An MP has decried a shortage of teachers as an impediment to the goals of The Competency-Based Curriculum.
Kilifi North MP Owen Baya now says that the ministry of education might not achieve the desired results of the CBC in Kilifi County due to the shortage of teachers.
Mr Baya said Kilifi county stands disadvantaged due to a shortage of teachers to implement the curriculum.
Speaking when he issued bursaries worth Sh18.8 million to 2,673 students from Kilifi north, Baya said his constituency alone has a deficit of 2,000 teachers.
“8.4.4 messed the education system in Kenya. CBC is here to fix it but as a county we may not get the intended results. Our students may not compete fairly with other regions because we have a big shortage of teachers. To make this a success we need more teachers,” he said
He urged TSC to deploy more teachers to the county if the county is to compete fairly with other regions.
He further said education in the county is expensive than in other areas because parents are forced to employ more teachers through the Board of Management.
Baya said a school like Bahari girls’ high school has employed 10 teachers who are being paid by parents.
“If a national school has such a big deficit what about the extra county schools. The burden of employing these teachers is now pushed to the parents. This should be a wake-up call to TSC to employ more teachers in Kilifi,” he added
The county also has a shortage of infrastructure to accommodate the Junior high school classes.
According to one of the parents Mr Birya Menza, he said that parents have been forced to shoulder other levies which are sometimes illegal but because they want to see their children to succeed, they have no option but to pay.
“Right now we have children who are still at home because of lack of fees. The government is paying some amount but students are still sent home,” he said.
Education CS George Magoha last week said the government had released Ksh 16 billion to school to make CBC a success.
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