[kictanet] Uwezo app

[Ory Okolloh]

Is there a link somewhere to the app?

Thanks,

Ory

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> Listers,
> Uwezo has deveoped a visualization tool on the distribution of teachers in
> the country.  If you carefully review this piece of open data, you will
> find that teachers had no case in the recent strike threat.  What is
> disturbing is the growing number of decisions made without proper
> scientific methods.
>
> I am glad media tried to dismiss the teachers' case.  What the public did
> not know is that once the contract teachers are confirmed, the same union
> officials will demand transfers for their relatives from marginal areas
> (often with teacher deficit) to surplus regions.  They will then use
> marginal or deficit areas to ask for more recruitments.  The cycle will
> continue.  Further the union dues will increase but education in marginal
> areas will decline.
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> Can we be ever embrace rational approaches to decision making especially
> on critical development programmes?  Where I come from teachers have
> outsourced their services as they do their businesses or visit relatives
> in far flung areas as in the US.  KNUT knows this and nobody bears
> responsibility on the declining standards.  There is no performance
> apparisal and if it was ever introduced 50% of teachers will go home.
> Last year myself and three other friends randomly gave the past KCPE exam
> to 10 teachers in five districts, only one scored 350.  We can do this on
> large scale but I doubt that the result will be any different.  Can we
> stand up and be counted on this.  Education is the foundation of any
> nation.
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> Regards
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> Ndemo.
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