This story by Sharon Runge, Executive Director of Kenya Connect, was originally published on Level Up Village on March 21, 2016. Who could imagine that a group of year 7s in Kenya with no electricity ...

Back in 2018, a story went viral about Owura Kwadwo Hottish, a middle-school teacher in Kumasi, Ghana. What was remarkable about this story was the fact that Hottish was teaching his students how to ...

Tha standard of education in Kenya has worsened by the years. The initial 8.4.4. system that equipped students with many life skills eg Art and Craft, Music was scrapped. Free education has been led ...

Kenya’s education sector has — for the last six decades — been subjected to multiple fact-finding missions to reform a system that now stands at the crossroads of transition to a new ...

NAIROBI: The Kenya Curriculum Development Institute has announced the process of reviewing the curriculum and the education system. The beginning point should be scrutinising the reports and ...

On March 15, President Peter Salovey joined Yale alumni who are leaders in Africa for the “Yale-Strathmore University Leadership Forum: The Nexus Between Education & Impactful Leadership.” The forum, ...

His name is Peter Tabichi, he is a Franciscan brother, he has been teaching math and other subjects for 12 years, and he recently received an award of 1 million dollars. It’s called the Varkey ...

A Kenyan teacher has won the prestigious 2025 African Union Continental Best Teacher Award. In a statement on October 3, the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) announced that Jepkosgei Chemoiwa, a ...

Whenever I get depressed with the state of the world, I will always think back on my summer spent in Lodwar, Kenya. While the world remains rightly preoccupied with the strength of the delta COVID ...

Earlier this month when head teacher Oguttu went to the bank to withdraw funds disbursed by the government, he was shocked by the amount allocated to his school. “I was expecting more than KSh100,000 ...