Counties have the capacity to provide syllabus for nursery schools, council of governors vice chair Salim Mvurya has said.
Mvurya said counties have many professionals that can create the syllabus.
“County governments are not local authorities. We have many professionals,
those opposing plans to have counties employ nursery teachers should know that,” he added.
Mvurya made the remarks on Tuesday at Forest Lodge hotel in Ukunda during an education forum organised by the Aga Khan foundation.
“By employing the ECDE teachers, most marginalised counties like Kwale will see the benefits of devolution because we have a chance to solve our own problems,” he said.
Teachers unions and the Teachers Service Commission has opposed the move by counties to hire these teachers arguing that only the national government and TSC have been mandated to do so.
Mvurya said governors do not want a situation where some people in the Education headquarters at Jogoo House decide the number of teachers a county will want.
“I want to caution other county stakeholders not to be bystanders and assume devolution is governors' affair because when it fails everyone will fail,” he noted.