Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) in Kangundo, Machakos County, has asked the government to address the shortage of teachers in the region, as most teachers prefer going to schools in urban centres.
Speaking in his office at Kangundo town, area Knut executive secretary Daniel Nginga said there is an acute shortage of teachers in both Kangundo and Matungulu sub-locations as many teachers from the area who have been trained prefer going to work in urban areas than helping schools situated in villages.
“The Teachers Service Commission should attend to the teacher shortage menace because most public secondary schools have a big population of students with very few TSC employed teachers who at most in each school are 6 or 7 in number therefore being over worked, ” said Nginga.
Nginga appealed to the County and National Governments to allocate more funds to education so that more teachers are employed.
The Knut boss stated that parents are being over-burdened as they are forced to pay the teachers employed under the Boards of Management.
“The State should address teachers’ shortage in Matungulu and Kangundo Sub-Counties as the region needs to employ more than 500 teachers so as to curb the acute shortage,” he said.