Kenya: Why Teachers Are Quitting TSC for UK and US Jobs

Teachers are reportedly quitting the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) for more lucrative positions in first-world countries.

One of the teachers, in an interview with NTV on Sunday, indicated that the salaries offered abroad were in six figures and more lucrative than their earnings locally.

“As a teacher in Kenya, the only thing you can afford is maybe to build a small 2-bedroom house and pay school fees for two children,” Felix Wanyaga noted.

Another teacher lamented that the changing…