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Teacher trainees must be allowed to focus on their strongest skills

Transport and Infrastructure Cabinet Secretary James Macharia presented a present of one of the best teacher trainees at Murang’a Teacher Training College. [Boniface Gikandi, Standard]

A recent education stakeholder’s forum agreed that only prospective teacher-trainees who will teach mathematics and/or mathematics-related courses should have the subject as a mandatory {pass} requirement. While this move has been welcome by many, it has elicited mixed reactions in equal measure. 

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