TSC Recruitment Of 20000 Grade 9 Teachers. The government has made plans to hire at least 20,000 teachers in order to alleviate the burden of teaching Grade 9 students by 2025.
The cabinet secretary for the ministry of education, Ezekiel Machogu, announced at a speech in Bungoma that students in Grade 8 will be moving up to Grade 9 in primary schools.
According to Machogu, the administration has already assigned all of the nation’s constituencies.
He highlighted that 6,000 classrooms will be built before the end of the year thanks to a conditional grant of Sh3.4 billion.
He said that the National Government-Constituency Development Fund’s (NG-CDF) tight collaboration with the national government is the reason behind this decision.
The CS added that the government has received Sh9 billion from the World Bank so far to build an additional 9,000 classrooms in elementary schools.
With this additional funding, 15,015 classrooms will be constructed before the end of the year.
TSC Recruitment Of 20000 Grade 9 Teachers
Additionally, he said that the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) has already completed all development for Grade 9 students. This means that the process of releasing learning materials is now nearing completion.
All rumors circulating on social media that every Grade 9 class will be transferred to a secondary school the next year have been refuted by the CS.
Machogu refuted allegations that he gave the Kenya National Examinations Council (Knec) instructions to create the Grade 8 Kenya Primary Placement Examination (KEPPE), which is used to assign students to Grade 9.
According to Machogu, there has been no change in the current quo, and claims stating that the new exam will be implemented by November of this year are untrue.
The State was attempting to move Grade 9 instructors and students to secondary schools using the competency-based curriculum, according to the fictitious circular.
There is a teacher shortage right now. It further stated that by transferring junior secondary school instructors from primary schools to high schools to oversee classes 9, 10, 11, and 12. The adjustment was anticipated to have an impact on these teachers.
TSC acknowledged that there is a major teacher shortage in junior secondary schools.