Ministry of Education and Sports is set to recruit 2,542 staff members for community schools that have since been taken over by the government.
Prof Samuel Luboga, Education Service Commission Chairperson, says 82 schools across the country will benefit from the recruitment as part of government’s efforts to ensure each sub-county has public school.
According to Prof Luboga, each school will get 31 staff members including a head teacher and deputy, 23 classroom teachers and 6 support staff including bursar, secretary, an enrolled nurse, library assistant and two laboratory assistants. Prof. Luboga Speaking;….
According to the ministry, each school have been allocated two slots for teachers in the core subjects of Mathematics, English, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Swahili, History/Political Education,entrepreneurship/Economics, Business Studies, Physical Education, Geography and Religious Studies.
The remaining subjects such as Swahili, business studies, entrepreneurship, physical education and religious education will receive one teacher per subject.
Each school will receive four teachers for the elective subjects that include Information, Communication and Technology (ICT), Agriculture, Art and Design and vernacular.
According to Prof. Luboga, government has completed constructing 18 seed secondary schools, which are yet to be operationalized.
Muhammad Kaaya, the commissioner of education services, says that priority will be given to teachers who are currently working on local contracts with the schools. END
