MP: Starting in June, 26,000 JSS intern teachers will receive permanent jobs.
In the upcoming fiscal year, beginning in June 2024, the government intends to grant permanent and pensionable status to 26,000 JSS intern teachers.
The chairman of the Parliamentary Education Committee, Julius Meli, revealed that TSC will take on the role of intern JSS teachers who are now employed under contract, since funding has been provided by the legislature.
While their issues were being addressed, Meli pleaded with the junior secondary school teachers to end their weekly demonstration and return to the classroom to teach.
“We need them to be patient because Parliament has given TSC funding to hire 26,000 JSS interns permanently; the remaining interns will be taken on in the coming years,” Meli stated.
The lawmaker disclosed that his committee had accepted the National Treasury’s justification that they were unable to hire all of the JSS interns because of budgetary limitations.
Meli gave a speech at ACK DL St Marks Preparatory School during an interdenominational service and choral competition in Nandi East, which was overseen by the nominated senator Bishop Emeritus Jackson Kosgei.
After the 26,000 are employed, Meli said, 20,000 more JSS intern tutors would be hired on a one-year contract to help fill the massive teacher shortage that exists in Kenyan schools at the moment.
“The government through the Public Service Commission will also hire 2,000 TVET trainers in the coming financial year,” Meli stated.
The MP stated, “The government is committed to ensuring that pressure on parents is eased through contracting as they wait to be absorbed. The country currently has a shortage of 116,000 teachers.”
According to the MP, the Kenya Kwanza administration was using Sh 1.1 trillion of its revenue to pay off debt from the previous government.
MP: Starting in June, 26,000 JSS intern teachers will receive permanent jobs.
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