[kictanet] Vizualisations on Student Teacher Ratio

[robert yawe]

Hi,

The buck stops with us the ICT community, the journalists cannot help because their single degree does not give them the skills to be analytical.

Keeping an issue on the forefront in the mass media domain is not possible but keeping an issue alive indefinitely online can be done so lets use the Opendata to shame KNUT and other unions and associations that keep feeding us male cow dung.

Unfortunately I do not have the skills otherwise I would have developed a dashboard that gives the information in a way that any KBF would understand with time the mainstream media will have not choice but to carry the information.

Regards
 
Robert Yawe
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Subject: Re: [kictanet] Vizualisations on Student Teacher Ratio


This is rather disheartening seeing as the media did not shop around for such data. The teachers officials are just doing what their predecessors did whether it belongs in the last century or not. 
The data should be marketed like any other product. The union would have no say in the face of cold hard data. 
On Sep 27, 2011 7:12 PM, "lordmwesh" <lordmwesh at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is very saddening
> 
> We randomly gave the past KCPE exam to 10 teachers in five districts, only
> one scored 350 - Bitange Ndemo
> 
> On 22 September 2011 20:32, <bitange at jambo.co.ke> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
>> Ndemo.
>>
>>
>>
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