Kenya: Recruit Teachers Urgently

editorial

Nairobi — The government's move to replace only 2,800 teachers who left service through natural attrition is hardly the best way to deal with a crisis that threatens to drastically lower the quality of learning in public schools.

It is disappointing that Education minister Sam Ongeri announced a figure that is 30 times less than the existing shortage of more than 60,000 teachers.

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