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Wachira Kigotho

Private schools not better than public: Report

Most private school managers weed out students who are disabled and slow learners.

By Wachira Kigotho 2 years ago

Private schools not better than public: Report

How boarding school teenagers are starved of nutrients

How boarding school teenagers are starved of nutrients

By Wachira Kigotho 2 years ago

Parents 'may not be having the right picture' of boarding schools

Parents 'may not be having the right picture' of boarding schools

By Wachira Kigotho 2 years ago

Hidden costs undermine schooling in ASAL areas

Hidden costs undermine schooling in ASAL areas

By Wachira Kigotho 3 years ago

Why Kenyan nurses flunked a simple English test

Nurses who failed the tests only had rudimentary literacy skills that could not have allowed them to work where English is the dominant language.

By Wachira Kigotho 3 years ago

Why Kenyan nurses flunked a simple English test

Schoolgirls from poor homes bore heavier brunt in Covid lockdown

School closures thought to have widened inequality in terms of risks and vulnerabilities to access to education.

By Wachira Kigotho 3 years ago

Schoolgirls from poor homes bore heavier brunt in Covid lockdown

Critical issues in our education system that CBC may not solve

Most of the funds allocated to the education sector is lost through inefficiency.

By Wachira Kigotho 3 years ago

Critical issues in our education system that CBC may not solve

Special Report: Experts reveal barriers to implementation of CBC in Africa

One of the reasons behind the failure of CBC is an over-bearing African culture and students’ pervasive fear of their teachers.

By Wachira Kigotho 3 years ago

Special Report: Experts reveal barriers to implementation of CBC in Africa

Special report: Importing failure from countries offering CBC

The logic of borrowing or importing the competency-based curricula was not based on success stories in their source countries.

By Wachira Kigotho 3 years ago

Special report: Importing failure from countries offering CBC

Top challenges threatening the implementation of competency based learning

New curriculum’s philosophical standpoint is based on a concept developed by the European Qualifications Framework.

By Wachira Kigotho 3 years ago

Top challenges threatening the implementation of competency based learning

Glaring gaps in computer science classes hitting hard on job skills

Outside universities, the study observed critical skill gaps within the ICT industry itself, especially in telecommunications.

By Wachira Kigotho 4 years ago

Glaring gaps in computer science classes hitting hard on job skills

Poor learning foundations manifest in KCSE results

Low academic performance among students in secondary schools is usually caused by learning deficit take-over from primary education.

By Wachira Kigotho 4 years ago

Poor learning foundations manifest in KCSE results

Boost investment in pre-school to ensure quality learning outcome

Beyond low enrollment levels, pre-school education in Sub-Saharan Africa suffers acute shortage of trained teachers

By Wachira Kigotho 4 years ago

Boost investment in pre-school to ensure quality learning outcome

Why uneducated urban children are ticking time bomb

According to a World Bank study, Nairobi has only 185 public childhood education centres and over 2,700 informal daycare centres

By Wachira Kigotho 5 years ago

Why uneducated urban children are ticking time bomb

Tale of over-age students whose potential is held back by poverty

North Eastern has the highest rate of over-age primary school children, while Nairobi records the lowest rate

By Wachira Kigotho 5 years ago

Tale of over-age students whose potential is held back by poverty

School completion rates drop as poverty stings households

Only one per cent and two per cent of the group had never been to school in Central and Nairobi respectively.

By Wachira Kigotho 5 years ago

School completion rates drop as poverty stings households

How Kenya shot itself in the foot with PhDs target

In 2014, the CUE hurriedly published ambitious but unachievable targets to raise the bar of university lecturers to PhD holders.

By Wachira Kigotho 6 years ago

How Kenya shot itself in the foot with PhDs target

Behind the smoke: Probing annual school burning frenzy

With the many commissions and task forces formed to probe school strikes since 1970s, why has the Education ministry failed to find a lasting solution

By Wachira Kigotho 6 years ago

Behind the smoke: Probing annual school burning frenzy

How safe are girls in boarding schools?

No student, male or female, should have to undergo violence of any kind, or risk their lives to get an education

By Wachira Kigotho 6 years ago

How safe are girls in boarding schools?

Paradox of ghost technical colleges, big dreams

The renewed push by the government to expand technical education is a realisation that youth unemployment is not just an economic issue but a...

By Wachira Kigotho 6 years ago

Paradox of ghost technical colleges, big dreams

Shock of widening education gaps in marginalised communities

The Ogiek, Sengwer, Ajuran, Sakuye, Makonde, Wakifundi and Waswaka still in colonial levels of education.

By Wachira Kigotho 6 years ago

Shock of widening education gaps in marginalised communities

Away with your Mickey Mouse degrees, students tell universities

Students are increasingly becoming selective in their choices of degrees and where they want to study them.

By Wachira Kigotho 6 years ago

Away with your Mickey Mouse degrees, students tell universities

Three-quarters of grade two pupils unable to count beyond 80

The problem with basic education in Sub-Saharan Africa is that nearly 90 per cent of children enrolled are leaving school without having acquired basi

By Wachira Kigotho 6 years ago

Three-quarters of grade two pupils unable to count beyond 80

Why universities should promote research at all academic levels

Becoming a world-class university is not achieved by a mere self-declaration -- this elite status is earned through comprehensive research

By Wachira Kigotho 6 years ago

Why universities should promote research at all academic levels

Is State forcing back harambee school system on parents?

The system of pooling resources by communities started after Kenya’s independence in 1963

By Wachira Kigotho 6 years ago

Is State forcing back harambee school system on parents?

Teaching staff now mere labourers in universities

New university market model has created an academically disinterested audience whose preoccupation is instantaneous value of their money

By Wachira Kigotho 6 years ago

Teaching staff now mere labourers in universities

Why universities are killing Vision 2030 dreams

Irony of a development blueprint pegged on more teachers and marketers than engineers and software developers

By Wachira Kigotho 6 years ago

Why universities are killing Vision 2030 dreams

Why latest curriculum opens new chapter

New syllabus will from January next year replace the current 8-4-4 system of education

By Wachira Kigotho 6 years ago

Why latest curriculum opens new chapter

Plagiarism: The rising threat to academic integrity

Few people outside academia could believe that it would take less than 10 minutes to order for a dissertation in any subject.

By Wachira Kigotho 7 years ago

Plagiarism: The rising threat to academic integrity

How inspiring real life stories turn poor students to A listers

Students who watched Queen of Katwe just before they sat mathematics papers in Form Four and Six national examinations performed better than their peers who had watched Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.

By Wachira Kigotho 7 years ago

How inspiring real life stories turn poor students to A listers

Irony of schooled Kenyans who cannot read, write or count

Kenya must rethink how to use the billions it spends annually on education and focus on ensuring its school going children learn

By Wachira Kigotho 7 years ago

Irony of schooled Kenyans who cannot read, write or count

Deadly craze for good grades and the zombies it churns out

Number one or bust Belief that failing KCPE is a gateway to a life of misery drives young souls to their early graves

By Wachira Kigotho 7 years ago

Deadly craze for good grades and the zombies it churns out

Why the State is as guilty as arsonists burning our schools

The Ministry of Education, boards of governors and parents and teachers associations cannot escape blame for failure to provide safer school environment for the children.

By Wachira Kigotho 7 years ago

Why the State is as guilty as arsonists burning our schools

Free education means nothing if it's bereft of quality and equity

Secondary education is a key plank to escape from global poverty, but Kenya’s basic education lacks equity and inclusivity, while progress towards quality is at a snail’s pace.

By Wachira Kigotho 7 years ago

Free education means nothing if it's bereft of quality and equity

Why nonsense of ‘my varsity is better than yours’ must end now

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By Wachira Kigotho 7 years ago

Why nonsense of ‘my varsity is better than yours’ must end now

Why education reforms must begin, end with talent creation

The future of the workplace is with free agents; schools must therefore focus on promoting multi-career learning.

By Wachira Kigotho 7 years ago

Why education reforms must begin, end with talent creation

East or west, our institutions of higher learning must shape up or ship out

As focus shifts to oncoming Africa-China education partnership, what exactly can our institutions of higher learning learn from the world’s next top research frontier?

By Wachira Kigotho 7 years ago

East or west, our institutions of higher learning must shape up or ship out

How vicious budget setbacks are jolting basic education financing

Despite the promises made by governments in the region, in real terms, investments in basic education have flat-lined and too often money invested has led to disappointing results

By Wachira Kigotho 7 years ago

How vicious budget setbacks are jolting basic education financing

One million reasons why we should keep girls in school

Despite major milestones that Kenya has made to encourage teenage mothers go back to school, such students end up dropping out into a life of misery.

By Wachira Kigotho 7 years ago

One million reasons why we should keep girls in school

Why all Class One pupils were never going to get free laptops

There is a misconception that by simply giving learners tablets, educational access issues will be resolved and transformation will occur.

By Wachira Kigotho 7 years ago

Why all Class One pupils were never going to get free laptops

Under-employed graduates sign of bad curriculum and economy

Surveys show the number of university graduates and students has more than doubled in the last 15 years but most Kenyan degree holders are competing for low-value jobs in the jua kali sector.

By Wachira Kigotho 7 years ago

Under-employed graduates sign of bad curriculum and economy

How nursery school teacher was hired to develop new curriculum

Even after over 50 years of independence, Kenyans seem incapable of drafting an elementary curriculum for lower primary children.

By Wachira Kigotho 7 years ago

How nursery school teacher was hired to develop new curriculum

Curriculum shift calls for further investment in quality of teaching

Kenyans and more so for parents and children, should ask themselves whether the clock has switched back in time to 1985.

By Wachira Kigotho 7 years ago

Curriculum shift calls for further investment in quality of teaching

Curriculum shift calls for further investment in quality of teaching

There is no new system that would change the way teaching and learning is done unless there is quality assurance

By Wachira Kigotho 7 years ago

Curriculum shift calls for further investment in quality of teaching

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