{"id":21989,"date":"2026-01-14T02:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T02:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/21989\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T02:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T02:56:09","slug":"placement-hiccups-teacher-shortage-mar-grade-10-rollout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/21989\/","title":{"rendered":"Placement hiccups, teacher shortage mar Grade 10 rollout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4c642d42-d81f-4969-8bdb-786dd808eb59.jpeg\" class=\"ui-draggable ui-draggable-handle\" style=\"max-width: 100%; width: 100%;\"\/>Learners\/COURTESY<\/p>\n<p>When more than 1.1 million learners&#13;<br \/>\nreported to school on Monday for the inaugural Grade 10 intake under the&#13;<br \/>\nCompetency-Based Education system, the expectation was that Kenya\u2019s&#13;<br \/>\nlong-troubled education reform would finally enter a stable phase.<\/p>\n<p>This is premium contentSubscribe to Continue Reading<img alt=\"Subscription\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"307\" height=\"169\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"h-auto w-44 lg:w-60\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/subscribe_banner.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Help us continue bringing you unbiased news, in-depth investigations, and diverse perspectives. Your subscription keeps our mission alive and empowers us to provide high-quality, trustworthy journalism. Join us today to make a difference!<\/p>\n<p>Already Subscribed? <a class=\"text-secondary underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-star.co.ke\/account?redirectTo=%2Fnews%2F2026-01-14-placement-hiccups-teacher-shortage-mar-grade-10-rollout\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Learners\/COURTESY When more than 1.1 million learners&#13; reported to school on Monday for the inaugural Grade 10 intake&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1437,80,351,352,98,100,353,13656,101,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-21989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kenya","8":"tag-grade-10","9":"tag-kenya","10":"tag-kenya-news","11":"tag-star","12":"tag-star-news","13":"tag-star-news-kenya","14":"tag-star-newspaper-kenya","15":"tag-teachers","16":"tag-the-star","17":"tag-the-star-newspaper"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}