TSC Recruitiment Of 20000 Teachers For Grade 9. As part of its efforts to hire at least 20,000 more teachers by 2025, the government hopes to lessen the workload associated with teaching Grade 9 students.
Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu of the Ministry of Education announced that eighth-graders in elementary schools will be moving up to the ninth grade during a speech in Bungoma.
According to Machogu, every constituency in the nation has already been given tasks by the administration to facilitate this transition.
He underlined that 6,000 classrooms will be constructed before the year ends because of conditional funding of Sh3.4 billion.
This initiative was developed in close collaboration with the national government and the National Government-Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF).
Machogu added that the government has received Sh9 billion from the World Bank to build an additional 9,000 basic school classrooms.
By year’s end, 15,015 classrooms will be able to be constructed thanks to this additional funding. In terms of teacher recruitment, the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) plans to hire 20,000 teachers, with a focus on Grade 9.
TSC Recruitiment Of 20000 Teachers For Grade 9
Machogu also stated that the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) has finalized the Grade 9 curriculum materials and is almost done with the process of making these educational resources available to the general public.
Machogu refuted rumors circulating on social media that all Grade 9 classes would be transferred to secondary schools for the upcoming school year.
He also denied claims that he instructed the Kenya National Examinations Council (Knec) to create the Grade 8 Kenya Primary Placement Examination (KEPPE) in order to assign students to Grade 9.
He reiterated that nothing has changed with the current system and that it is false to say that a new exam will be launched by November of this year.
False allegations that the State was attempting to move Grade 9 instructors and students to secondary schools in order to adopt the competency-based curriculum were denied by the CS.
This shift would affect these instructors since junior secondary school teachers would be transferred from elementary schools to high schools to oversee classes 9, 10, 11, and 12, according to a fictitious circular.
According to TSC, there is an acute teacher shortage in junior secondary schools, which emphasizes the urgent need for planned hiring to provide adequate staffing and the effective implementation of educational activities.