Ruto asks politicians to keep off ongoing teacher recruitment
Ruto asks politicians to keep off ongoing teacher recruitment in which 35,000 vacancies are set to be filled by January 2023
Ruto asks politicians to keep off ongoing teacher recruitment in which 35,000 vacancies are set to be filled by January 2023.
In order to allow the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to conduct its duties professionally, President William Ruto has instructed members of Parliament to refrain from meddling in the ongoing teacher recruitment.
Dr. Ruto concurred with MPs, nevertheless, that the application period should be extended and that TSC should be permitted to hire personnel for schools that would have junior secondary schools (JSS) when they begin next month.
Since TSC posted more than 35,000 job openings this month, some MPs have been accused of organizing unemployed teachers from their constituencies to lock out others seen as outsiders.
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“I want to ask politicians and other leaders to give us an opportunity to address the challenge that we have in our education sector. Let’s not introduce too many diversions. Allow the TSC and the ministry to work on the statistics to make sure that we have at least one teacher in every JSS class,” the President said at the Kimalel Annual Goat Auction in Baringo County.
“Education is very important. Many parents are anxious and they want their children to progress with learning. We’re doing reforms during a tricky period. We must agree to have a transition that’ll not bring problems to parents,” he added.
In order to keep students close to their parents, Ruto claimed that the government had planned for all Grade Six students to go to Junior Secondary within the primary schools they attended.
He said that this would lower the cost of education for the parents.
In every primary school, he promised, new classrooms and laboratories will be constructed.
“I can only allow the extension of the exercise but not political leaders interfering with the process. Our children are too important for leaders to politicize the exercise,” said the Head of State. He noted that the state was banking on the recruitment of 35,000 new teachers to support in the transition of Grade Six to junior secondary next year and address the shortage of teachers.
“The reason we are recruiting new teachers is that we want every school to have at least one teacher in junior secondary to support 100 percent transition,” Ruto explained.
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