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Teacher shortage persists even as TSC hires 20,000 interns

Junior Secondary School teachers

Junior Secondary School teachers during a past protest in Kakamega town to demand better terms of employment for interns.

Photo credit: File | Nation Media Group

By  Mercy Simiyu

Correspondent

What you need to know:

  • Last year, the government converted 39,550 teachers serving in junior school on contract to permanent employment.
  • The government has allocated Sh4.8 billion to recruit 20,000 additional teacher interns for junior schools from this month.



Public primary schools that host junior school face staffing challenges despite government plans to recruit 20,000 more teachers on contract. 

This follows the transition of more than one million learners to Grade 9 under the competency-based curriculum (CBC). 

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