Governors want TSC to punish teachers for skipping classes to attend burials

Participants during last week's three day Kisii and Nyamira counties education conference. Speakers urged a task-force formed to look into challenges affecting education in the region to ignore political and clan interferences. [PHOTO: STANDARD]

KISII COUNTY: Leaders from Kisii region want the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to crack the whip on teachers who abscond duty in the name of mourning the dead.

They made the demand at an education conference held at Kisii University. The conference brought together education stakeholders to discuss factors affecting academic standards in the region.