TSC announces plan to employ 35,000 more teachers by September
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TSC seeking to employ 35,000 more teachers by September to bridge the existing shortage
TSC seeking to employ 35,000 more teachers by September to bridge the existing shortage.
The government promises that students in Grade Seven will continue to learn as the problem is resolved while also aiming to hire 35,000 extra teachers by September.
The 110,000 teacher gap will be progressively filled, according to President William Ruto, who has already increased the number of teachers hired annually.
He stated that the government is working to find more primary teachers with diplomas and promote them to junior secondary schools (JSS).
“We are identifying teachers with diplomas so that we can post them to JSS because we have more in the primary section. We want to promote those in the primary to cover the gap and when we move to this new budget, maybe towards September, we can then be able to hire,” said Ruto, in a televised interview.
He assured the Grade 7 learners will continue learning because the Government has made temporary interventions.
“For JSS learners, the Government has made an intervention because part of the problem was that some primary schools did not have enough students to qualify to host the junior school. We are trying to see how we can put together some of the institutions,” explained Ruto, adding that he made a decision to hire 35,000 teachers at once, the largest ever because there was an urgent need.
“We used to hire 5,000 every year and I have scaled it up to 35,000 and another 35,000 next year but I have to operate within a budget. I need the resources. But when I try to raise the money, you guys make noise that I am raising taxes but you still want children to get their education, we have to balance these things.”
The president said that when he came into office, he found a big crisis that led him to appoint the presidential working party to look at reforming the education sector.
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He insisted that education is the most important instrument of shaping the country’s human capital and the future, adding that education sharpens them, right from primary school.
“I appointed the working group to work on education and I made certain decisions. I reversed that these kids go to secondary schools because there was a need for an extra classroom when there was already an extra classroom in the primary. It would have been a bigger crisis if we would have gone down that route,” he explained.
The government plan comes even as the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) proposes the recruitment of 20,000 intern teachers for the fiscal year 2023–2024.
In submissions to National Assembly’s Committee on Education and Research on Monday, CEO Nancy Macharia said recruitment will ensure objectives outlined in the Bottom-up Economic Transformation Agenda are achieved.
“These teachers are expected to reduce the shortage in our public schools but more importantly, ensure that learners receive quality education,” she said.
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