The State must recognise the significance of education and refrain from lumping this important sector with other fields when it comes to allocation in the budget.
The Presidential Working Party on Education Reforms findings indicate that public primary schools have 223,296 teachers, but need up to 267,792 teachers.
A protest, also called a demonstration is a public expression to the authorities of objection, disapproval or dissent towards an idea or action, typically a political one.
According to the existing terms and conditions of service, officers in the public service expect terminal benefits in accordance with their letters of appointment as an incentive for the services.
All learners graduating from primary schools have a right to join junior schools and thereafter pursue their career path lines in senior school.
Employment opportunities are created by expanding consumption of goods and services through good leadership and proper and prudent management of public resources.
Teachers who are non-locals are discriminated against on food prices in the market; they are harassed by some learners and are not able to take any disciplinary measures.
The framework through which school funds are allocated, distributed, governed and monitored from time immemorial has been handled in a haphazard manner.
To fund the grand health scheme, the government plans to increase deductions from the current range of between Sh150 and Sh1,700 to a flat rate calculated at 2.75 per cent of gross monthly earnings.
Heads of institutions are already warning that the gaps created by the lack of consistency in disbursements could throw preparations for the national examinations into disarray.
The cause of examination irregularities, however, may not only be the collection and delivery time of examination papers to and from the containers.
Kenya should embrace best practices adopted the world over. All stakeholders in the sector must be encouraged to work together for success.
Senior secondary school learners have been allocated Sh19,628 per student. This amount should be raised to Sh35,000. Before the split into Senior and Junior Secondary, learners got Sh22,244.
Sitting a national examination is never an event; it is a process. We call upon parents, guardians and all well-wishers to prepare well to take their children to the next level in 2024.
It will be a big shame to the profession if it turns out to be true that senior members of our teaching fraternity have been involved in aiding cheating in the ongoing KCSE examinations.
During the time in question, the Teachers’ Service Commission (TSC) decided to promote a group of teachers to headship positions without interviews.
KNUT has been at the forefront of demanding that the government employs more teachers to reduce teachers’ workload and enhance quality teaching.
In the CBC dispensation, subject areas are not aligned to teaching subjects currently being trained at universities. Junior Secondary comprises of Grade 7, 8, 9.
It is sad listening to some of the reasons for teachers exiting the profession. The employer should do something to redeem the confidence of these teachers.
The medical cover introduced by the government through the presidential decree in 2018 for more than 3.4 million students in secondary schools will come to an end on December 31, 2023.
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