A County Education Director has challenged teachers to use available resources to see the county excel academically.
Speaking at Old Town Hall in Nakuru Town on Wednesday during an education stakeholders’ forum, County director of education Esther Muiru noted that her office was ready to offer any assistance for projects aimed at improving education standards in the region.
“As stakeholders, we are ready to work with schools across the county to improve performance. So far, libraries and laboratories both scientific and art have been refurnished and equipped in different schools,” she said.
Muiru applauded the recent allocation of teachers to the county by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) saying that it will help deal with teacher shortage in different schools.
“Although the number was little, it is better than nothing. We will do a survey of understaffed institutions so that the teachers can be distributed adequately,” Muiru said.
She further cautioned private schools against employing quacks arguing that it was negatively impacting education standards in the county.
“We have very many qualified but unemployed teachers in the country. Some private schools are contravening our regulations as far as employing teaching staff is concerned. Government rules are very clear about the same,” she cautioned.
The meeting brought together representatives from the county, TSC, private schools association, parents association of Kenya and other education stakeholders.