By AGEWA MAGUTMore by this AuthorEducation officials will from Monday start visiting schools to assess the progress of evaluation programmes for principals and teachers. They will monitor how performance contracting introduced last year in schools despite opposition from teachers unions is being implemented. The scheme is based on teachers’ professional knowledge and its application, their preparation and use of schemes of work, lesson notes and learners records. The evaluation is meant to make the assignment, training, promotion and deployment of teachers easier. It was also meant to stop absenteeism of teachers and absconding of duties, which have been blamed for poor performance.

Source: Daily Nation February 12, 2017 19:35 UTC