400,000 TSC Teachers To Serve In Comprehensive Schools In 2024

Beginning in January 2024, about 400,000 instructors who are employed by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) will work in comprehensive schools.

This comes after a plan to combine the junior school that just opened, the primary school, and the nursery.

According to fresh recommendations from the school reforms team, the single entity that includes all three levels will be referred to as the Comprehensive School and will be led by a principle.

The teachers in charge of the nursery, primary, and junior schools will support the principal and be referred to as deputy principals.

If implemented, the change will result in an increase in the number of students, teachers, and resources available for primary schools.

If all goes according to plan, the comprehensive schools will experience a sharp rise in the workforce.

According to TSC data, there are presently 44,496 nursery school instructors who live in primary schools;

There are 223,296 instructors working in primary schools. According to the Teachers Service Commission’s forecasts, there is currently a demand for 70,430 junior secondary schools, and by 2024, that demand is predicted to increase to 120,923.

As a result, 400,000 instructors may be employed in comprehensive schools by 2024.

With the continued hiring of 20,000 interns, the principal will have a sizable human resource.

This is more than the 347,000 teachers who are now employed as elementary and secondary school teachers combined.

According to data from the Education Ministry, there are currently at least 10 million students in these schools studying in classes from one through eight.

With the modifications, there will be two courses for pre-primary, six classes for primary schools, and three classes for junior high, bringing the total number of classes from the previous eight to 11.

This will consequently result in an increase in the number of students. The new head (principal), in addition to directing operations at all three levels of the school, will also manage classes one through eight, as was the case under 8-4-4. This implies that the principal will organise and supervise the infusion of millions of shillings into the institutions.

The Presidential Working Party on Education Reforms has suggested that nursery students get government capitation as well.

In addition, the panel has suggested that capitation per child be reviewed.

The team suggests adding the principal as a signatory to the pre-primary, primary, and junior school bank accounts.

The government will contribute through capitation, a minimum essential package, family contributions, and sponsors to the comprehensive schools.

In contrast to 8-4-4, government support for institutions will be distributed in two levels. The first level is capitation, which will be based on the number of students at a school and which the team suggests be increased.

400,000 TSC Teachers To Serve In Comprehensive Schools In 2024

The other idea is to offer a flat-rate bundle known as a minimum essential package that will change depending on the degree of education.

Each nursery school student will earn Sh1,170 from the government each year under the revised capitation.

Every primary school student will receive Sh2,238 per year, while junior secondary students will receive Sh15,043. Each senior high school student will receive about Sh22,527 annually.

For nursery schools, special needs students would receive an additional subsidy of Sh604 and for primary school students, further allocation of Sh3,624.

Students with special needs would receive an additional Sh10,000 in junior secondary and senior school.

The government will provide the majority of the funding for the comprehensive school in public institutions, but there will also be other support channels for distributing funds.

Analysis demonstrates the team’s desire to increase the funding sources and mechanisms for educational institutions.

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The minimal basic package follows. This will cover education-related costs regardless of the enrollment at the institutions, and it will be crucial in supporting universities with a small enrollment.

Pre-primary education will receive Sh70,200, primary education will receive Sh536,880, junior school will receive Sh1,632,120, senior school will receive Sh1,890,000, and special needs education will receive Sh2,060,940.

This means that as part of the minimum necessary package, a comprehensive school will receive a total of Sh2,239,200.

Regardless of the student population in schools, the minimum basic package will cover financial commitments in educational institutions.

This was deemed necessary since certain schools are unable to enrol the requisite number of students in order to function at their best.

The report states that this makes it challenging for them to earn enough money through capitation to pay for both constant and variable costs, such as BOM charges, mail, rental boxes, telephone, and internet access in administration and teaching.

Direct household contributions from wealthy families will be a crucial source of finance for the comprehensive school in order to ease the burden on the government’s resources; this method will be known as the equity-based funding model.

This is comparable to the method now used under the new university finance model, where students from low-income households receive educational help from the government in the form of scholarships, while students from more affluent families receive larger loans that must be repaid once they graduate from college.