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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Should we try the school district/county management approach, where we appoint a district/county school CEO who recruits not based on KNUT/Tribal, etc demands, but rather based on the $$ power of the county region? Which is where electing the RIGHT governor comes in?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Edwin<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> kictanet-bounces+eonchari=lynxbits.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke [mailto:kictanet-bounces+eonchari=lynxbits.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mark Mwangi<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 27, 2011 8:39 PM<br><b>To:</b> Edwin<br><b>Cc:</b> k-internetusers@bdix.net; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [kictanet] Vizualisations on Student Teacher Ratio<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p>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. <o:p></o:p></p><p>The data should be marketed like any other product. The union would have no say in the face of cold hard data. <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Sep 27, 2011 7:12 PM, "lordmwesh" <<a href="mailto:lordmwesh@gmail.com">lordmwesh@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> This is very saddening<br>> <br>> We randomly gave the past KCPE exam to 10 teachers in five districts, only<br>> one scored 350 - Bitange Ndemo<br>> <br>> On 22 September 2011 20:32, <<a href="mailto:bitange@jambo.co.ke">bitange@jambo.co.ke</a>> wrote:<br>> <br>>> 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>>><br>>> 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>>><br>>> 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>>><br>>><br>>> Regards<br>>><br>>><br>>> Ndemo.<br>>><br>>><br>>><br>>><br>>> ----------------------------------------------<br>>> This message has been scanned for viruses and<br>>> dangerous content by Jambo MailScanner, and is<br>>> believed to be clean.<br>>> ---------------------------------------------<br>>> "easy access to the world"<br>>><br>>><br>>> ----------------------------------------------<br>>> This message has been scanned for viruses and<br>>> dangerous content by Jambo MailScanner, and is<br>>> believed to be clean.<br>>> ---------------------------------------------<br>>> "easy access to the world"<br>>><br>>><br>>> _______________________________________________<br>>> kictanet mailing list<br>>> <a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><br>>> <a href="http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet">http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet</a><br>>><br>>> Unsubscribe or change your options at<br>>> <a href="http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/lordmwesh%40gmail.com">http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/lordmwesh%40gmail.com</a><br>>><br>>> The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform for<br>>> people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and<br>>> regulation. 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