The Global Teacher’s Prize award winner for 2019, Mr. Peter Tabichi, has landed another international role.The Franciscan Brother and teacher at Keriko Secondary Mixed Day Secondary School in Njoro, Nakuru County, will join the new Global Students Prize Academy. His appointment to this role was announced on Tuesday.

The Varkey Foundation, in a statement, announced that Mr Tabichi has joined actors Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis as well as sporting heroes Zach and Julie Ertz in becoming members of the judging panel that will pick the winner of the new Chegg.org Global Student Prize.

According to the foundation, Mr Tabichi, a science and mathematics teacher, met the threshold of having a history of mentoring his students in their studies or careers, having campaigned for student issues and having expertise in education and young people.

“Peter Tabichi, who donates 80 per cent of his salary to the poor, helped turn lives around at his school, mentored his pupils to win national and international science and engineering fairs.

“By making his students believe in themselves, Mr Tabichi dramatically improved their achievement and self-esteem, doubling his school enrolment over three years and boosting the numbers going on to university,” read the statement.

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The $50,000 Chegg.org Global Student Prize award is a sister award to the Global Teacher Prize and aims at creating a powerful new platform to highlight the efforts of extraordinary students throughout the world that are making a real impact on learning, the lives of their peers and on society beyond.

The applications and nominations for the award were closed on Sunday.

The Global Student Prize Academy will pick the ultimate winner of the Sh5,000,000 award, who will be announced at a live ceremony in Paris in November.

While accepting the nomination, Mr Tabichi said the students’ prize will help give a voice to the African learners to help them tell their stories as well as showcase their great potential.

“As a frontline teacher in Africa, I have been privileged to witness the promise of the continent’s young people, their curiosity and talent, their intelligence and belief,” stated Mr Tabichi.

Mr Tabichi becam famous after winning the Sh100 million global teacher’s award in 2019.

He then went on to land an ambassadorial role when he was appointed as the Dettol Soap hero brand ambassador for 2020.

He later proceeded to bag another international award in 2020 after being conferred the 2020 Ahimsa Award by the trustees of the Institute of Jainology in London.

This year’s Global Teacher of the year award shifts to India.  Ranjitsinh Disale, a 31 year old primary school teacher in India has won the highly coveted prize.

Disale, who developed quick-response coded textbooks for his pupils, bagged Sh111 million in prize money, when he emerged this year’s best Teacher globally. This follows the results of the 2020 Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize, announced during a virtual ceremony held on 3^rd December 2020.

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Traditionally, the annual award is given to an educator who has made an outstanding contribution to the profession.

Disale replaces Peter Mokaya Tabichi, a Kenyan mathematics and physics teacher at Keriko Mixed Secondary School in Nakuru County, who won the award last year.

Tabichi was recorded in books of history as the first African teacher to bag the so much desired global award and also as the first-ever male teacher to win the Sh. 100 million award.

Recently, Tabichi  won the 2020 Ahimsa Award by the Trustees of the Institute of Jainology in London for selfless action and compassion.

Mr. Disale, Tabichi’s successor, has received praises for championing girl child education in rural India and embracing the use of technology in teaching.

“This is such a great honour. I am receiving this award on behalf of millions of  students and teachers, who are working hard in these hard times of Covid. Teachers are change-makers. They change the lives of students all over the world,” said Mr. Disale.

This year, the global TOYA attracted over 12,000 nominations and applications from 140 countries. Mr. Disale’s teaching environment is located exactly between a cattle shed and a storeroom, in an area where teenage marriage is prevalent, but he still championed tirelessly for girl child education.

“The curriculum was not in the students’ primary language (Kannada), which meant that many students were unable to achieve expected learning outcomes. After putting in a great deal of effort, Ranjitsinh learned Kannada,” said Varkey Foundation.

Mr. Disale is also credited with redesigning all the textbooks of grades 1-4 for better comprehension, along with unique QR codes that embedded audio poems, video lectures, stories and assignments in Kannada.

Through his efforts, the school was the best in the district in 2016, and 98 per cent of the girls completed school.

Initially, Disale was awarded 2016 Innovative Researcher of the Year in India and the National Innovation Foundation’s Innovator of the Year in 2018

Disale confirms he will give sh. 55,000,000 to the other nine finalists so that they share among themselves.

He also plans to launch an initiative to ensure that each year; at least 5000 students from war-afflicted countries are recruited into a Peace Army.