<br>Is there a link somewhere to the app? <div><br></div><div>Thanks, </div><div><br></div><div>Ory</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 7:24 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kictanet-request@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet-request@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Listers,<br>
Uwezo has deveoped a visualization tool on the distribution of teachers in<br>
the country. If you carefully review this piece of open data, you will<br>
find that teachers had no case in the recent strike threat. What is<br>
disturbing is the growing number of decisions made without proper<br>
scientific methods.<br>
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I am glad media tried to dismiss the teachers' case. What the public did<br>
not know is that once the contract teachers are confirmed, the same union<br>
officials will demand transfers for their relatives from marginal areas<br>
(often with teacher deficit) to surplus regions. They will then use<br>
marginal or deficit areas to ask for more recruitments. The cycle will<br>
continue. Further the union dues will increase but education in marginal<br>
areas will decline.<br>
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Can we be ever embrace rational approaches to decision making especially<br>
on critical development programmes? Where I come from teachers have<br>
outsourced their services as they do their businesses or visit relatives<br>
in far flung areas as in the US. KNUT knows this and nobody bears<br>
responsibility on the declining standards. There is no performance<br>
apparisal and if it was ever introduced 50% of teachers will go home.<br>
Last year myself and three other friends randomly gave the past KCPE exam<br>
to 10 teachers in five districts, only one scored 350. We can do this on<br>
large scale but I doubt that the result will be any different. Can we<br>
stand up and be counted on this. Education is the foundation of any<br>
nation.<br>
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Ndemo.<br>
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