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    "id": 99626,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/99626/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Olweny",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Education",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 122,
        "legal_name": "Patrick Ayiecho Olweny",
        "slug": "patrick-olweny"
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The attached tables show teacher vacancies per school and per division in Kuresoi district totalling 812; that means 630 for primary schools and 182 for secondary schools. That is the teacher shortage in Kuresoi District. (b) The teacher shortage is currently standing at 66,000 teachers; that are 43,000 teachers for primary schools and 23,000 teachers for secondary schools is both a national and global problem facing other countries in Asia, Latin America and Anglophones. This problem can only be effectively and permanently addressed through massive recruitment of teachers. However, this plan has been hampered by lack of funds from the Treasury. Meanwhile the Ministry is undertaking the following measures to reduce teachers staffing shortfalls in Kuresoi district: Recruiting eight teachers for primary schools and nine teachers for secondary schools under the normal annual replacement exercise; conducting staff balancing and rationalising exercise for schools with acute shortage of over eight teachers and above; freezing registration of new schools and merging new schools to utilize available teachers, the DEB will start consolidating the schools; introducing e- learning programme to reduce teacher/student ratio; hiring part time teachers by board of governors and parents teachers associations and lastly formulating a redeployment policy for teachers to achieve equity and better utilization of teachers."
}