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"content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, first of all, regarding the case in West Pokot, in my statement, I said that the shortage is not only in West Pokot, it is in the entire country. It stands at 87,000 teachers. The problem is shortage. The key word is “shortage.” So, if the shortage were to be generalized, it would affect West Pokot, Murang’a and everywhere else because we do not have enough teachers. Concerning the disparity in figures, it could be as a result of different matrix systems and the time when they are received at the TSC. If professor has a different figure from what I have, I am sure what I have should be upheld as true because I am reading a statement form the TSC. So, anything else can be included or excluded as time goes by. On the issue of shortage of secondary schools, Sen. Sang has answered Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo. When new secondary schools are opened, information between the county offices and the TSC might take some time. So, at the county level, there are some new schools and that information has not been relayed to the TSC because it has to go through the Ministry of Education in Jogoo House. In that case, you may find that there is a disparity between the number of teachers who are to be posted to post-primary institutions and the figures that we might have in the county offices. However, we are asking the County Director of Education, the TSC and the Ministry of Education to make sure that new schools - and this is what is happening today - they have already regularized the registration of schools such that if a school is opened in a county, that information is relayed to the TSC immediately. It is not like before where some secondary schools were opened through the Ministry of Education and it took too long for TSC to note. That has already been rectified. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, concerning the 5,000 additional teachers, this is the policy. The other day, my Committee had asked the Cabinet Secretary for Education to state whether that figure is enough. He stated that, that was the figure the Government would provide. It is on the lower side, but it is according to the Medium Term Plan II. That is the system. So, in this case, we had requested more than 20,000 teachers to be employed, but the Cabinet Secretary stated that 5,000 were to be recruited. The other thing is about rationalization. It is true that there is a big problem in some schools. They even continued adding classes. Some schools are registered to have two streams, but within short time they increase them to three, four or five streams. That is due to more students joining the schools. In such a situation, head teachers have to inform the TSC immediately that they have new streams, which takes time. So, by the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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