By Amoto Ndiewo
Although Junior Secondary School (JSS) will be domiciled in existing primary schools, they will stand on their own later and have their own Principals, Deputy Principals, teachers and Boards of Management.
This was revealed during a State House meeting chaired by President William Ruto where it was agreed that for a start, the JSS section will be domiciled inside primary schools but will later be independent.
“Junior Secondary School is a secondary school only that they will share a compound with primary school. It will have its own teachers and later even its own Principal when properly constituted,” said a source from the meeting.
It was also agreed that because the JSS curriculum is secondary, only teachers with qualifications to teach secondary schools will be posted.
The TSC plans to recruit 30,000 teachers by January 2023. In this group, so far the largest ever seen in the Kenyan educational history, will be deployed on permanent and pensionable as well as internship terms.
During the recruitment, the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) will prioritize unemployed teachers qualified to teach in secondary schools.
However, a number of teachers with Diplomas and Degrees will be employed on internship terms.
In May this year, TSC retooled a total of 60,000 secondary school teachers on JSS and is targeting to train116,024 teachers for the JSS curriculum by early next year.
The commission aims to train teachers on Languages, Pure Sciences, Applies Sciences, Mathematics, Humanities and Technical subjects of which the TSC targets to fish 3,000 tutors from TVET institutions.
