Is there a link somewhere to the app? Thanks, Ory On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 7:24 PM, <kictanet-request@lists.kictanet.or.ke>wrote:

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1. Vizualisations on Student Teacher Ratio (bitange@jambo.co.ke)

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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.

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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