Govt asserts that 26,000 JSS intern teachers will have permanent jobs.
The government has said that by the start of the next fiscal year in June 2024, the contracts of 26,000 JSS intern teachers will be changed to regular ones that include pensions.
The head of the Parliamentary Education Committee, the Honorable Julius Meli, said that the JSS intern teachers who are currently working on contract will have to be taken on by TSC because Parliament has already given them money.
While talking about the current state of the education sector, Hon. Meli asked the teachers at Junior Secondary Schools to stop their weekly protests and instead go back to class and interact with students while their concerns were being handled.
It was made clear by Meli that the Nation Assembly had given TSC money to hire 26,000 JSS interns on a regular and pensionable basis.
He told them to be more patient because the teacher interns who were still there would be hired in the coming years.
The lawmaker said that the education committee agreed with the National Treasury’s account of why it might not be possible to take on all of the JSS interns right now because of money issues.
Hon. Meli said this in his speech at ACK DL, St. Marks Preparatory School, where he was at an interfaith service and singing competition in Nandi East.
There was a ceremony led by Bishop Emeritus Jackson Kosgei, who is also a qualified senator.
Meli also said that after the 26,000 people who were hired are hired, another 20,000 JSS interns will be hired on a one-year deal.
These changes will help the teachers make up for the huge lack of teachers in Kenyan schools right now.
For the next fiscal year, he also said that the government has planned to hire 2,000 TVET teachers through the Public Service Commission.
As of two weeks ago, junior secondary school intern teachers were out in the streets saying they would not go back to work until the government promised them stable jobs.
Govt asserts that 26,000 JSS intern teachers will have permanent jobs.
