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Kenya: Why Teachers Are Busy to Seeking Greener Pastures Elsewhere
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The Nation (Nairobi)
OPINION
7 May 2008
Posted to the web 7 May 2008
Nairobi
It is true that many teachers contemplate leaving the service at the earliest opportunity.
This is because their situation as employees of the Teacher Service Commission (TSC) is not very accommodating.
It beats logic to struggle all the way to the university and be frustrated by accounts clerks at every stage.
It frustrates to urge students to study hard, yet they sympathise with teachers' poor lifestyles.
Teachers are forever committed, leaving them with little or no time for invest in other areas.
Most teachers are intimidated by the school principals and end up suffering from inferiority complex. Some principals demand so much, but offer the least support.
Some are masters of double standards, especially in their deals with the local ethnic-based parents and teachers associations and the boards of governors.
If the trend of massive teachers' movement to other professions is to be reversed, there is much that has to be worked on.
We hope for the best, but must always prepare for the worst.
MWANJE WAM'MASI,
Kakamega.
I support Mr Albert Omae from Kisii on his sentiments about the Nation Newspapers great influence on education.
As he rightly put it, the Nation is widely read in local primary schools.
But there are some schools that he did not name, which do not do well in the national exams.
My request to Mr Omae is to ensure that he spreads this good news about the Nation to such schools so that they can excel in exams.
ERICK OMWOYO
Nairobi.
I write this with a heavy heart. It is one year since I successfully cleared my studies at Masinde Muliro University, Kakamega.
Since then, no serious word about our graduation has been forthcoming from the administration.
The group that was behind us is finishing in two weeks.
We cannot get jobs without certificates. For how long should we suffer?
Must the university administrators subject us to all this suffering?
We need our case to be highlighted so that we can get justice like the prison warders recently.
CONCERNED STUDENT,
Kitale.
Thank God, the Higher Education Loans Boards (Helb) is always there to help us needy students.
However, there is a dire need for the board to increase the loan it offers to students.
I am not writing this to take advantage of the situation where government employees (even the Disciplined Forces are agitating for increments), but to show a feeling of shared opinion.
The money has become quite inadequate to sustain us on the campus.
An Environmental Health student, for instance, gets Sh45, 000 as Helb loan annually. But the same student pays a total of Sh35,000 to the university, leaving him with only Sh10,000.
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This is the money to be spent on accommodation, clothing, stationery, food and others.
JUMA OMBUYA,
Nairobi.
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