Dates For Recruitment Of 20000 Grade 9 Teachers. To reduce the workload of educating Grade 9 children by 2025, the Kenyan government has announced the hiring of at least 20,000 more teachers.
During a speech in Bungoma, Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu of the Ministry of Education announced that eighth-graders will advance to ninth grade in basic schools.
To ease the transition, duties have been allocated to each constituency around the country. Machogu stated that 6,000 classrooms will be built by the end of the year, with a conditional KSh 3.4 billion grant from the National Government-Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF) and the national government.
Furthermore, the World Bank has allocated KSh 9 billion for the construction of an additional 9,000 classrooms in basic schools. This financing will allow for the completion of 15,015 classrooms by the end of the year.
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) intends to hire 20,000 teachers, primarily for Grade 9, to meet the teaching needs.
Machogu further stated that the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) has completed the curriculum materials for Grade 9, and the public release of these educational resources is nearing completion.
In response to reports on social media, Machogu disputed that all Grade 9 classes would be shifted to secondary schools in the coming academic year.
Dates For Recruitment Of 20000 Grade 9 Teachers
He also denied that he authorized the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) to create the Grade 8 Kenya Primary Placement Examination (KEPPE) to assign students to Grade 9.
He underlined that no changes have been made to the current system, and there are no plans to implement a new exam by November of this year.
Machogu refuted erroneous reports that the State intended to move Grade 9 instructors and pupils to secondary schools to implement the competency-based curriculum.
According to a fake circular, these teachers will allegedly be transferred from elementary to high schools to manage grades 9-12. The TSC has recognized a chronic teacher shortage in junior secondary schools, underlining the critical need for coordinated recruiting to provide enough staffing and successful implementation of educational objectives.
The recruitment process is slated to begin in the first week of July. Funds for teacher recruitment have already been made aside in the recently read budget.