Kenya National Union of Teachers Secretary General Wilson Sossion
has urged the Teachers Services Commission (TSC) and the ministry of education
to engage teachers for a better 2020 academic calendar.
Speaking in Mombasa during the annual Kenya Primary Schools
Head Teachers Association, Sossion said he will continue clinging on the global
platform of campaigning for quality public education.
The SG also called on the ministry to look into the mushrooming
of private schools in the country, saying they destroy quality of education to
public institution.
“I hope Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha and TSC
will engage all of us so that we can work better in 2020. I sit on the global
platform of campaigning for quality public education and fighting
privatization, we must unite for quality education there’s no other option,”
said Sossion.
He said that the union is not at any war with government,
citing past stance on the teachers training to undertake the Competency Based
Curriculum (CBC).
“It is not political for us to ask for proper training for
everyone from head teachers to class room teachers so that we can deliver. You
must also be given quality teaching and learning tools because it is a
completely different curriculum. Interpreting CBC designs and teaching, you
must capacity-build teachers, it must be intensive preparation so that we can
deliver well,” he said
Mr. Sossion added that the greatest challenge in the
education sector at the moment is privatization, urging head teachers to stand
firm and defend public schools.
“Our biggest disease is privatization, mushrooming all over
and even some of the investors are putting up poor schools next to every
primary school to destroy our institutions. We must defend our public schools
and we have the capacity to do it,”
The 15th annual delegates’ conference held at the Kenya
School of Revenue Administration saw more than 7,500 head teachers attend.
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