Fresh Details Emerge On Recruitment Of 46000 JSS Teachers
Fresh Details Emerge On Recruitment Of 46000 JSS Teachers
Fresh Details Emerge On Recruitment Of 46000 JSS Teachers
If the Finance Bill is rejected, 46 000 intern Junior Secondary School (JSS) teachers who qualify for Permanent and Pensionable (PnP) periods may lose their positions.
President William Ruto, who declined to sign the Finance Bill, gave the National Treasury instructions on Friday, June 28, 2024, to submit additional estimates that would cut spending by the amount projected to be received.
With the aim of removing every clause, the Head of State sent the Bill back to the National Assembly. The end result is a Ksh346 billion cut in spending that impacts the three arms of government’s departments, agencies, and ministries.
In order to align the budget with the new Fiscal Framework, Ruto subsequently gave the National Treasury instructions to inform all Principal Secretaries in various ministries to reduce the Financial Year 2024/25 budget across all operations.
The 46,000 JSS intern instructors who have been eagerly awaiting their confirmation since 2023 will be impacted by the decrease.
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) will lose KSh18.5 million as a result of the National Treasury’s proposed budget reduction.
The Commission has been directed by the Treasury to wait until PnP before employing JSS intern teachers and verifying interns. Other state agencies under the Education docket are impacted by a KSh8.3 billion budget cut to the state department of Higher Education and Research.
Many students may face financial difficulty as a result of the Higher Education Loans Board’s (HELB) 3.2 billion funding cut.
KSh1.8 billion has been taken out of the school feeding program and KSh1.6 billion has been taken out of the budget for school infrastructure.
These actions will cost the state department of Basic Education KSh3.4 billion.
A lesser first budget allocation of KSh800 million would also go to the state department of Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions. TVET and TTI initiatives would be impacted by the reduction in funding.
