The Permanent Secretary in Kenyan Ministry of Education, James Kiyiapi has said that Rwandan Government made a request to employ 4000 graduate Kenyan teachers.
According to the PS, the request was made, during his recent visit to Rwanda.
Kiyiapi said as Rwanda switches to the English system commonly used in the East African community, there is a deficiency of English teachers, given the fact that Rwandese teachers mostly communicated in French as well as their native language.
Kiyiapi made the statement at AIC Kalyet Secondary School, as a confirmation to students that if they strive hard, there are opportunities after school.
Rwandan state Minister in charge of Primary and Secondary Education, Dr Mathias Harebamungu, confirms the recruitment will be done in January 2012 to coincide with the new academic year and the 12-year basic education programme.
Targeted countries are Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya, but more attention will be drawn to Kenya, and the concerned are Professional teachers capable of using English as an instructing language.
The 4000 teachers will be deployed to private and public schools across the country, and they are expected to teach students, fellow Rwandan teachers as well as Sector Executive Secretaries.
According to the Ministry records 43,000 teachers have been trained in the English language in two different sessions.
The training sessions were conducted by 1, 035 trainers, whereby 7000 were Rwandans, and the remaining Ugandans.
Ugandans were paid Rwf 25,000 per day, whilst Rwandans received Rwf 20,000.
Harebamungu said that the recruitment aims at putting Rwanda at the same level with the rest of EAC members, and thus boost their competency in the EAC market.
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