The teacher is in another school — and on the screen: Kenya beams lessons to classrooms that need them

A rural school without a physics teacher doesn't have a timetable problem; it has an opportunity problem. Kenya's Teachers Service Commission has piloted a fix under a World Bank–Mastercard Foundation partnership: two strong schools — Alliance Girls and Machakos School — livestream their science, mathematics and English lessons into ten satellite schools that lack subject teachers. Twelve schools took part in the pilot, testing what makes beamed-in teaching actually work: the connection, the classroom facilitator, and materials designed for two rooms at once. The idea is deliberately modest — share the teachers Kenya already has, more fairly — and it sits inside a national plan for hybrid learning and teacher development.

SDG 4 · Quality education — Mechanism: institutional program