The Teachers Service Commission, TSC, is set to reward 43 teachers for exemplary performance and long service. The teachers, most of whom, have been examiners for a period of more than 20 years will, apart from receiving promotions from the employer, have their names presented to the President, HE Uhuru Kenyatta, for further recognition and awards. These revelations were made by TSC Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Nancy Macharia, during the releasing exercise of this year’s Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education, KCSE, results on Friday.
“This year, I wish to recognize these forty (teachers) who have consistently rendered exemplary services as examiners for twenty years and above. Over the years they have risen to the positions of either chief examiners or assistant chief examiners. The TSC will be recognizing them in line with the Commission’s policy on recognition and award. And, in addition, we shall also be forwarding their names to his excellency the President (Uhuru Kenyatta) to confer them with awards and honours,” Said Dr. Macharia.
The teachers to be feted are:
Jane Wangui G
Marion Kithinji
Gikonyo GM
Oyuga B. Asioya
Barasa W. Enos
Gitabari J. Njagi
Mugoh N. Simon
Muhindi J. K
Muluka S. Nzilu
Matu W. Grace
Mohammed A. Ali
Omoro Moses
Kipyegon S. Benard
Muchwanju O. Moses
Ngahu K. Benjamin
Vincent Mulure
Nyaanga Zachary
Christopher Kulei
Motanya Isaac
Mutambo K. Albert
Eunice M. Mashaka
Nyariki R. Orina
Said O. Hinga
Khamis M. Omar
Kezia Ochieng
Chege Agnes Wangui
Catherine K. Mavyala
Denis K. Ibala
Gabriel K. Kinyoho
Kiruga S. Nduta
Sunday 30 December 2018
Friday 21 December 2018
How to receive KCSE 2018 examination results online or via SMS
1. Visit the KNEC schools’ portal by clicking on: https://www.knec-portal.ac.ke/. This will take you to the KNEC schools’ portal home page.
2. Under the ‘SECONDARY SCHOOLS (KCSE)’ tab, click on Performance analysis link.
3. In the next window, indicated as; KCSE- PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS, enter the User name and password as used during the registration process. Now log into the portal and the results will be displayed there in terms of mean grade summary and Aggregate point Summary.
4. To download the results, click on the export icon on the window and select your preferred format i.e PDF, word, excel….
The results will download automatically, once you select the format.
How to receive the results via SMS
1. Go to Compose New SMS in your phone.
2. Type your full KCSE 2018 index Number.
3. Send the SMS to 20076.
Please send the SMS once the results have been announced. Each SMS costs KShs. 25
Monday 17 December 2018
MODERN PHYSICS (theories of relativity and quantum physics)
Physicists often refer to the theories of relativity and quantum physics as “modern physics,” to distinguish them from the theories of Newtonian mechanics and Maxwellian electromagnetism, which are lumped together as “classical physics.” As the years go by, the word “modern” seems less and less appropriate for theories whose foundations were laid down in the opening years of the 20th century. After all, Einstein published his paper on the photoelectric effect and his first paper on special relativity in 1905, Bohr published his quantum model of the hydrogen atom in 1913, and Schrödinger published his matter wave equation in 1926. Nevertheless, the label of “modern physics” hangs on.
All in all, two lines of investigation are truly “modern”, but at the same time have the most ancient of roots. They center around two deceptively simple questions:
What is the universe made of?
How did the universe come to be the way it is?
Progress in answering these questions has been rapid in the last few decades. Many new insights are based on experiments carried out with large particle accelerators. However, as they bang particles together at higher and higher energies using larger and larger accelerators, physicists come to realize that no conceivable Earth-bound accelerator that can generate particles with energies great enough to test the ultimate theories of physics. There has been only one source of particles with these energies, and that was the universe itself within the first millisecond of its existence.
In the 1930s, there were many scientists who thought that the problem of the ultimate structure of matter was well on the way to being solved. The atom could be understood in terms of only three particles—the electron, the proton, and the neutron. Quantum physics accounted well for the structure of the atom and for radioactive alpha decay.
The euphoria did not last. By the end of that same decade, there was discoveries of a host of new terms and a veritable flood of particles (such as muon, pion, kaon, and sigma), names that you should not try to remember. All the new particles are unstable; that is, they spontaneously transform into other types of particles according to the same functions of time that apply to unstable nuclei.
If you are temporarily bewildered, you are sharing the bewilderment of the physicists who lived through these developments and who at times saw nothing but increasing complexity with little hope of understanding. If you stick with it, however, you will come to share the excitement physicists felt as marvelous new accelerators poured out new results, as the theorists put forth ideas each more daring than the last, and as clarity finally sprang from obscurity.
All in all, two lines of investigation are truly “modern”, but at the same time have the most ancient of roots. They center around two deceptively simple questions:
What is the universe made of?
How did the universe come to be the way it is?
Progress in answering these questions has been rapid in the last few decades. Many new insights are based on experiments carried out with large particle accelerators. However, as they bang particles together at higher and higher energies using larger and larger accelerators, physicists come to realize that no conceivable Earth-bound accelerator that can generate particles with energies great enough to test the ultimate theories of physics. There has been only one source of particles with these energies, and that was the universe itself within the first millisecond of its existence.
In the 1930s, there were many scientists who thought that the problem of the ultimate structure of matter was well on the way to being solved. The atom could be understood in terms of only three particles—the electron, the proton, and the neutron. Quantum physics accounted well for the structure of the atom and for radioactive alpha decay.
The euphoria did not last. By the end of that same decade, there was discoveries of a host of new terms and a veritable flood of particles (such as muon, pion, kaon, and sigma), names that you should not try to remember. All the new particles are unstable; that is, they spontaneously transform into other types of particles according to the same functions of time that apply to unstable nuclei.
If you are temporarily bewildered, you are sharing the bewilderment of the physicists who lived through these developments and who at times saw nothing but increasing complexity with little hope of understanding. If you stick with it, however, you will come to share the excitement physicists felt as marvelous new accelerators poured out new results, as the theorists put forth ideas each more daring than the last, and as clarity finally sprang from obscurity.
The main message of this piece of writing is that, although we know a lot about the physics of the world, grand mysteries remain.
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