What next? Anxiety among parents and teachers as schools reopen

Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut)Secretary General Wilson Sossion addresses the press at the union’s offices in Nairobi yesterday after meeting with a conciliation team appointed by the Labour CS in a bid to stop a looming teachers’ strike. [Edward Kiplimo,Standard]

A national teachers’ strike has compounded reigning confusion in the education sector over the rolling out of the new curriculum.

Yesterday, a meeting between the Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) and a conciliator appointed by Labour Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani to resolve the crisis failed to avert the strike.