Education Cabinet Secretary, Hon. Ezekiel Machogu, has announced that the government has allocated Kes 3.9 Billion to construct an additional 15,021 classrooms for Junior Secondary Schools (JSS) by 2025 to accommodate the first-grade 9 learners.
Speaking during the 63rd Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) Annual Delegates Conference in Nairobi, he said an additional Kes 9 billion will be provided by the World Bank for the construction of 9,000 classrooms and support from the National Government Constituency Development Fund (NGCDF).
He said the Government is taking steps to ensure that schools have the necessary infrastructure, where teachers and learners can effectively perform in a conducive environment.
Further, the CS acknowledged KNUT delegates for championing teachers’ welfare to promote and protect their interests across the country, noting that it has improved the performance of learners in schools.
“We remain committed as the Government to working with you to improve both the welfare of teachers and quality of Education for all in our schools,” he said.
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According to him, teachers have a significant stake in ensuring that CBC and other suggestions made by the Presidential Working Party on Education Reform are successfully implemented.
Aiming to plant 15 billion trees by 2032, the Cabinet Secretary also challenged school administrators to further the government's climate change strategy, with schools serving as key hubs for planting and propagating seedlings.
On his part, KNUT Secretary General Collins Oyuu commended the government for recruiting over 56,000 Teachers in less than one year.
He urged the Ministry of Education to start negotiations with the teacher employer TSC for intern teachers to be placed under permanent and pensionable terms.
“We are a professional body, and we know how to fight for the rights of our members without going to the streets to demonstrate,” said Oyuu.
Further, he said the capitation for schools must be revised upwards due to the increased cost of living.
