A primary school with 10 streams and a maximum of 4,000 pupils will have one head teacher, two deputies and eight senior teachers. A secondary school with 12 streams and a maximum of 2,100 students will have one principal, two deputies and nine senior teachers. A teacher in primary school will be required to have a maximum of 35 lessons while one in secondary school will be required to handle 27 lessons per week. SUFFERINGKenya National Union of Private Schools Teachers (KNUPST) Secretary-General Dan Khasiani said teachers in most private schools are suffering since the institutions stopped remitting salaries. Already private schools have appealed to the government to provide them with grants in order to sustain the wage bill of their teaching and non-teaching staff.

Source: Daily Nation June 17, 2020 15:19 UTC