World Bank Proposes Merit-based Teacher Salaries
allAfrica reports that the World Bank is proposing Kenyan teacher salaries should based upon merit and not on "job group." Around 90% of all school finances go to teacher salaries and benefits. Since Kenya has instated free primary education the World Bank has increased investment in the education sector. Other issues they're working out is even distribution of classroom size across the country and community involvement in teacher hiring, curriculum, and school finance.
allAfrica seems to be consistently spotty with details, even reporting two different numbers (90% and 95%) regarding the proportion of teacher salaries in the education budget.
Update: From the home page of the Nation (I can't access the rest of the web site now), teachers have rejected the salary proposals from the World Bank. Big surprise.
allAfrica seems to be consistently spotty with details, even reporting two different numbers (90% and 95%) regarding the proportion of teacher salaries in the education budget.
Update: From the home page of the Nation (I can't access the rest of the web site now), teachers have rejected the salary proposals from the World Bank. Big surprise.
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9:30 AM
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From allAfrica: The Kenya National Union of Teachers are calling the World Bank proposal a "provocation." Their claim is that they worked so hard to get the 1997 pay raises and schedules implemented that it shouldn't go up for review.
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paul, at 4:51 PM, September 28, 2004
Good point. A lot of studies still need to be done regarding teacher assessment. When I was teaching in an urban school in the US, a lot of work went into developing fair assessment strategies and rubrics for a merit-based pay schedule. I wonder what strategies they've thought up to implement the system.
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paul, at 6:15 PM, September 30, 2004
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