By Kamundia Muriithi
Embu County Government will in June recruit over 200 Early Childhood Development and Education (ECDE) teachers in readiness for the new curriculum.
The County will also employ 30 tutors for its vocational training centres. County Education Executive Committee member John Kiamati said the new teachers would handle children in their two years in pre-school.
This will bring the number of ECDE teachers employed by the county to about 680 against a population of about 17,000 young learners. Kiamati said their projection is to have 900 teachers to be able to achieve the required ratio to fill in the 495 ECDE centres across the county.
Five EDCE officers will also be employed to help the existing nine to help in monitoring and supervising the teachers.
The county has 25 vocational centres and over 1,500 students and about 100 instructors.
