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Top Counties With Greatest Teacher Shortage

Top Counties With Greatest Teacher Shortage

New information also identifies the counties with the greatest teacher shortage.

It has also been discovered that Kakamega County’s secondary institutions have the nation’s largest teacher shortage.

There are 421 secondary schools and a shortage of 4,283 teachers in the county. The county should have 9,999 teachers, but only has 5,716.

Kisumu County, on the other hand, has a primary school teacher shortage of 4,317 across all of its 608 schools.

The county is short 6,230 of the required 10,547 teachers for its primary institutions.

Kitui County has the highest percentage of secondary schools without a substantive principal, with 68 schools out of 452 total institutions.

In Homa Bay county, 57 schools out of 333 lack a principal, while in Nakuru, 56 schools out of 373 secondary schools lack a head.

Bomet (55), Kakamega (53), West Pokot (53), Meru (50), and Migori (50) are also among the counties with the most secondary schools without heads.

This increases the total shortage of public primary and secondary school teachers to 103,077.

This is lower than the data provided by TSC last week during the introduction of its strategic plan.

According to TSC data, there is a teacher shortage of 111,870 tutors.

As part of its five-year strategic plan, the teacher’s employer requested an additional Sh78 billion to hire more teachers over the next five years.

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