By Alice Njoki Students in Kericho county at Litein Boys High School late on Sunday night break windows down and set their school on fire, September 21, 2025. The students were upset after being told they could not watch the big football match between Manchester City and Arsenal. Besides this, they were also angry […]
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September 2025 – The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), has launched a groundbreaking report titled RIGHTS.AI: Children’s Experiences of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Kenya. The report seeks to answer an important question: how are Kenyan children using artificial intelligence, what challenges are they facing and what changes do they want to […]
Last week in Nairobi, more than 100 young innovators from across the country gathered for the Learners EdTech Summit 2025 at Milele Hotel, Nairobi, organized by Mtoto News in partnership with EdTech East Africa. Watching them present their solutions, I could not shake one question…if children already know what the future of education should look […]
Written by Alice Njoki. Several public schools across Kenya have closed for the second term a week earlier than planned due to a severe shortage of government capitation funds. The government cut the capitation payment per secondary school student from KSh 22,244 to about KSh 16,900 and delayed payments owed to […]
Written By Jermaine Magethe The world appears to be making a lot of noise nowadays. Headlines are filled with chaos. Sounds of bombings, protests, and grieving families fill our feeds. From Gaza and Israel’s conflicts to unrest in Sudan, Ukraine, and others; children are seeing and learning more than perhaps we […]
Written by Alice Njoki. A childcare worker in Melbourne, Australia, has been arrested after being accused of hurting several young children in his care. The case has shocked many people and raised serious questions about how such actions could go unnoticed for so long. The man, 26-year-old Joshua Brown, worked in […]
Written by Alice Njoki. The Kenyan government revealed on May 13, 2025, that no funds were allocated in the 2025/26 national budget for the administration of key national exams, including the Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KPSEA), Junior Secondary School (JSS), and Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exams. This was […]
The other day during the Africa Children Summit 2025, I found myself in a breakout session listening to children from Malawi. I thought they will be sharing about their school experiences , stories, I assumed, of books, subjects and maybe friendships or playtime. But what I heard was different. It wasn’t about learning. It […]
Written by Alice Njoki Mathematics will no longer be a mandatory subject for students transitioning to senior secondary school under Kenya’s Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC). This announcement was made by Education Principal Secretary Belio Kipsang on Thursday, March 13, 2025, during a press briefing in Nairobi. The change is part of the government’s efforts to […]
Written by Alice Njoki. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing education around the world, and Kenya is also experiencing this change. AI tools like ChatGPT, SOMANASI, Grammarly, and others are making learning easier, more fun, and available at any time. These tools help students with writing, solving math problems, asking questions, and learning new skills. AI […]