How often do you wash your towel? Some people wash once a week, while some, once a year. The towel is a fertile breeding ground for millions of microbes, especially those found on human skin and on the gut. No wonder the towel is one of the objects that facilitate fecal-oral contamination (literally connecting the two ends of the gut). Worse still, most people keep towels in the bathroom (near the toilet). Every flush of the toilet sends mist with millions of microbes, ranging from H.pylori, salmonella and other deadly bacteria and viruses. When you wash your hands ready for a meal, and dry them with your body towel, there's high chance you are directly ingesting your fecal matter, or, if in a shared lavatory, someone else's faeces. Unless cleaned well, viruses such as human papillomavirus (causes warts, anal cancer and cervical cancer) can be transmitted when towels are shared with infected individuals. So, what to do? 1. Launder towels once a week. 2. Use hot water and det...
The new 2-6-3-3-3 Education System was
proposed by a task force headed by Former
Moi University Vice Chancellor Douglas
Odhiambo. The primary education will be
split into two categories; Pre primary which
will take two years and Primary education
Then students will advance to Junior
secondary school which will take three years
and later proceed to senior secondary school
which will take three years too.At the
senior level they will spend another three
years focusing on their areas of
specialization depending on their abilities
After senior secondary school, the students
will enroll at vocational training centres or
The system puts more emphasis on
Continuous Assessment Tests (CATs) rather
than the end of cycle tests. It is focused on
examinations. The focus of the system is to
equip learners with skills rather than
making than cram for the examination.
The system(2-6-3-3-3 Education system)
gives students in secondary school a chance
to specialise in the subjects they wish to
pursue in tertiary institutions and learning
areas have been divided into three
categories: arts and sports, social sciences
and science and technology, engineering and
Under sports, students will pursue games,
performing arts and visual arts while social
science options will be languages and
literature, humanities and business studies.
The third option will have pure and applied
sciences, engineering and technical studies.
Subjects to be taught in lower primary will
include literacy, Kiswahili, English and
indigenous languages, as well as
mathematical and environmental activities
(science, social and agriculture activities).
In upper primary, pupils will be taught
Kiswahili, English, home science,
agriculture, science and technology,
mathematics, religious studies, moral and
life skills, creative arts (art, craft and
music), physical and health education, social
studies (citizenship, geography and history)
with an option of foreign languages (Arabic,
French, German, Chinese) and indigenous
At junior secondary, a learner will be
required to take the 12 core subjects —
including English, Kiswahili, mathematics,
integrated science, health education, pre-
technical and pre-vocational education,
social studies, religious education, business
studies, agriculture, life skills education,
sports and physical education.
They will also take a minimum of one and a
maximum of two subjects according to
personalities, abilities, interests and career
The optional subjects are home science,
computer science, performing arts, foreign
languages, Kenya Sign Language, indigenous
In senior secondary, a student will take two
core subjects irrespective of the pathway
They include community service learning
(life skills, citizenship, entrepreneurship,
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