (Kenya)
• Afrogiveness Centre Project (Cameroon)

Education for Inclusion

• Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) (India)
• No One Out (NOO) (Kenya)
• Autism Disorder Project (South Africa)

Commonwealth Outstanding Teacher or School Leader

• Amos Nyameino (Kenya), Head of ICT and Innovations Dpt at Kasigau Girls Secondary School
• Mohd Sirhajwan Bin Idek (Malaysia), Keningau Vocational College
• Leonida Chepkorir Soi (Kenya), Teachers’ Service Commission-Moi Forces Academy Mombassa
• Peter Mokaya Tabichi (Kenya), Classroom Teacher, Keriko Mixed Day Secondary School