63 schools get food aid

By Dennis Mwikya

63 primary schools in Machakos Town Constituency have this week benefited from relief food from the national government.

Mr Mule when he delivered food

Miwongoni primary school 

The Cosmopolitan Constituency had recieved 400 bags of Rice and 160 bags of Beans.

The food was delivered through the area  Member of Parliament Mr Caleb Mule. Speaking during the distribution exercise at Keaa Primary school in Mutituni/Ngelani ward, Mr  Mule said the move was aimed at reducing the high rate of student inconsistency in attending classes due to poverty levels.

"Learners have been suffering at home,some come to school even without meals,last time we distributed the food we received to vulnerable people,this time round we decided to feed our primary school learners across the Constituency " , he said.

Mule said an analysis conducted showed that providing the learners with free lunch, would lead to sustainable learning and improved performance.

"We will support them, to ensure they have lunch and when they return home in the evening, they may be able to help their parents, we want to ease the burden for parents, so that they send those students to school,” added Caleb

Parents commended the initiative which they said will sustain learners in school since meals are provided.

Over 34,000 learners to join secondary schools in Makueni

 

By Daniel Kituku 

Ovee 34, 000 students  who sat for KCPE in 2022 are set to join secondary schools in Makueni County.

Mr. Kaimba,County Commissioner 

The Makueni County Commissioner William Kaimba  told The Anchor that this is the projection of the 100 percent transition policy to secondary schools . The exact figure stands at 34,373, he added.

Kaimba said it is the responsibility of everyone to ensure children go to go and get education citing government commitment to have every child in school .

 Secondary schools begun to admit 2022 candidates this week in various  schools.

The Anchor visited Mwaani Girls Secondary School that has admitted a total of 450 girls who were very enthusiastic to join the institution. 

The girls expressed satisfaction to joining Mwaani girls for its good performance as they chatted with this reporter.

Ms Joan Muchina the school principal said they have put in place flexible plans for parents to pay school fees .

"Parents have a hard time taking pupils to boarding schools due to harsh economic times " she said.

Parents who spoke to The Anchor asked the government to help cushion them on school fees.

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Machakos Town Schools ranked

 An analysis of KCSE
 in Machakos Sub County

By The Anchor Reporter

The state of education in Machakos Sub County can be cracked from the analysis that has been just concluded on KCSE 2022 performance.

Out of the 4,088 candidates who sat for the examination in the 59 secondary schools in the sub-county, only 776 will proceed to the university, which is far less than a half of the candidates. Out of the 776, only 2 got an A grade. 27, had A-, 78 got B+, 151 b-, 226 had B and 292 had a C+, representing about 32 percent transition to University.

The bulk of the students will now have to sort themselves in Tertiary institutions. The majority in this category got  D-(812). The table below tell the grim story with better accuracy.

Top performer eyes medicine

By Gastone Valusi in 

Machakos.

Lower Eastern's arguably best overall candidate in 2022 KCSE Agnes Nzivo is from Misyani  Girls High School in Kangundo Sub-county.

She wants to pursue Medicine at the University of Nairobi. The 17-year old scored an A plain grade of 81 points in the final national examinations whose marking ended last week.

The A plain grade is a very rare grade in Lower Eastern region, with some  single schools in other counties scoring higher number of As than the cumulative figure of the region. 

Speaking to journalists outside the school ground today, an elated Agnes said her stunning performance in KCSE  has handed her a ticket to pursue the degree course in Neuro Surgeon, which she has been yearning to study since she joined the extra county school four years ago.

“I have no words and I cannot describe the amount of joy I have right now. I owe everything to God. I also thank my teachers and parents for standing by me and guiding me to achieve this grade,” said Agnes.

However, her success, she said did not come easy. “It was a rough and a bumpy ride to success. But I give it to my teachers who went out of their way to give me and my classmates maximum support,” she said.

Agnes's confession was affirmed his father Samuel Nzivo , who attributed his daughter performance was to hard work. 

“My daughter was focused all though and one of the most-hard-working and obedient in the school. The teachers also worked very hard in supporting my daughter and also  God heard our prayers,” Mr Nzivo said in an interview.

Kitui raises bursaries funding

Kitui County Government has raised to Kes. 120 million the budget for bursaries support to needy learners in the FY2022/23 up from Sh 40 million.

Speaking at Mutonguni in Kitui West on Saturday, Governor Malombe said the increment in allocation aims at supporting more learners and improving education standards in Kitui. 

 The programme dubbed pro-poor was mooted by the governor during his first term in office and targets students in secondary schools, vocational training centres, colleges and universities.

 Further, Governor Malombe noted that projects highlighted in his campaign manifesto will be implemented in full.

Malombe stressed that his administration will embark on an ambitious masterplan to curb water scarcity in the county through construction of 60 sand dams per ward that would be a sustainable medium and long-term plan to address perennial hunger in the county.

He said “the plan is to build sand dams in all the wards as jointly mapped by experts from SEKU and the County government of Kitui”.

He restated his commitment to deliver on his election pledges and improve lives of the residents in the third term of devolution through implementation of different projects in areas of healthcare, irrigation, education, road infrastructure, youth development among other growth frontiers as indicated in his county development plan.

Top to bottom Schools in Machakos KCSE 2012

Girls’ Schools outshine boys in Ukambani

 By Anchor Reporter

Girls’ secondary schools in Lower Eastern triumphed over their male counterparts in last years KCSE examination.

Ngilu's Graduation Day

Ngilu Speech on

day she graduated

"Today is a great day. A great day not just for me, my family, my friends but for the cause of lead­ership in this country. It is a great day because the power of collective effort has de­liv­ered success yet again. I stand here humbled by the support I re­ceived from so many in­di­viduals in the course of my aca­demic jour­ney.

Principals face transfers

Looming Transfers

for school Principals

By Anchor Reporter

Secondary schools’ head teachers in Machakos County have chosen officials to lead them in the Kenya Secondary Schools Heads Association (KESHA) as a warning was issued that long serving Principals would have to move to new stations.

Catholics demand representation

Catholic Bishops lay claim

to  slots in education boards

By Anchor Reporters

The Catholic Church is staking a claim to be represented in Kenya’s National Education Board.

Catholic bishops, as they laid their claim, faulted the Basic Education Bill 2012, citing its composition of the Selection Panel for the National Education Board and the church’s representation on the County Education Board.

Lukenya Schools' milestone

Lukenya Schools mark

20 years of hard work

By Martin Masai

LUKENYA Schools  are this year celebrating 20 years since the first of their institutions was founded.But much as attainment of 20 years  of great academic achievement is a great deal for a school by any standards, Lukenya Schools are seemingly taking it in their stride. To mark the day, the schools hosted what looked like a routine event- a Prize Giving Day. It is a routine in all their schools each year

Uncertainty at Machakos University College

Machakos University 

admits pioneer class

 By Martin Masai

 

The Joint Admissions Board (JAB) has admitted the pioneer batch of students to begin the classes at Machakos University College in September 2012 .

June- July 2012: Machakos School

Machakos School

roars back to life

JUBILANT students in victory dance outside the new administration block

By Jonathan Mutiso

MACHAKOS School has dramatically sprung back to  academic scales.It registered an improved performance by registering a mean score of 9.05 up from 8.04  in 2010 results in a surprise comeback after years of turmoil.

KCSE 2012 Performance: The Anchor Feb-March 2012

KCSE: A big rebound for Kitui,

Machakos and Makueni counties

By Jonathan Mutiso

THREE counties of Machakos, Makueni and Kitui, for the first time in over 10 years claimed 10 positions among the top 100 schools in Kenya Certificate of  Secondary Education in the County Schools category.The 2012 results marked a resounding comeback of Machakos in particular in KCSE performance.

SEUCO in Machakos The Anchor June-July 2011

South Eastern University College

 heralds a new dawn for Ukambani

South Eastern University College (SEUCO), a Public University College and the first to set foot in Ukambani is a successor to Ukamba Agricultural Institute (UKAI). UKAI started in the 1970s as one of the institutes established to harness the country’s skilled and semi-skilled human labour into productive development.