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Trainee teachers, ministry in stand off over Garissa

Having unsuccessfully tried to coerce more than 1,800 teachers who had fled the North-Eastern frontier counties over insecurity, the Ministry of Education is involved in a fresh row with the Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) over another attempt to force trainee teachers to go back to Garissa Teachers Training College.

This time round, it is about the fate of more than 600 students of Garissa Teachers Training College who have petitioned the ministry to transfer them to safer regions and the Kenya National Examinations Council (Knec) to relocate the institution's examinations centre to Nairobi.

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