DEVELOPMENTS IN THE ADULT AND CONTINUED EDUCATION DEPARTMENT IN KERICHO DISTRICT

DEVELOPMENTS IN THE ADULT AND CONTINUED EDUCATION DEPARTMENT IN KERICHO DISTRICT

In the earlier days of the introduction of the adult literacy programmes in Kericho district, there were many problems and obstacles that the government had to skip first before they could start assessing the success of the programmes. First and foremost was the task of persuading the illiterate adults to believe and accept that age wasn’t a barrier to learning and their general understanding of what will be taught to them in the classrooms .Many of them had the psychology eep rooted in to them that schooling was for the young ones and that an adult wouldn’t do very well .
Convincing this people to go for the programmes was a very big problem. In adulthood, every body is already too busy in life to find the time to accomplish their every day life’s activities .Winning the families’ daily bread alone takes up to ninety percent of their time, leaving them with only ten percent of the days to share among the other activities in life. Thus, convincing the illiterate adults in to gathering in an adult education classroom was just but another very hard task that needed extra energy and time and perhaps finances in order to achieve it.
That was how it was in the past in kericho, it wasn’t very easy to get them to seat in class for even just one single hour daily, but things are changing with the times. According to the reports that were given to us by the District Adult Education officer, there have been developments which have lead to big psychological changes in the illiterate adult population in the district. According to the officer ,Mr. Gabriel Tum, the adult education department has witnessed among its students population people have are fully committed to learning and they have decided to share their time and follow up strictly with the adult education programmes.
The officer told us that the attending population is very good compared to the total percentage of illiterate adults in the district,it is considered to still be very low only that there is a small rise in the student numbers .The difference is that ,in the past they could gather even twenty or more in a class and then suddenly disappear without reasons or explanations and it wasn’t easy to follow them.
The odd thing about the functioning of the adult and continued education department in the district is that the department doesn’t have even one single adult education center in Kericho town .All their centers are located on the outskirts of the town ,in the villages .
The Department boasts of its few achievements though, First ,the officer told us that they have managed to issue their committed student with proficiency corticated after they sat for a proficiency test .This was done to mark that they were now proficient in their reading ,writing and doing simple calculations .These student are no longer the dump and deaf people they were in the passed but the are people who can fill out forms in the banks ,the post office ,the administration offices and all the others offices where they can be wanted t o some reading and writing and sign this forms very well to .They can do the calculations that go with these activities well too.

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KERICHO HIGHLANDS PRIMARY SCHOOL ANNOUNCE THE COMMERCIALIZATION OF THEIR LAVATORIES

KERICHO HIGHLANDS PRIMARY SCHOOL ANNOUNCE THE COMMERCIALIZATION OF THEIR LAVATORIES

The Kericho highlands primary school, Is the only school in the town or it could be even the whole district that have income generating facilities in their compounds. First, they have a business building that is rented to business people in the town and it earns the school an income in the form of monthly rent of not lest than six thousand shillings in one month. All these monies go entirely into the school account for the benefit of the entire schools’ population .It is a hundred percent school property. The building is currently rented to a chemist, it sells human medicines.

The school has again announced its’ intentions of expanding its income generating facilities. They have announced their intention of commercializing their toilets .They intend to sell lavatory services to the public who run their activities along Temple Road in the town .The toilets are situated directly opposite the Koineei Plaza ,the big building that neighbors the Walter Reed Clinical research Laboratories center ,all these facilities are situated on the same road. Most of the big businesses on this road are banks and the Kenya institute of Management studies College and offices.

The school had earlier on already advertised the tender application opportunities to interested contractors to carry out the necessary renovation activities on the lavatory .The lavatory is situated on a ten by ten feet area of land .The details of the tender were available at the schools offices at a non-refundable fee of two thousand shillings .The fees were said to be only payable via the schools account with the Kenya Commercial  Bank  No. 1119267048 and the tender application documents had to go with the bank deposit slip of the fees .

The completed forms for the application of the tender were supposed to reach the tender box office by the fifth date of the month of September, later than that wouldn’t be accepted.

It wasn’t clearly stated on how the operation of the lavatory would be carried out after the completion of the renovation works .The schools administration didn’t elaborated whether the tenders were for rental of the lavatory of for the renovation services but judging from the state in which the current lavatory is in, it will need a little renovation works done on it. It wasn’t clearly stated whether the school would employ their own staff to take care of the lavatory  whether they would rent it to some one else .

The schools head teacher told us that the money earned from these facilities goes to the payment of the schools bills, including electricity, water and the welfare of the schools population generally. They intend to use these chance to ease the burden of paying for these services and the extra curriculum activities fees on the parents whose children go to this school .So far we haven’t heard of any other schools in the neighborhood with the same kinds of projects .

The staff and school committee and the entire administration of the school have very high hopes in the nature of their projects that perhaps soon they could expand their project to include housing estates, or wholesale shops or hotels or the rest of the kinds of business, just to create an income for the school.

E-SERVICES AT THE KIPSIGIS TEACHERS SACCOIN KERICHO, KENYA

E-SERVICES AT THE KIPSIGIS TEACHERS SACCOIN KERICHO, KENYA

The ATM method of withdrawing money and the SMS methods of banking have become very popular among the people of Kericho Town generally .This is proven by the long queues that can be seen at the ATM points at all the banks in the town .A bigger percentage of the towns banking population prefer to use this machines and mobile phones to the normal traditional methods of banking. The reason being that the machines are more time saving than the normal methods of withdrawing money and the availability of money through the ATMs and  the SMS services on their mobile phones for the twenty four hours of the day throughout the seven days of the week.

The Sacco encourages its members to use the ATM because of its benefits in the reduction of congestion and all the other benefits that will come as a result of the use of the machine.

The Sacco uses a Visa branded ATM card which gives its members an advantage of accessing their money anytime any day and anywhere in the whole world where the visa card is used.

The Customers of the Kipsigis teachers Sacco are not left out in this development s and trend of life. The possibility of withdrawing money at the ATM any time of the day has given the machines more advantages over the traditional method, and hence, many customers of the Sacco Prefer using the ATM. Customers can use the ATM services even at night.

Next is the Mobile phone banking .This methods of banking also have changed life upcountry a great deal .More and more people are turning to the use this method of banking .They are easy and secure than carrying hard cash in the hand .Compared to the time consuming queuing methods of doing the same thing over the counters, plus the expenses of travelling from their distant homes to the Sacco’s office to make simple inquiries. More customers have turned to the use of these methods .The method is popularly known as e-banking where the customers exchange the money electronically over their mobile phones during a transaction.

The Sacco provides these services to its customer’s .They can make inquiries about the state of their accounts with the FOSA, the back offices and co-operative house. They can also know how much they have in their balances .And they can also do more with it.

The customers can also get notifications on their salaries, loans, a check which has matured dividends and more other services which the society continues to add on to the list as time goes on and as they continue developing and their needs changing to match with the times.

The services are intended to reduce congestion at the Sacco’s’ offices.

Although there have been normal break downs   due to mechanical problems in the machines and weaknesses in the networks from the mobile phone service providers and except for the few reports early in the year in other banking institutions whereby it was said that the machines printed the receipts wrongly causing the customers to be overcharged in their accounts, but the machine are expected to be more convenient than the humans who serve the customers over the counters. Many people are taking to mobile banking.

The teachers Sacco ATM has been out of order for  the bigger part of the month of august .This cost a lot of inconveniences to the Sacco’s customers generally. Some of the customers had to go back home without money and spend the weekends the hard way. The Sacco’s administrations office declined to speak about this issue when we visited them for an interview about the problem. The most senior boss at in that office said that he wasn’t willing to say anything about the matter and warned us not to report anything about this matter.

According to the interview between us and the female group four security company guard who was on duty on Saturday, the twenty seventh day of the month of august, when we went to check the machine, It had been in the malfunction state for over two weeks and the staff of the Sacco hadn’t given an explanation for the break down of the machine to their customers up to that date .Other wise the masses in kerihco town are continuing to change to the use of e-money and very soon ,they  could drop the use of hard cash and  use the e-money in their daily lives entirely .

On the society’s’ Development ,The Sacco intents to become a micro credit organization .The products are still being developed and  improved after a successful completion of the feasibility study .The society’s members are encouraged to form groups and open accounts with the FOSA so as to benefit from the project.

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KERICHO TEA BOYS HIGH SCHOOL IN A CLEAN UP EXERCISE IN KERICHO TOWN,KERICHO,KENYA

The Kericho tea boys high school on the eighteenth date of the month of july had  clean up exercise in kericho town.Students from the school went around the town with plastic bags picking any piece of rubbish that they could set their eyes on.They were supported by  the Kericho youth center and a local theatrics group named Trinato Theatretics group .The exercise was titled "A clean environment ,a healthy life/Mazingira safi maisha bora"


.The exercise was sponsored by various groups and co-operatioration ,others sponsored them financially and others sponsored them in kind.Among the main sponsors wa the Kericho municipal council ,Kericho Youth center,,NEMA,Unilever,Ndege Chai and the Standard Bank. 

 The Guest of honour during the exercise was the Town Clerk.He was represented by the councils Environmental office.His speech was read to the participants by the office.

 The schools does the exercise ones each year,it is on the schools' calender of events .

The school has been doing well generally recently , they will be participating in the Kenya National Music Festival finals in Nairobi this year .This was confirmed to us by the member of staff in-charge ,Mr.Martin Rono.THe member of staff in-charge of sportsm,Mr, Davis Cheboiwa, also confirmed to us that the school has been doing well in rugby and they have been participating in the national levels Finals .


 In their last years exercise,the schools fraternity contributed money that they used to buy food and paid for the medical check ups of street children and street families .They worked in conjuction with the Childrens department and the Kericho District Hospital

This information was given to us by the memebr of the schools staf in-charge Mrs.Susan Limisi.

TEACHERS SHOULD BE SCANNED FOR SANITY BEFORE EMPLOYMENT

TEACHERS SHOULD BE SCANNED FOR SANITY BEFORE EMPLOYMENT


The rise in the odd acts in our teachers in our schools have reached an alarming level that there is a need for action to be taken against these kinds of teachers .The TSC has to do the filtering well so that we do not end up with monsters in our schools instead of the good and decent teachers that we expect out of our educationists and as the ethics of the profession goes.

A week hardly passes before we read in the press or hear about them in the media in general .They are either gays who end up using their positions in power in the schools to satisfy the sexual needs,to sodomise the kids .Sometimes,they are lesbians who do the same as the gays ,or through some unexplainable situations they end up killing or mishandling the students in many different ways .

It is not in kenya alone that this problem exists .A Mathematics teacher at Adissadel College (ADISCO) in Cape Coast was dismissed by the school authorities for sodomising some of the students. The gay teacher, Richard Atta Panyin, was alleged to have abused six students of the school but only one of ...them was bold enough to reveal his ordeal to the authorities. The victim (name withheld) is said to have fallen sick, and when he was interrogated by doctors at the hospital where he had been sent, he unravelled the Maths teacher’s unholy activities. According to an impeccable source at the school, Panyin, who had previously taught at St Augustine’s College, had been sacked for a similar offence in his previous school and later relocated to ADISCO in late 2010. It said the activities of Panyin, who is married with three children, came to light when the sick student identified him to the doctor attending to him, who in turn reported the teacher to the ADISCO authorities. It indicated that Panyin appeared before a disciplinary committee set up by the school a couple of weeks ago and his dismissal was recommended after his explanations had been found to be unsatisfactory. Efforts to contact Panyin for his version failed because he was said to have left the school compound immediately after his dismissal. When contacted on phone, the Headmaster of ADISCO, Mr H. K.K. Graham, failed to confirm or deny the story. He hanged the phone when he realised that he was talking to the Daily Graphic. The incident comes barely a forthnight after a female Lecturer at the Takoradi Polytechnic was dismissed for forcing students into lesbianism .

Surely, the best way to handle these problems is to have the TSC and the other arms of the ministry of education that deal with the employment and administration of our educationists to thoroughly test them for psycological and other mental health fitness before they can be allowed to handle the students.Ending up with Homosexuals and murderous in class is very embarassing .

TEACHER DISMISSED FOR SODOMISSING STUDENTS (By LIZ AMPOFO)

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A Mathematics teacher at Adissadel College (ADISCO) in Cape Coast has been dismissed by the school authorities for sodomising some of the students. The gay teacher, Richard Atta Panyin, was alleged to have abused six students of the school but only one of ...them was bold enough to reveal his ordeal to the authorities. The victim (name withheld) is said to have fallen sick, and when he was interrogated by doctors at the hospital where he had been sent, he unravelled the Maths teacher’s unholy activities. According to an impeccable source at the school, Panyin, who had previously taught at St Augustine’s College, had been sacked for a similar offence in his previous school and later relocated to ADISCO in late 2010. It said the activities of Panyin, who is married with three children, came to light when the sick student identified him to the doctor attending to him, who in turn reported the teacher to the ADISCO authorities. It indicated that Panyin appeared before a disciplinary committee set up by the school a couple of weeks ago and his dismissal was recommended after his explanations had been found to be unsatisfactory. Efforts to contact Panyin for his version failed because he was said to have left the school compound immediately after his dismissal. When contacted on phone, the Headmaster of ADISCO, Mr H. K.K. Graham, failed to confirm or deny the story. He hanged the phone when he realised that he was talking to the Daily Graphic. The incident comes barely a forthnight after a female Lecturer at the Takoradi Polytechnic was dismissed for forcing students into lesbianism http://www.ghanatoghana.com/Ghanahomepage/gay-teacher-richard-atta-panyin-dismissed-adissadel-college-adisco-authoritiesSee More..

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