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Changes that teachers' union would like to see in our schools

A teacher at Mully Children Family at school on October 05, 2022. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

From the global perspective, countries are moving from the 9 to 12 years of primary education, majority of them have moved to 6-8 years of primary education and intermediate/lower secondary, hence the structure 2-6-3-3-3 is well in line the Global reforms on education structure.

As of 2020 statistical data, we have 32,437 primary educational institutions, including private and public schools in Kenya and 10,413 secondary educational institutions. Out of these 8000 are public secondary schools. The 23,286 public primary and 9,058 private primary schools mostly channel their students to public secondary schools.

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