The Senate Committee on Education now plans to introduce a bill to parliament that will allow Kenya to export teachers to Commonwealth countries as one way of addressing the rising number of unemployment in the country.
The committee said thousands of teachers were being trained at various levels of learning institutions only for them to remain unemployed noting that their skills would be required elsewhere.
The committee chairman Dr. Christopher Langat said time had come for the country to start thinking about the possibility of exporting the skills as one way of reducing the number of unemployed teachers.
Langat said several Commonwealth nations were being faced with teacher shortages adding that if Kenya is exporting nurses and other professions then teachers should also follow suit.
“The world has become a global village and we find nothing wrong if we can export talent and earn some money while bridging the gap of unemployed teachers in the country”.
Langat who is also the Bomet County Senator said the government could not employ thousands of teachers leaving learning institutions every year hence the need to export.
“We are committed to ensuring the knowledge we impart our teachers from colleges and universities does not end up in waste like it is the case where they stay for more than 10 years without gainful employment and this is the best option for the country”.
The senator was addressing the press when he met Bomet County Secondary School Principals who are holding their annual meeting at a Naivasha hotel.
Heat the same time decried the low levels of education in the south rift county saying they were alarmed and called for urgent measures to fix the situation.