Dialogue best way out of industrial action threat by teachers’ union

Education CS Amina Mohamed(R) with her PS Bellio Kipsang when they appeared before the National Assembly Education Committee on on the rape case of Moi Girls at Parliament. [File: Boniface Okendo,Standard]

Why teachers’ strikes are always around the corner, and the causes of such strikes has been a topic of repeated discussion by education officials, Government functionaries and journalists. Indeed, explanations – or is it blame – for this trend, have been levelled from every conceivable direction at the teachers. And for good reason.