TSC Recruitment Of 20000 Grade 9 Teachers
TSC Recruitment Of 20000 Grade 9 Teachers
The government has made plans to hire at least 20,000 teachers in order to alleviate the burden of teaching Grade 9 students by 2025.
During a speech in Bungoma, Ezekiel Machogu, the cabinet secretary for the ministry of education, declared that eighth-graders would be advancing to ninth grade in elementary schools.
He emphasized that a conditional grant of Sh3.4 billion will enable the construction of 6,000 classrooms by the end of the year.
He explained that this decision was made because of the close working relationship between the national government and the National Government-Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF).
The CS went on to say that the government has already secured Sh9 billion from the World Bank to construct an extra 9,000 elementary school classrooms.
With this additional funding, 15,015 classrooms will be constructed before the end of the year.
Furthermore, he stated that all curriculum preparation for Grade 9 students has already been finished by the Kenya Institute of Curriculum preparation (KICD). This indicates that the process of making educational resources available is almost finished.
The CS has denied all of the claims that have been going around on social media that every Grade 9 class will be moving to a secondary school the next year.
Claims that Machogu instructed the Kenya National Examinations Council (Knec) to develop the Grade 8 Kenya Primary Placement Examination (KEPPE), which places pupils in Grade 9, were denied.
Machogu asserts that the status quo has not changed and refutes reports that the new exam will be in place by November of this year.
Right present, there is a teacher shortage. It said that junior secondary school teachers would be moved from elementary schools to high schools to supervise classes 9, 10, 11, and 12. It was expected that these teachers would be impacted by the change.
The TSC admitted that junior secondary schools are severely short-staffed with teachers.
