58,000 Teachers To Be Employed Yearly for Sh25 Billion – Ruto
This year, an additional 30,000 teachers for primary education and 3,000 tutors for TVET schools will be engaged to facilitate a smooth transition into the first level of Junior Secondary School.
“We intend to use our education system to develop world-class human capital.
"This is why, in January, we set out to hire more teachers to ensure that our primary to junior secondary transition is flawless,” President Ruto said.
To solve the sector’s present shortage of 116,000, Ruto stated that the government would hire a portion of the anticipated 58,000 teachers yearly for Sh25 billion over the next two years.
“We commit to ensuring government-initiated in-service training, including Teacher Continuous Professional Development,” he said.
Ruto also stated that the government aims to spend Sh15 billion to equip 70 TVET colleges to aid in training students and preparing them for the labor market.
In its Education Charter, the Kenya Kwanza Alliance also committed to completing the development of Vocational Training Centres in every ward and ensuring that each constituency has a Technical Training and Vocational Educational Training Institution (TVET).
“Within the first two years, we will establish and fully equip a Tvet institution in each of the remaining 52 constituencies,” the charter states.
“We will also hire tutors to look after our TVET institutions, because TVET has the best human capital that is tailored towards Science, Technical, Engineering, and Mathematics (Stem) subjects and areas that will lead us to engineering, because that is the future we seek.”
Teachers Service Commission will soon hire new primary school teachers.
The education review team directed recruiting of an additional 30,000 junior secondary school teachers.
The study states that the Ministry of Education, KICD, and TSC would cooperate on expediting the retraining of teachers to guarantee that the country has a sufficient number of instructors who comply with CBC.
Munavu stated that seventh-grade teachers should be given precedence during the hiring process.
According to the report, the government will recruit an additional 30,000 teachers by January 2023 to ease the transition and alleviate the teacher shortage.
The directive elicited responses from education stakeholders throughout the nation.
Kuppet stated that the education review team has reverted to the previous educational structure.
Akello Misori, the union’sunion’s general secretary, stated that permitting primary schools to house junior secondary students is equivalent to reverting to the previous curriculum.
“The working party has reinstated Kenya’sKenya’s 8-4-4 formation,” Misori stated.
According to him, primary schools cannot host junior high schools.
According to the secretary general, the government will incur expenses for the additional amenities.
According to the Kenya National Union of Teachers, the directive was based on the research submitted to the task committee.
Collins Oyuu, the general secretary of Knut, stated that the union’sunion’s presentation to the review committee was adequate.
Oyuu said, “Our research findings were based on teacher preparation, summative assessment, and JSS residency.”
In its proposals, Knut made a compelling argument for placing Junior High School students in primary schools, arguing that secondary schools are overcrowded and unsuitable for younger students.
58,000 Teachers To Be Employed Yearly for Sh25 Billion – Ruto