Sh273bn too little for schools - Knut

The Kenya National Union of Teachers yesterday said the money allocated to the education sector is too little. The government allocated Sh130 billion to the Ministry of Education and Sh143 billion to the Teachers Service Commission. Addressing a press conference at his office their office, Knut chairman Wilson Sossion said the total sum combined is only 15 per cent of the national budget and is not enough to hire new teachers yet the country has a shortage of 100,000 teachers. “The estimates submitted to Parliament do not favour the education sector. We need an additional Sh15.2 billion to...