The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) must stop “splashing employment letters in funerals as if teachers were groundnuts to be sold in such ceremonies,” KNUT Secretary for Western region Patrick Chungani has warned.
He said that TSC is to blame for poor education and the teachers’ low morale in the education sector. The KNUT boss reiterated that selective way of employing teachers in smaller numbers will result in many teachers who deserve the chances of getting employed being denied the opportunities.
“We cannot have quality education and good performance without good staffing and enough teachers,” he observed.
The KNUT boss wondered why teachers who graduated way back in 2008 to 2010 had not been employed. He questioned the reason why the TSC had the habit of employing mothers at 45 years of age. Then they retire upon reaching 60 with very little to take home as pension.
At the same time, Kakamega County KUPPET Chairman Johnston Wabuti cried that out of 4, 300 teachers in the county who were eligible for promotions, only 800 of them were promoted. This left 3,500 teachers with pending promotions. This meant most institutions in the county were running without deputies because their promotions were also pending.
READ ALSO:
700 fruit trees planted in Kisii schools to commemorate World Environment Day
They were speaking on Friday, May 31 at St Agnes Shibuye Girls during the Education Day in Shinyalu Constituency. The area MP Fred Ikana organised the event that witnessed St Peter’s Seminary, the Sacred Heart Mukumu Girls High and Mukumu Girls Primary School take the lion’s share of trophies for their excellent performance in the academic fields. The chief guest was Ndindi Nyoro.
The MP together with the chief guest had earlier launched a storey building construction at St Albert Shanjero Secondary School.
The Principal of St Agness Shibuye Grls Electine Kisiang’ani lamented insufficient teachers against a big number of students in her school was not adding value to education.
“The school enrollment is over 1300 students. A class has about 70 students instead of 40. We needed 63 teachers but we have only 27 teachers. This means the BoM uses a bigger part of our budget to pay 40 more teachers to help solve the problem,” she said.
The guest of honour Nyoro awarded the Principal of Shanderema Secondary School Simon Watenge a trophy for being the most outstanding principal.
By Albert Muteshi
You can also follow our social media pages on Twitter: Education News KE and Facebook: Education News Newspaper for timely updates.
>>> Click here to stay up-to-date with trending regional stories
