27-06-2017, 04:54 PM
Tambach Teachers College is a university in Tambach, Elgeyo-Marakwet County, Kenya. It is one of the 20 primary public school colleges in Kenya and among the last five such institutions built in the late 1980s by the Kenyan government with the support of the World Bank. The university is located in the Kerio escarpment section of Elgeyo-Marakwet County along the Eldoret-Kabarnet highway. The school is 43 km from Eldoret and 11 km from Iten, the district's headquarters.
The school opened its doors to the first batch of 372 students in September 1991. These comprised nine classes, six of P1 grade, two of P2 and one of grade P3. Since 1996, the university has been training only P1 students.
Teacher training in Tambach began in the 1940s. The course was offered in what was then known as the Tambach African School of Government on the site of the current Tambach School today, which began in 1928. The school then Trained the teachers of the T3 and T4 grades.
It was here that retired President Daniel Arap Moi served as tutor and head of the institution between 1948 and 1955 when he left teaching to join the colonial legislative council after his election as a representative of the Rift Valley council.
In 1957, the name of the institution was changed to Tambach Training College. In 1964, the university was amalgamated with the University of Mosoriot Teachers following the recommendations of the Ominde Education Commission on Teacher Training.
Tambach, therefore, ceased to be a College of Teachers and resulted to be the first form of a consumption class that ushered in the current Tambach High School day. The school still uses many of the former university buildings including staff houses. Among these is the one that ex-President Moi lived.
