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Kangema High School is a Boys’ only boarding high school that is located in Muguru Location in Kangema constituency of Murang’a County; within the Central Region of Kenya. Get to know the school’s KCSE Results, KNEC Code, contacts, Admissions, physical location, directions, history, Form one selection criteria, School Fees and Uniforms. Also find a beautiful collation of images from the school’s scenery; including structures, signage, students, teachers and many more.

KANGEMA HIGH SCHOOL’S KCSE RESULTS

Individual candidates can check their KCSE results by sending an SMS with their full index number (11digits) followed by the word KCSE. The SMS can be sent from any subscriber’s line (Safaricom, Airtel or any other) to 20076. For example, send the SMS in the format 23467847002KCSE to 20076. There should be no space left between the index number and the word KCSE.

One can also download the whole school’s KCSE results by Visiting the Official KNEC exams portal; https://www.knec-portal.ac.ke/.  This one requires the school’s log in credentials.

Finally, candidates can visit the school for their results. This is usually a day after the results have been released. It is important that you check your result slip to ensure there are no errors on it. Be keen to see that details such as your name, index number and sex are accurate. In case of any discrepancy, please notify your principal or KNEC immediately for correction.

KANGEMA HIGH SCHOOL’S KCSE PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS/ GRADES COUNT

The school has maintained a good run in performance at the Kenya National Examinations Council, KNEC, exams. In the 2019 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education, KCSE, exams the school posted good results to rank among the best schools in the County. This is how and where you can receive the KCSE results.

Here is a list of the KCSE 2019 best 10 schools in Murang’a County: 

KANGEMA HIGH SCHOOL’S BASIC INFO & CONTACTS AT A GLANCE

In need of more information about the school? Worry not. Use any of the contacts below for inquiries and/ or clarifications. Here is a collation of the school’s basic details:

• SCHOOL’S NAME: Kangema High School
• SCHOOL’S TYPE: Boys’ only boarding school
• SCHOOL’S CATEGORY: Extra County school.
• SCHOOL’S LEVEL: Secondary
• SCHOOL’S KNEC CODE: 10229101
• SCHOOL’S OWNERSHIP STATUS: Public/ Government owned
• SCHOOL’S PHONE CONTACT:
• SCHOOL’S POSTAL ADDRESS: P.O. Box 63 kangema, Murang’a
• SCHOOL’S EMAIL ADDRESS:
• SCHOOL’S WEBSITE:

KANGEMA HIGH SCHOOL’S VISION

KANGEMA HIGH SCHOOL’S MISSION

KANGEMA HIGH SCHOOL’S MOTTO

KANGEMA HIGH SCHOOL’S FORM ONE SELECTION CRITERIA & ADMISSIONS

Being a public school, form one admissions are done by the Ministry of Education. Vacancies are available on competitive basis. Those seeking admissions can though directly contact the school or pay a visit for further guidelines.

You have been selected to join form one at high school? Well. Congratulations. In case you need to see your admission letter, then click on this link to download it; Official Form one admission letter

The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) has criticized the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) for tampering with the payroll of teachers by halting the Sacco loan remittances and other third party deductions.

The teachers union had while effecting the move said it would held cushion teachers during the Covid-19 pandemic.

“I call on TSC not to tamper with the payroll of teachers by halting the Sacco loan remittances and other third party deductions, it will hurt both the teachers and the Saccos,” said Knut Secretary General Wilson Sossion in a statement.

Rival union, the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) had proposed that TSC stop statutory/loan deductions during Covid-19 pandemic.

“KUPPET proposal that TSC should stop statutory/loan deductions during the pandemic period, and treated with contempt, unless such proposal originates from SACCO management who are teachers,” said the outspoken unionist.

Defending SACCOs capacity, Sossion said that teachers’ SACCOs in Kenya have turned out to be the best managed and performing on the continent among the teaching service.

“Furthermore, this proposal is not born out of any consultation all teachers’ SACCOs were started by KNUT, and we cannot afford or allow any action that will see them go down. It is our duty and responsibility to defend, protect and continue oiling the wheels of SACCOs and Cooperative movement,” added the unionist.

He said that the Union will not allow the Commission to interfere with the teacher’s, SACCOs arrangement as this will have far reaching repercussions in post Covid-19 era.

“The National Executive Council (NEC) of KNUT, after wide consultations with members and teachers, hereby advices strongly, not to tamper with the payroll in whichever way whatsoever,” Sossion ruled.

SACCOs, he said are economic lifeline of teachers and their dependents, and if their operations are halted through failure to effect loan deductions, the future of teachers and their families will be ruined for ever.

Sossion added that besides being illegal and retrogressive in nature, the proposal by the Commission is bound to roll-back the gains already made by teachers and their SACCOs.

“Moreover, the proposal did not go through the mandatory requirement of consultation and public participation. If teachers are paid full salaries, there is no logical reason to stop effecting statutory/loan or SACCO deductions and other third party deductions,” said the unionist.

The letter is copied to line Cabinet secretaries including Simon Chelugui, (Labour and Social Protection, Prof. George O. Magoha, (Education, Science & Technology) and

Dr. Lydia Nzomo, Chairperson, Teachers Service Commission.

TSC certificate is an important document for any teacher in Kenya. Whether you need employment or promotion you need to have a TSC Certificate. This article guides tutors on how to replace their TSC certificate if it is misplaced, lost, damaged, destroyed or want to change  names. The requirements of TSC certificate replacement have been provided below

What is a TSC Certificate?

A TSC certificate is a document issued by the Teachers Service Commission after completion of teaching studies and upon registration that serves as an official identification document for any government employed teacher in Kenya.

Requirements for TSC Certificate Replacement

• Must pay a non-refundable fee of ksh. 2055
• Bank  payment slip
• ID
• Incase of change of names an affidavit or marriage certificate must be provided
• All applications must be done online. NO PAPER DOCUMENTS

How to apply for TSC Certificate Replacement

• To apply for replacement visit: http://www.teachersonline.go.ke/RegintroDC.aspx
• Enter you ID number and Surname
• Click Next
• Follow the procedure to the end

NOTE: Make sure you have your scanned documents ready because you will need to upload them.

In 2014, Francis Tonui wanted to build his dream house.

But when he visited a contractor to find out how much it would cost, he was taken aback when he was presented with a Sh16 million Bill of Quantities.

A dejected Tonui could see his plan of owning the house of his dreams slipping through his fingers.

As the Maso Secondary School principal was scratching his head on how he could slash the huge cost of constructing a spacious eight-bedroom house, he stumbled onto a construction site, where interlocking blocks were being used.

“Upon inquiring from the contractor the materials used to make the interlocking blocks, I realised that besides cement, the other raw materials required was available in my farm in Soin ward. It opened my eyes to the fact that I could make the interlocking blocks myself,” says Tonui.

“That is how I managed to build my spacious eight-bedroom house at Sh10 million, which is Sh6 million less if I could have used conventional building blocks.”

He says interlocking blocks slash the cost of construction by almost 15 per cent due to what is known as ‘zero joints’.

“No cement is used on the joints. The interlocking blocks interlock themselves due to the ‘male and female’ sides, which fit into each other perfectly,” said Tonui.

After the completion of the house, and having been satisfied with the results, Tonui decided to venture into making interlocking blocks.

“I decided to shelve the idea of selling the certified raw material from my five-acre farm in Kapkormom village to a road construction company undertaking road construction works along the Brooke-Ainamoi-Thessalia road,” said Tonui.

He began a commercial interlocking blocks business by hiring experts and a Hydraform machine supplied to the Nyamira Ministry of Housing and Public Works (as it was known) office as part of the government’s affordable housing project.

“But after encountering delays and bureaucracies in the hiring of the Hydraform machines from Kericho, Bomet, Narok and other counties, I decided to raise Sh4 million and import my own machine from South Africa,” says Tonui.

Process

To make the interlocking blocks, the businessman mixes cement and a mixture of sand and murram at the ratio of one bag of cement to 16 wheelbarrows of the sand and murram mixture. “This must be the rate,” says Tonui.

In a day, the businessman produces 1,000 to 1,200 blocks. A work force of 10 people is required for the work.

“One of the workers operates the Hydraform machine while the rest are involved in the mixing of the raw materials and carrying the blocks to the curing area,” says Tonui.

In the curing area, the building blocks have to be stacked and kept moist by sprinkling of water twice a day and covered using a polythene sheet.

The curing process for the bricks takes at least 21 days.
Once the process is complete, the businessman sells the interlocking blocks at site at Sh30 a piece.

“In a month, I can sell up to 10,000 interlocking blocks. This earns me a profit of around Sh90,000,” said Tonui.

Tonui says a house, or any other building, constructed using interlocking blocks is stronger than any other.

“The lifespan is more than a 100 years. Due to the weight of the interlocking block which is about eight kilogrammes, even a tractor cannot smash through the wall…. Interlocking blocks are like three bricks joined together,” he says.

Tonui explains that one can distinguish a good interlocking block from the rest if it isn’t crushed when pressed down through the Hydraform machine.

“An interlocking block with the right ratio of cement and other raw materials, and is also cured well cannot crack,” he says.

1. Teachers to pay for training organized by their employer? Which other employer charges it’s employees for it’s own programs?

2. How do you start charging a teacher 6000 for a program you are supposed to actually finance? I thought every employee has a duty to improve it’s workforce?

3. How can TSC come up with modules that run for 30yrs? Is this not a way of denying teachers time to live their lives? This same employer came up with a policy against school based learning for teachers claiming that it was consuming time for serving the Kenyan child. Now miraculously, it’s coming up with modules that will be learnt for 30yrs.

4. What is the immediate benefit to the teacher once he or she completes a module? In the military, after a given training one qualifies for promotion to the next rank. Is there any correlation between training and promotions?

5. Which and where are these modules? What is the school of knowledge in each module? How relevant is it to the teacher and his/her career? By now this information should be in the public domain or at least known within teacher circles.

6. How does TSC come up with such serious measures without listening to and involving the teachers through their negotiating platforms, the unions?
This behavior from TSC is the very reason why by now teachers should be pushing to have a professional self-regulating body for teachers so as to scrap some roles from TSC. TSC should just be an employer not a regulator of matters education.

7. Someone has seen an easy kill, the same way someone came up with KEWOTA sasa wameleta TPD. The teachers payslips cannot be stretched any longer.

8. Each year, TSC has trainings for it’s secretariat staff for free. It even pays for their subsistence halafu the same institutions wants to charge the teachers who are also it’s staff. This is a joke taken too far.

There is obviously no lesser death but some deaths, more than others, descend with added malice and clearly drive a stake in the heart of society.

The death of author and journalist Ken Walibora is one such death. It was unexpected, unfair and unbelievable.
Walibora was the author of many books in Kiswahili, the most famous being Siku Njema.

In my view, his contribution to the language rivals that of Julius Nyerere, Shaaban Robert, and Wallah Bin Wallah, but I will leave the measure of his contribution to be determined by Kiswahili scholars.

Different schools

Each of the boys in our class had come from different schools from all over Kenya, and from all walks of life. Ken had come by way of Olekejuado High School but he was from Trans Nzoia, Cheranganyi to be exact.

I remember him then as a devout Christian who was later to profess Jehovah Witness convictions but with an ever-inquisitive mind.

We all knew him then as Kennedy Wafula Waliaula, and had nicknamed him «Alufa,» which was based on a reverse reading of the name «Wafula.» He was a great soccer player, a lanky boy who played the goalkeeper and was the captain of the school soccer team.

At one time, he actually broke his leg while playing for Koelel and spent six weeks with a humongous orthopaedic cast and crutches. He looked cool with it and even got a special dispensation to sit special end of term exams.

Yours truly, then called philosopher, mainly for reading huge, dog-eared novels, was the unofficial reporter for all school games and other functions and events.

At one time, we gatecrashed into a Catholic function just so that we could be within striking distance of interesting visitors from Njoro Girls High School who were easy on the eyes of the beauty-famished boys. For our troubles, six of us were sent home for two weeks.

Notable author

To complete his three A-Level subjects, Walibora also studied Kiswahili under Mr Alex Ngure, who was to become a notable author himself after publishing Utoro and Fasihi Simulizi.

Truth be told, however, we focused more on reading novels than reading textbooks.

The son of a teacher, it was evident from our discussion those days that Walibora was quite well read. His exposure to literature was however more structured, unlike some of us whose reading was more of the free reign kind.

Walibora was a genius when it came to languages. People know his prowess in Kiswahili. What they don’t know is that he could write equally well in English. Indeed English was his language of deep scholarship. He wrote his PhD in English and published several academic papers in the language.

At Koelel, he penned many poems and regaled us with many mashairi that he composed. I hope some of those early works, which he once told me he had misplaced, will be re-discovered and published posthumously.

After A-Level, Walibora trained as a probation officer at the Kenya School of Government while I pursued journalism. We used to meet while we were in different colleges in Nairobi. He envied my luck. And I felt bad about it knowing where his heart really was.

There is something to be said about the nature of abiding resilience and focus. Those with evergreen resilience always get what they ask for. Walibora never gave up the pursuit of a career in letters.

A great deal has also been said about the correlation between great grades and success.

News casting

While still working as a probation officer, Walibora eventually found his way to the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation, initially in a talk show, before gravitating into news casting. He later pursued further education at Ohio State University where he finished his PhD and later taught at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, before returning to Kenya.

Along the way, he worked for NTV as a news anchor. He was until his death a senior lecturer at Riara University in Nairobi.

When talked last year, he told me he had been charged with establishing a centre for the study of international languages at the university.

In life, however, even incidental experiences are a resource.

«I am an avid reader and good keen observer and patient listener. Like all humans, I make mistakes from time to time, regret them, and I apologise, but most importantly, I learn from them and move on. I strive to attain more humility in all spheres of my life in good times and bad times, and to always avoid being prejudicial and celebrating another person’s crisis or calamity. I want to appreciate people more and not to judge them harshly by relying on one-sided sources».

Clearly, Walibora desired to be understood in a particular way, an acknowledgement that no one is an open book, not even the writers of books.

The Teachers Service Commission has been asked not to remit teachers’ loan deductions to banks.

This is in line with the government’s plea for leniency from lenders in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. The Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers said several financial institutions are yet to provide customers with reprieves on loan repayments.

Many teachers’ payslips are heavily deducted to settle various loans with banks and other financial institutions, and this leaves them with so little at the end of the month, said Akello Misori, the Kuppet secretary-general.
Mr Misori said whereas the little teachers got after deductions could previously sustain them under normal circumstances, the amount is no longer tenable under the prevailing times.

In a letter to TSC Chief Executive Nancy Macharia, Kuppet now wants the employer to inform financial institutions that it shall not be remitting teachers’ deductions.

«We urge the commission to withhold deductions for teachers’ loans and liaise with financial institutions on the same on behalf of teachers,» said Misori.

He said Kuppet is not able to state with certainty the extent of compliance with the appeal for leniency on loans, and asked TSC to intervene.

«Some banks are dragging their feet on implementing the directive, or creating unnecessary means-tests on a policy that should benefit all workers,» said Misori in a letter dated April 14.

He said the policy directive to cushion workers applies to all loans that were running at the time of the declaration.
This was aimed at boosting efforts to cushion families and businesses from the effects of reduced business activity during the coronavirus crisis.

Kuppet said only a handful of financial institutions have offered various reprieves, from outright loan holidays to the suspension of the levying of interest. The union also said only a few financial institutions have communicated with account holders on the same.

Misori said with schools closed, many teachers are currently far away from their bank branches and are unable to make individual applications for relief.

The Teachers Service Commission is banking on the support of Northern Kenya communities to ensure employees posted there are safe.

The commission will also engage other stakeholders to ensure learning is not disrupted for thousands of children because the lives of teachers are threatened.

Non-local teachers working in Mandera, Garissa and Wajir counties have been the targets of attack by al Shabaab militia with several killed and others injured.

Three teachers were killed in a suspected Shabaab attack in Kamuthe in Garissa, in a pre-dawn attack on January 13.
The attack led to the transfer of 2,340 non-local teachers from the county.

The situation was so bad that TSC boss Nancy Macharia on February 26 said they would not post teachers to Northeastern if the insecurity situation was not fixed.

But in its audit report of the first year of the 2019-23 strategic plan, the commission seems to have softened its stance.

TSC will enhance collaboration with local communities and government agencies to address insecurity in certain parts of the country, the report signed by chairperson Lydia Nzomo reads.

Members of Parliament from Northeastern failed to agree with ministry officials on how to remedy the withdrawal of the teachers.

The situation caused a learning crisis with students attending classes with no teachers to teach them.

The MPs protested that the mass transfer of teachers was inconsiderate, impulsive and discriminatory.

They also demanded to have locals enrolled in teacher training colleges with lower entry requirements and then posted to local schools following the staff crunch.

The teachers are serving them and communities should work with them for their children to be educated, commission communications head Beatrice Wababu said Tuesday.
The commission

said the communities should provide the first line of security to people serving them and other Kenyans.

The killings are only targeting teachers and not other professionals such as doctors and nurses. It shows clearly that some locals might be involved, she said.

The commission said it will encourage residents from the region to join the teaching profession.

We will talk with the communities so that those people who get C+ are encouraged to join teaching, TSC said.

In the year under review, TSC hired 13,993 teachers. Some 1,364 were posted to Wajir, Garissa, and Mandera to enhance equity. Another 5,906 teachers were promoted to various grades.

President Uhuru Kenyatta has applauded the efforts by Kenyatta University Students for coming up with a ventilator prototype to help in the fight against COVID-19.
Kenyatta University students developed ventilators for COVID-19 patients who developed difficulty breathing since they are only a handful in the country.

Speaking during a presser today, April 16, 2020, the Head of State commended the efforts initiated by Kenyans of goodwill to win the fight against COVID-19, adding that everyone should take responsibility.

The invention was done by 16 KU students in under one week and detailed the prototype, a cubical unit made of hard silver plastic parts with pipes connecting to an oxygen tank and two other pipes delivering the air.

The mechanical unit is controlled from a computer on top of it from where doctors can monitor the concentration of oxygen in the air that the machine is pumping into the patients’ lungs as well as control the ventilators’ intensity.
If approved, the University Vice-Chancellor indicated that the institution was capable of producing 50 ventilators per week.

We came up with the idea to make a ventilator when we heard that there were in short supply and with almost all the countries in lockdown, we could not import them from elsewhere, he said.

Further, President Uhuru announced a welfare package for health workers to cushion medical workers on the frontline against COVID-19.
He also directed medical insurance companies to cover hospital staff managing the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hundreds of private school teachers in Nakuru County have had their contracts suspended as the school shutdown heads to the third month.

President Uhuru Kenyatta ordered all schools closed on March 13 to counter the spread of Covid-19 in Kenya.
According to letters sent to the teachers by their employers and interviews with officials of the Private Schools Owners Association, the contracts have been suspended indefinitely.

The schools, in their notifications to the teachers, said the contracts remain suspended because of inability to sustain their payrolls.

Nakuru County Private Schools Owners Association Chairman John Waweru said the institutions took the decision due to the prevailing circumstances.

«Some of our members have delayed the decision as they try to get school fees arrears from parents to keep their staff on the payroll,» said Mr Waweru.

April and May

In one of the letters seen by The Standard, a private school has notified its teachers that the suspension of contract for the month of April and May will be treated like a normal holiday.

«This is taken to save the situation of any legitimacy that may arise later on. We all feel for you but we have nothing to do but to protect the school for future sustainability,» a letter to the staff by St Joseph’s Kirandich Secondary school in Nakuru noted.

The school noted that the staff might not be able to sign their contracts as was the norm whenever school re-opens.
In another letter by Carol Academy, the school notifies all teaching and non-teaching staff of unpaid leave.

Due to unforeseen circumstances caused by Covid-19 worldwide, the board of management of Carol Academy has decided to allow you to proceed on unpaid leave effective April 1, 2020 until further notice as directed by the national government, the letter read.

The board explained that with all schools closed it was difficult to generate income to run operations.

We regret this action but have no alternative as the school is no longer operational. We pray and hope that the situation will improve in the coming days when we shall inform you to resume work,» the letter stated.

Henry Ogada, the principal of Kings Academy, said the current situation posed a challenge in keeping staff on the payroll because private schools were no longer generating incomes.