Government promises to add 20,000 more teachers by July.
The government intends to hire 20,000 more teachers, according to Ezekiel Machogu, cabinet secretary for education, in order to increase the teacher-to-student ratio and address the serious teacher shortage the country is now facing.
Speaking on Wednesday at the Kolanya Girl’s National School in Bungoma County, Machogu said that the administration has already hired more than 50,000 teachers since taking office in September 2022.
“Since taking office, this government has hired a record 56,750 teachers. As a ministry, we have received additional money to employ 20,000 teachers this fiscal year,” said the minister of education.
The CS reiterated his commitment to improving the country’s educational system.
His comments were in response to a protest by Mary Emase, a member of parliament for Teso South, who pleaded with the administration to give teachers more recognition in order to provide incentives to raise student achievement generally.
The school’s principal had previously declared that the teacher shortage was negatively impacting the school, as there were only 40 government-employed teachers as opposed to the Ministry of Education’s target of 65 teachers.
Thousands of teachers are unemployed despite the fact that the Teachers Service Commission (TSC), the teachers’ employer, is the employer.
In response to calls for improving the local teacher-student ratio, the TSC announced in February that it was in talks to locate jobs for tutors abroad with the Ministry of Labor and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, among other partners.
Then, TSC Director of Legal Calvin Anyuor said it would be prudent to secure opportunities for Kenya’s excess teacher supply elsewhere.
Since there are too many teachers in the country, we have started working with significant stakeholders to export the teaching resource. We are collaborating with the Ministry of Labor, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and other relevant government agencies to send our teachers to teach English in Germany,” Anyuor said.
In addition to the more than 400,000 teachers that TSC currently employs, the commission plans to hire 46,000 teacher interns on a permanent, pensionable basis by the next year.
The interns’ two-year term is rapidly coming to an end.
Government promises to add 20,000 more teachers by July.
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