Textbooks

• Report: Why teachers are hiding textbooks

  
  2 months ago
  New findings cite fear of paying for lost books, absenteeism and laziness among tutors.

• Schools get 33 million textbooks as state narrows shortfall

  
  2 months ago
  Restructured book tendering saves the taxpayer Sh5 billion that would have been lost in collusion between suppliers and headteachers.

• School heads report anomalies in supply of core textbooks

  
  2 months ago
  Some principals have opted to return the extra books to their respective sub-county education offices.

• Schools get textbooks two months to exams

  
  2 months ago
  Principals say distribution of books has been a nightmare and has greatly affected teaching.

• Ensure equitable supply of school textbooks

  
  2 months ago
  Over supplied books should be returned immediately for re-distribution to schools in dire need

• Man pleads with MPs to scrap textbook tax

  
  2 months ago
  Njoroge Waweru says removing VAT will encourage more Kenyans to read.

• Schools complain for oversupply of textbooks

  
  3 months ago
  Some principals have complained that the Government was duped into paying for the materials that are now filling up their stores.

• Shocking errors in Sh7 billion textbooks

  
  8 months ago
  Education Ministry procured the books at a cost of Sh7.6 billion in a new plan that saved taxpayers Sh13 billion.

• School heads in a spot over textbooks

  
  8 months ago
  Head teachers have once again been taken to task over purchase of textbooks as it emerged money for coursebooks had been wired to schools.

• Uhuru: 2018 will be a nasty year for the corrupt

  
  10 months ago
  President says accountability will not be nogotiable

• Security measures for textbooks as Government rolls out new plan

  
  10 months ago
  The government-supplied textbooks have enhanced security features to ensure they are not stolen or pirated.

• Education ministry distributes 7.6 million mathematics textbooks

  
  10 months ago
  The Ministry of Education has distributed 7.6 million textbooks for the two classes to all schools

• Form One students to report on January 9

  
  11 months ago
  Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i says the Government will deal directly with publishers to drive cartels out of business.

• How school heads and suppliers stole Sh14b

  
  11 months ago
  Publishers have been fixing cover prices of recommended textbooks to three times the actual price

• Collapse of multibillion-school books cartel

  
  1 year ago
  Matiang'i says multiple textbooks per subject will no longer be allowed as the Government will approve only one.

• Textbooks are a threat to Kenya's economy, but ...

  
  2 years ago
  In classrooms, textbooks are rare. This has spawned a thriving photocopying industry.

• MPs reject push to scrap VAT on textbooks

  
  2 years ago
  MPs yesterday rejected the push to scrap the 16 per cent value-added tax imposed on textbooks three years ago.

• Why it would be wrong for State to go back to issuing textbooks

  
  2 years ago
  Before the 2003 curriculum review in Kenya, you could count the number of serious publishers in Kenya on the fingers of one hand.

• Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i order likely to advance graft

  
  2 years ago
  The 2010 Constitution seems to have devolved corruption to the counties.

• Let schools buy their own textbooks

  
  2 years ago
  The move by Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i to stop teachers from buying books might not solve the problem of textbook to pupils ratio