In the latest statement, if the Kwanza government in Kenya wins the elections on August 9, the relocation of teachers would be over. All this according to DP William Ruto to Kenyan teachers.
Since its implementation in 2018, the National Union of Teachers of Kenya and the Union of Teachers of Post-Primary Education of Kenya have opposed the relocation strategy.
The vice president said a new program that values teachers as a national resource will replace the current one.
He also indicated that the nationalization program would be put into practice, starting with the entry level of the occupation.
On Thursday, he spoke at the Kenya Kwanza Education Forum of the Catholic University of East Africa.
The DP further stated that his administration will actively assist children in disadvantaged communities where teachers are insufficient.
In order to increase the number of instructors from those regions, we will actively offer scholarships and opportunities to residents of those regions, including the Northeast, to enroll in our teaching institutes and colleges.
This, according to the vice president, will ensure incentives for the project to relocate instructors from other areas to less-served districts.
In order to alleviate the current anxiety that families and teachers are experiencing, this will promote the national nature of our teachers.
Furthermore, the UDA presidential candidate said that in order to increase access to education, he will adopt a minimum package essential for schools with low enrollment.
Following the significant deployments in April, August and December of the same year, the teacher relocation initiative was launched in January 2018.
After numerous complaints that the transfers were separating families, TSC CEO Nancy Macharia said in April 2019 that only instructors married to their colleagues would be exempt from the transfers.
