The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke Coffee farmers with the larger Kangema, Murang’a boycotted harvesting their coffee demanding immediate closure of a coffee pulping factory, implicated with coffee hawking. The farmers drawn from Iyego, New Kiriti and Kangunu cooperative societies among others accused the authorities over allowing the establishment of Marga factory and purchase of coffee cherries,…
By James Wakahiu editor@themountainjournal.co.ke Eight years after introduction of the Competence Based Curriculum to replace the 8-4-4 education system, the country is now breeding a generation of critical thinkers and problem solvers. Josephine Wanjiku, an educationist and a don at Kenya Methodist University (KeMU) says that the new curriculum, now referred as Competence Based Education…
By James Wakahiu editor@themountainjournal.co.ke Stakeholders in the education sector have called on the government to end stalemate with publishers to avoid a crisis ahead of Grade 10 rollout next year. The Kenya Publishers Association (KPA) has been demanding Sh 11.4 billion from the government accrued from the supply of books for grade 9 learners and…
