Why Mbadi's forum at Jevanjee was genuine public participation

It was a pleasant surprise seeing the Cabinet Secretary for The National Treasury and Economic Planning John Mbadi engaging the citizens at Jevanjee Gardens, the venue of the Bunge la Mwananchi.

By Kennedy Buhere 7 months ago

Mbadi's engagement at Jeevanjee shows true public participation

True public participation happens where the people are- in open spaces where leaders and citizens can engage freely. Not in conference rooms or through newspaper notices.

By Kennedy Buhere 7 months ago

The dangers of sending young children to Boarding School

PS Belio Kipsang expressed the need for parents to reconsider the moral basis of the boarding school model for learners in primary Schools.

By Kennedy Buhere 8 months ago

State should take more interest in how children are brought up

Until around the early 1980s, adults other than parents could chastise children they found in the wrong. Uncles could reprimand nephews or nieces if they found them in the wrong.

By Kennedy Buhere 8 months ago

The State must take an interest in the way children are raised

The state should put at the centre of the curriculum, the moral dimension of schooling to help children acquire virtues or moral habits that will help them individually live good lives.

By Kennedy Buhere 8 months ago

Frequent testing is not good for learners; it undermines education

Testing of students is an excellent strategy to keep students on track and also to assess learning, however, frequent testing is counterproductive

By Kennedy Buhere 11 months ago

Why Public Relations practitioners require journalistic skills

PR experts need the knowledge, skills, tact and judgement of journalists in helping an organisation communicate purposefully with their stakeholders.

By Kennedy Buhere 1 year ago

Why holiday tuition does not improve learning outcomes

Students need mental breaks from the pressing study schedules. The teachers need it also.

By Kennedy Buhere 1 year ago

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Excessive testing undermines teaching, learning in schools

The frequency of testing that learners are subjected to has serious implications on education policy, standards and curricula allocated for effective teaching and learning.

By Kennedy Buhere 1 year ago

Powerful speeches are those that appeal to audiences' emotions

The level of success the leaders have with the people and the stakeholders depends on the way they use words to deliver a speech in front of an audience.

By Kennedy Buhere 1 year ago

Why remedial teaching should not be provided to all learners

Remedial teaching is designed to help students who fall behind in their studies or have difficulties learning a particular subject matter or subjects.

By Kennedy Buhere 1 year ago

Teacher is key in child's education, despite emerging technologies

The guiding star of schools and any educational institution is a teacher. ICT and all the capabilities it has as an educational tool cannot and will never substitute a teacher.

By Kennedy Buhere 2 years ago

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Why some literature setbooks are taught again and again

The crop of students who study the setbooks are never the same. The books are therefore as new to them as they were to students who studied them a decade or so earlier.

By Kennedy Buhere 3 years ago

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Cheaper calls on the way as telcos agree to cut key rates

Operators have reached an out-of-court settlement that will see them cut mobile termination rates by 41 percent. Safaricom had appealed an earlier decision by regulator to cut the rate by 87 percent.

By Kennedy Buhere 3 years ago

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Kenyan children don't know Martin Shikuku? Seriously?

The student who unconsciously studies, comes to appreciate the place of words in the pen and mouth of the great and exceptional men and women he reads about.

By Kennedy Buhere 3 years ago

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To end exam cheating, we must understand purpose of education

Examination cheating can be ended when the country adopts what he called authentic assessment model.

By Kennedy Buhere  3 years ago

School holidays have benefits for children; spare them the tuition

School holidays create room for parents to spend time with their children. They also create time for the teachers to spend time with their families.

By Kennedy Buhere 3 years ago

Let's support, not condemn, those who resign to heed a higher duty

Politics, or legislative positions have unlimited authority and power over nearly everything within the jurisdiction of Parliament.

By Kennedy Buhere 3 years ago

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Let's preserve popular speeches by our best orators for posterity

However, the history of rhetoric—the art of effective and persuasive speaking and writing—shows that a large body of speeches have titles.

By Kennedy Buhere 3 years ago

Curriculum has nothing do with indiscipline in our schools at all

Upon entry into secondary education under the 8-4-4 system, all students study a broad and balanced curriculum,

By Kennedy Buhere  3 years ago

It is possible to make children to learn with minimal stress

Every school programme was meant to build the minds, hearts and souls of learners.

By Kennedy Buhere 3 years ago

All children have inborn ability to follow education curriculum

The time spent on the course materials determines not just the quality of learning, but also how many students are actually learning.

By Kennedy Buhere 3 years ago

Society’s problem-solving skills prove past always binds present

People fall back on their frames of mind, attitudes and values when confronted with new circumstances and new facts.

By Kennedy Buhere  3 years ago

Communication skills essential to holistic learning

Communication and collaboration have been entrenched in the Basic Curriculum Framework, which is the blueprint for the seven core competencies...

By Kennedy Buhere 4 years ago

Hilary Ng’weno’s other magazine that some readers loved the most

Most of those who have eulogised Hilary Ng’weno don’t know that he had some misgivings about how educated people regarded Weekly Review

By Kennedy Buhere 4 years ago

How publishers can boost reading culture

The fiduciary duty of publishers to society goes beyond the school years of students

By Kennedy Buhere 4 years ago

Libraries should have more than textbooks

The school library is the heart of any educational institution, which learners use to enhance and deepen their learning experiences

By Kennedy Buhere 5 years ago

Self esteem is critical to productive learning

Confidence level in students is an important factor in educational success

By Kennedy Buhere 5 years ago

Why no child's education should end at Class Eight

Education, more than anything else, is the instrument by which people fully enjoy the rights and privileges of citizenship.

By Kennedy Buhere 5 years ago

Revise syllabus and not just past exam papers

Magoha has advised KCPE and KCSE candidates to “revise the syllabus, not past examination papers”

By Kennedy Buhere 5 years ago

Obsession with exam markers is misplaced

Students don’t need test-taking skills if they have quality instruction in that subject.

By Kennedy Buhere 6 years ago

Why new curriculum is better than 8-4-4

CBC has recognised that children are differently endowed in abilities, interests and orientations.

By Kennedy Buhere 6 years ago

Reforms in education is about preparing learners for the future

Education must make appropriate adjustment to new environment.

By Kennedy Buhere 6 years ago

Universities must develop leaders, not mere functionaries

A week ago, Strathmore University’s Deputy Vice Chancellor Vincent Ogutu underscored a fundamental function of higher education

By Kennedy Buhere 7 years ago

Sossion has mistaken new curriculum

Sossion raised an important question on the proposed curriculum reform while addressing members of the Kepsha in Mombasa

By Kennedy Buhere 7 years ago

Education is developing, not stuffing learners’ minds

A basic feature of the Curriculum Reform initiative that the Ministry of Education is spearheading is that dominance of examinations will be scaled down

By Kennedy Buhere 7 years ago

There's more harm in stretching learning hours

The report of the Special Investigation Team on School Unrest in 2016 cites congested school routines in some of secondary schools as one of the factors that triggered unrest during second term in the 2016 calendar year.

By Kennedy Buhere 8 years ago

Why students must study a variety of subjects in school

Two weeks ago, a student from Alliance High School raised an important question with Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i: Why should students study up to eight subjects when all they require is one or two subjects which are core to the profession or career they wish to study after school? The question the student posed to the top policy makers may look naïve to many people

By Kennedy Buhere, Ministry of Education 8 years ago

Holiday Tuition: Why It adds zero value to school children in Kenya

The Basic Education Act, 2013, outlaws holiday tuition of any kind

By Kennedy Buhere 8 years ago

Why reading is key to country's new curriculum

Ability to read puts the cumulative experience of humankind at the disposal of each person - Charles E

By Kennedy Buhere 8 years ago