Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) Narok branch has decried limited time that was allocated to stakeholders in the Elimu Mashinani Stakeholders Forum, recently rolled out county-based stakeholders’ forums on education organized by the Ministry of Education in partnership with Royal Media Service’s Citizen TV.
Speaking to Education News, KUPPET Narok Executive Secretary Charles Ng’eno stated that the first edition of the forum which was held yesterday September 3, 2025 at Maasai Mara University only gave time to Ministry of Education (MoE) top officials and sidelined the unions, teacher associations, and other education stakeholders.
“When the Education CS and PS came and they take more than three-quarter of the session talking, then they can as well stay in Nairobi. Stakeholders had serious issues to raise but we never got time, the time allocated was very little. The forum is good, but now allow the stakeholders to talk because if we are talking of Mashinani and the only voice which is heard is from the national leadership cadre, then we miss the point,” said Ng’eno.
“Let the issues come from Mashinani, let the people from Nairobi came and listen to people on the ground and go back to implement what we are telling them. When you give the union one minute to talk, and you’ve not given KNUT, KESSHA, KEPSHA, what is that?” he questioned.
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According to Ng’eno, the union had serious issues to raise especially touching on the whole issue of delay in capitation and Principals being asked to submit details regarding students data every other time, the issues touching on transfer of Junior School teachers, and politicization in the hiring of teachers.
“As a union, we needed to ask the TSC what is the transfer policy for Junior School teachers? Every other time junior school teachers want to swap or transfer, they are told there is no transfer policy in place. Three years down the line, we are talking of luck of transfer policy for Junior School teachers,” remarked Ng’eno.
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“We also needed to ask the CS, what is his take on the interference of teachers in the management of our schools? Why are we allowing politicians to employ teachers which is the mandate of TSC? Why are we allowing politicians to have a big say on who to become a principal on which school? Have they been allowed to take up the responsibilities of the TSC? These were the things we wanted to raise among others, but we were not given time to do that,” he added.
The recently rolled out forum will focus on promotion of public awareness where it will appraise stakeholders on key reforms in the education sector and the status of their implementation, stakeholder engagement through providing a platform for dialogue with stakeholders on key education matters.
It will also provide feedback platform for criticizing education policies and programmes and gather feedback in order to inform policy review and refinement, disseminate factual information and mitigating misinformation, and promote transparency and accountability in compliance with Constitutional and legal obligations of public participation and right to information.
By Hezron Roy
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