Several staff to lose jobs due to secondary school crisis
Several staff to lose jobs due to secondary school crisis
After the government took a significant step to implement the new curriculum, a major crisis that will result in the firing of several secondary school teachers and non-teaching staff is about to arise in more than 10,000 secondary schools across the nation.
This is anticipated to happen as a result of the government’s funding reductions while it updates the national curriculum.
After the current form four students complete their final KCSE year, secondary schools won’t be able to admit form one students, creating a financial gap.
The idea to transfer the junior high school year to a secondary school has not been well received by the Ministry of Education (MoE).
This indicates that there will likely be fewer students enrolled in secondary schools starting the following year.
The stakeholders in education have consequently cautioned schools that employ more employees than students that they may have to consider layoffs of both teaching and non-teaching staff.
The move is expected to have an impact on a number of teachers who hold contracts with the Board of Management (BoM) as well as support personnel, according to Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) Coliins Oyuu, secretary general.
In this year, there are ove million students registered for the 2024 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exam who are expected to leave a significant gap.The above situation is likely to force several secondary schools institutions to undergo new reorganization as a way of addressing the likely crisis.
Therefore, in order to avoid regrets down the road, secondary school teachers employed by the Board of Management (Bom) should seize the opportunity presented by the much anticipated July 2024 recruitment.
In order to fill the current shortage of junior secondary teachers, the government, through cabinet secretary Ezekiel Machogu of the ministry of education, announced earlier this week that it would hire 20,000 additional teachers.
Simultaneously, the government disclosed its intentions to confirm teachers who will finish their second year of internship by December with effect from January 2025.