Several Staff To Lose Jobs In Secondary Schools. Following the government’s major step to implement the new curriculum , a serious crisis looms more than 10,000 secondary schools in the country that will see firing of several secondary school teaching and non teaching staff.
This is expected to result from the funding cuts as the government implements changes to the national curriculum.
The current form four students will have their final KCSE year and thereafter secondary schools will not get form one admissions resulting to a financial gap.
At the same time, the Ministry of Education (MoE) has been hard to welcome the proposal to move the final year of junior school to secondary schools.
This means that from next year, there is an anticipated decline in secondary school population.
Several Staff To Lose Jobs In Secondary Schools
The education stakeholders have therefore warned schools with excess staff compared to their student population in chances of considering both teaching and non teaching staff layoffs.
According to the secretary general, Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) Coliins Oyuu, several teachers under Board of Management (BoM) contracts and support staff are likely to be affected by this move .
In this year, there are ove million students registered for the 2024 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exam who are expected to leave a significant gap.
The above situation is likely to force several secondary schools institutions to undergo new reorganization as a way of addressing the likely crisis
As a result, teachers who are working under board of management (Bom) in secondary schools should take advantage of the announced and awaited July 2024 recruitment to avoid later regrets.
The government, through the ministry of Education cabinet secretary Ezekiel Machogu earlier this week announced plans to recruit 20,000 more teachers to address the current teaching staff gaps under junior secondary.
At the same time, the government revealed plans to have the teachers who are completing their second year of internship by December, have their confirmation starting January 2025.