Kenya National Union of Teachers ( KNUT) Secretary General Wilson Sossion on Thursday asked the Ministry of Education and other stakeholders to join forces in ending education crisis in the North Eastern Region.
Sossion advocated for training and recruitment of teachers from this region.
This comes after parents and other groups lamented over poor education services following the mass transfer of teachers from this region over insecurity. He also said that every Kenyan child is entitled to an education.
“Northern Kenya has a community, it has children who must be taught and also has children who should have been made teachers. The UNESCO/ILO standards require that every community must be assisted to train their own teachers,” he stressed.
He also said that the union has written a letter to Education CS Amina Mohammed, asking her to speed up her quest to solve the issue.
He further said that he has advocated for the reduction of cut off points for teachers from this region
“We have written to CS Amina Mohamed to reduce the cut off entry points for teacher trainees from the region to grade D+ but we are happy with the Kenya qualification framework which has indicated the cut of points for this region as grade D Plain,” he said.
Terror attacks and communal clashes have forced many teachers to ask for transfers from this region.