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Teachers and pupils ‘molested’ in Cameroon attack

Africa/Cameroon/08-11-2020/Author and Source: www.kbc.co.ke

Gunmen have attacked a school in the coastal city of Limbe in south-west Cameroon.

A senior official at the school, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the attackers forced students and teachers to undress before beating them up and molesting some of them.

They then set parts of the school building on fire.

The attackers, numbering about 20, stormed the school at about 8:00 local time on Wednesday.

Eyewitnesses said the security force’s Rapid Intervention Battalion arrived at the scene after the attackers had fled.

Schools in Cameroon’s restive Anglophone regions have come under attack recently by unidentified gunmen. The government accuses separatist fighters of carrying out the attacks.

The latest attack comes barely 24 hours after gunmen kidnapped 11 teachers in a Presbyterian school in Kumbo city in the north-west.

The burial of the seven students killed in a secondary school in Kumba city in the south-west on 24 October is due to be held on Thursday.

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Govt: Students already in schools to continue learning. Kenya

Africa/Kenya/01-11-2020/Author and Source: ww.kbc.co.ke

The Ministry of Education will not close schools for students who have already resumed learning, the Principal Secretary for Basic Education Dr. Belio Kipsang has said.

Dr. Kipsang said the children are far safer in schools because the school environment is regulated unlike the environments outside educational institutions.

He made the remarks after assessing the teaching and learning environments at Naivasha Girls High School and Naivasha High School, its boys’ counterpart in Naivasha town Friday.

The Principal Secretary had earlier inspected the production of Desks for schools in workshops in the town.

Dr. Kipsang asked adult Kenyans to give learners an opportunity to invest in their future by creating safe environments for the children to learn.

 He said adults should avoid going to social places or other environments that exposed them to Covid-19, saying this behavior put their children and everybody else at risk.

He said the Ministry, in conjunction with the Ministry of Health was monitoring the behavior Covid-19 was taking in the community,

He said the government would, based on the assessment of the situation, decide how to handle learners who still remained at home following the phased reopening of schools.

Dr. Kipsang, however, ruled out the closing of schools for grade 4, class 8 and form four students.

He said the government had put in place appropriate measures to ensure the safety of children in school.

He said safety of the workplaces, schools and social places were very important in ensuring the safety of everybody including children.

Dr. Kipsang said artisans had already started delivering desks as contracted by the government.

He however asked suppliers of raw materials not to inflate the prices of blackboards and steel metals used in the production of the desks.

 Present during the PS assessment tour included Naivasha Deputy County Commissioner, Kisilu Mutua, and area Deputy Director for education, Mr. Bernard Chirchir.

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Kenya: School heads to ensure next year’s candidates return to school

Africa/Kenya/25-10-2020/Author:Muraya Kamunde/Source: www.kbc.co.ke

All school heads in the country have been tasked to ensure that all students who sit for their KCPE and KCSE exams next year return to school.

University Education and Research Principal Secretary Amb. Simon Nabukwesi who was on weeklong visit to several learning institutions in Nyanza and Western Kenya regions to assess the learning progress observed that some learners had failed to report to their respective schools.

School Principals in the affected institutions cited pregnancies as some of the reasons to why some female students failed to turn up as they were nursing their babies whereas a few male students had engaged in business and absconded class.

The PS asked school heads to liaise with their parents and guardians to ensure all students return to school.

The University Education PS said the Government is concerned about the safety, hygiene and health of both learners and teachers and is currently monitoring the progress of the partial school re-opening in all counties to ascertain that the Covid-19 measures and protocols have been adhered to.

“Covid-19 pandemic is here with us but our lives have to continue, I urge you to observe the required protocols such as social distancing, frequent hand washing, wearing of face masks to avoid getting infected,”  he said.

The PS noted that public institutions had challenges but assured the school Heads that the Government is doing its best to ensure funds are availed to aid in the expansion of facilities and purchase of Covid-19 prevention requirements.

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Kenya: COVID-19: Bottlenecks as schools implement phased re-opening

Africa/Kenya/18-10-2020/Author: Nicholas Kigondu/Source: ww.kbc.co.ke

More learners reported back to school on Tuesday following the reopening of primary and secondary schools for Grade 4, class 8 and Form four learners amid safety concerns.

 In-person learning resumed on Monday across the country with learners facing extended learning schedules as teachers strive to recover lost time and regularize the national academic calendar that was disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic.

A spot check however reveal that a section of private schools are yet to resume learning as they struggle to comply with strict protocols issued by the ministry of health and meant to contain the spread of the virus.

The suspension of learning saw private schools hit hard by economic meltdown witnessing closure of some schools that depended on school fees for survival.

At the Narok County Academy, the management was Tuesday busy putting its house in order as it prepares to usher in learners on Wednesday.  School’s director Elizabeth Ntutu says they have already put in place elaborate measures in line with directives issued by the government.

Narok County Academy Director Elizabeth Ntutu says the school has complied with all directives issued by the ministry of health

Narok county Director of Education Philip Wambua says 95 percent of class eight and form four candidates in Narok County have reported back to school. Most of those yet to report back to school said to be pregnant girls who fell pregnant during the long holiday occasioned by the Covid-19 pandemic.

At the Thika School for the Blind in Kiambu County, only 11 pupils have so far reported, a situation blamed on financial constraints.

According to the school’s head Margaret Njuguna, parents at the school   have suffered harsh economic Covid-19 shock waves and had only started to heal when the Ministry of Education announced resumption of learning.

In announcing the phased re-opening of schools, education cabinet secretary George Magoha issued an 11-week school calendar for the learners for their second and third terms that will see learners break for just a week during the December holiday.

The learners will break for the end of their second terms on 24 December and resume learning on 4 January to kick off the third term. And in a departure from the past, the revised school calendar has not made provision for mid-term.

Magoha opted for a phased reopening, giving priority to the pioneer Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) class, he Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) and Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exam candidates, who will now sit their tests in March and April next year.

The decision to reopen schools in phases followed advise from the education task-force committee on Covid-19 with the education ministry saying it will monitor the situation before making a decision on when learning for the rest of the learners in primary and secondary schools will resume.

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Kenya: Lecturers’ strike blights graduation for UoN medical students

Africa/Kenya/11-10-2020/Author and Source: www.kbc.co.ke

Medical doctors, pharmacists and nurses undertaking their studies at the University of Nairobi and who were set to be conferred with honours this year risk missing out following a lecturers’ strike which commenced Thursday.

Lecturers drawn from the College of Health Sciences and Kenyatta National Hospital campus through a statement claim they have resolved to strike due to failure by the employer to pay clinical allowances.

University Academic Staff Union (UASU) Secretary-General Constantine Wasonga says his members feel short-changed over what he says is a unilateral withdrawal of payment of the clinical allowances by the University in complete disregard of employment and labour laws.

“The consequence of the strike is that unless the clinical allowances are reinstated, the UoN shall not graduate medical doctors, pharmacists and nurses this year,” read the statement.

According to Wasonga, staff in other Universities are receiving their clinical allowances without facing similar obstacles.

“….funding required for the clinical allowances was disbursed by the National Treasury in July to the campus accounts. As such, no additional funding is required,” he added.

Wasonga says UASU had given the campus numerous chances to resolve the dispute through dialogue with limited success.

According to UASU, as of Thursday morning, pending allowances which were to be cleared a week from 15th September 2020 have not been paid to the majority of the academic staff.

Wasonga saying the strike would have far-reaching effects because the country is in the middle of a pandemic and will also, derail the implementation of the Universal Health Coverage Agenda as envisaged.

This even as he maintained that his members will not be cowed by threats nor intimidations as they demand their rights.

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Primary schools reopens in Pakistan

Asia/Pakistan/04-10-2020/Author and Source: www.xinhuanet.com

Students wearing face masks sit in an auto-rickshaw to go to school in Peshawar, Pakistan, Sept. 30, 2020. Primary schools across the country reopened on Wednesday under strict COVID-19 control and prevention measures. (Xinhua/Saeed Ahmad)

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Students wearing face masks attend a class at a school in Islamabad, capital of Pakistan, Sept. 30, 2020. Primary schools across the country reopened on Wednesday under strict COVID-19 control and prevention measures. (Xinhua/Ahmad Kamal).

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A student walks into a disinfecting gate to enter a school in Peshawar, Pakistan, Sept. 30, 2020. Primary schools across the country reopened on Wednesday under strict COVID-19 control and prevention measures. (Xinhua/Saeed Ahmad).

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Students wearing face masks attend a class at a school in Peshawar, Pakistan, Sept. 30, 2020. Primary schools across the country reopened on Wednesday under strict COVID-19 control and prevention measures. (Xinhua/Saeed Ahmad).

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Time to re-open schools in Eastern and Southern Africa, UNICEF

Africa/27-09-2020/Author: Beth Nyaga/Source: www.kbc.co.ke

UNICEF has called on governments, parents and teachers across Eastern and Southern Africa to urgently and safely re-open schools, as the costs of continued school closures escalate across Eastern and Southern Africa.

While there are encouraging reports that 13 out of 21 countries in Eastern and Southern Africa have returned children to classrooms, with an additional four having set return dates, countries such as Kenya – with a huge student population – are still to decide on whether they will reopen schools this year, compounding the threats which out-of-school children face.

UNICEF’s call to safely re-open schools follows scientific evidence which shows children are not super-spreaders of COVID-19, and are the least affected by COVID-19 in the region, with a mere 2.5 per cent of COVID-19 cases attributed to children of school-going age (5-18 years, WHO).

“Much effort was spent at the start of this pandemic reminding all of the dangers of COVID-19 and necessary precautions,” said Mohamed Malick Fall, Regional Director for UNICEF Eastern and Southern Africa. “Things have evolved – we now know greater dangers for children lie by being outside the classroom. That message needs to be heard.”

Across this region, of the nearly 65 million children remaining out of school, around one in two are not reached by any form of learning.

Meanwhile, violence has spiked. Across the region, millions of children continue to miss what was their one nutritious meal of the day.

“Seven months into the pandemic, we must be very clear about the gravity of this crisis: we are at risk of losing a generation,” said Fall. “We see lost learning, rising violence, rising child labour, forced child marriages, teen pregnancies and diminished nutrition. A generation of children is at risk, and at the most critical time in our continent’s history.

“We are at a time of unprecedented population growth,” continued Fall. “If this expanded workforce can receive quality learning at school, the potential for increased production could sustain an economic boom to drastically reduce poverty in Africa – where currently 70 per cent of sub-Saharan Africa’s people live on less than US$ 2/day.”

It can be done. Safely re-opening schools by the beginning of October this year will give scholars a full term and vastly reduce learning losses.

A third term for learners presents the last chance to recoup learning losses for 2020 and avert the dangers of permanent school drop-outs.

Re-opening will also reduce losses incurred by both parents and governments.

Critically, there is growing regional and global practice showing that safe school re-opening can be done with political will and community commitment.

Most countries in Eastern and Southern Africa have seen the rationale of a phased return to schools, starting with exam classes in countries such as Botswana, Eritrea, Eswatini, Madagascar, Somalia, Zambia, and recently Malawi and Zimbabwe.

Bigger countries with larger COVID-19 caseloads and higher student populations – such as South Africa – have reopened schools for all grades since the end of August.

“UNICEF is here to support countries, and share working practices on safely re-opening schools; examples that can be applied to our context,” said Fall.

Source and Image: https://www.kbc.co.ke/time-to-re-open-schools-in-eastern-and-southern-africa-unicef/
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