Kenya’s president rules out increasing teachers’ pay

The BBC's Anne Soy looks at the ongoing dispute between Kenya's government and the country's teachers union over a 50% pay rise, which the government describes as unaffordable.

Public schools in Kenya have been shut by the government in response to a three-week teachers' strike.

A Kenyan appeals court rejects a pay rise of up to 60% which had been awarded to the country's teachers by an industrial court and sparked a five-week strike.

>A teachers union wants the government to suspend proposed terms and rules of conduct for teachers.

Arusha. President Jakaya Kikwete has reassured teachers countrywide that their predicament would come to an end before he hands over power to the fifth phase government in October.

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 The Teachers Service Commission is making efforts to meet the salary demands by teachers and avert a possible strike ahead of the national examinations season which begins next month.

TTU chairman Mr Nelusigwe Kajun asks government to settle the Sh3.1 billion it owes to Mbeya teachers