By Achola Matthews
Science teachers and mathematics in Bungoma County have been urged to encourage students to embrace science subjects so as to assist the country achieve Vision 2030 goals.
Speaking at Bungoma Boys High School during a one-week SMASSE training forum the Bungoma South County Director of Educaton, Mr Elijah Eddie said the programme will ensure Kenya realizes various achievements in industrialization through scientific innovation and inventions by students.
“If our students enroll in large numbers for science subjects and Mathematics we would be assured of attainment of the objectives set out under Vision 2030,” Mr Eddie noted.
He decried the small number of students registering for science subjects such as Physics in the national exams and urged teachers to avoid spoon-feeding their students if they want them to excel.
On his part, Bungoma High School Principal, Mr Samuel Kaunda thanked the Ministry of Education through the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) for choosing the school as one of the SMASSE training centres in Bungoma County. Kaunda noted that his administration is up to the task and would ensure the students acquire better laboratory equipment so as to excel in their future careers programmes. Also present was Kuppet’s Bungoma County Branch Secretary, Mrs Claire Wanjala who thanked the TSC for recognizing SMASSE certificates unlike in the past whereby employers did not capture SMASSE as a tool of professional and career development amongst science subject teachers.
According to Clotilda Nyongesa, a trainer in Mathematics in Bungoma County, SMASSE brings on board training of teachers with at least 21 years in teaching experience.
