Kenya: Government Announces 6,000 New Teacher Jobs; Unions Unhappy

Six thousand new teachers are to be employed by next month, the Kenyan Government announced this week. Five thousand will be hired for primary schools, with the remaining 1,000 going to secondary schools. More teachers are needed to tackle the shortage caused by free primary education last year which has seen pupil numbers increase by 1.4 million to 7.3 million. Unions immediately termed the number to be hired as a drop in the ocean and said there was a shortage of more than 60,000 teachers.