Good news for all alcoholic teachers in light of the most recent TSC update.
Good news for all alcoholic teachers: the Teachers Service Commission will pay for three months of free therapy for school administrators who continue to struggle with drinking or drug abuse.
This news was made on Wednesday in Mombasa during the 46th Annual National Conference of the Kenya Secondary School Heads Association by TSC Chairman Jamleck Muturi.
Muturi claims that the TSC has established a fully operational wellness center with a qualified medical team to help in the rehabilitation of principals and teachers who, as a result of stress at work, turn to drunkenness, drug addiction, or other substance usage.
“Principals operate in highly challenging environments. According to Muturi, we treat substance abuse, especially alcoholism, as a disease.
“We will reserve a three-month stay in a rehabilitation facility for such teachers, along with paid leave.”
How Principals Handle These Issues
Due to growing student enrollment without matching increases in funding, principals are currently facing challenging situations.
The chair of Kessha, Indimuli Kahi, said that new responsibilities such as recruiting Board of Management instructors for subcounty schools are not factored into the funding that schools get.
He made the point that subcounty schools are frequently day schools and are not allowed to charge tuition.
When capitation is delayed, Kahi said, “These schools suffer because how do you feed the students and how do you employ the BOM teachers?”
He says this swiftly raises the stress levels of the principals, and some of them turn into alcoholics or abuse drugs and other substances.
Muturi claims that the commission’s budget increased by Sh24 billion above the 2022–2023 budget to Sh323.7 billion for the 2023–2024 fiscal year.
Twenty thousand teacher interns will be hired using Sh4.6 billion of this money to help address the teacher shortage.
By the end of next week, we will advertise for these positions so that qualified candidates can apply, stated Muturi.
He claimed that employing intern instructors had previously been paid for by the government.
Happy News for All Teachers Who Drink
Approximately Sh1 billion has also been set aside for the advancement of educators, particularly principals who have been behind for some time.
It was said by the TSC chair, “We want driven principals.”
The CBC will invest an additional Sh1.3 billion to increase its teacher capacity.
Furthermore, 163,938 instructors nationwide have received remote learning training from the commission.
This suggests that a teacher at Machakos High School might be able to lecture students at Kanga High School remotely using technology.
“This is meant to help deal with the teacher shortage situation that we currently have in the country,” stated Muturi.
This is in addition to the government’s ongoing efforts to boost the number of teachers employed.
During the fiscal year 2022–2023, the government hired 30,550 instructors for junior secondary schools.
There were 9,000 regular teachers with pension rights, compared to 21,550 intern instructors.
As a result, a school with one stream got one instructor, and a school with three streams got three.
Muturi pushed principals to use their limited resources wisely and creatively in order to be effective and efficient.
He urged them to come up with innovative ways to make money to augment the government funding, which is insufficient.
Muturi continued, “A school can raise chickens as a project and sell them or the eggs they lay.”
Good news for all alcoholic teachers in light of the most recent TSC update.
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