Written by The Junior Secondary School interns received some good news after it was confirmed that they will be employed in Permanent and Pensionable terms when the new financial year will kick start in July 2024.
This is after the decision by the Teachers Service Commission to employ them on Permanent and Pensionable terms as from January 2025 was reversed by the National Assembly’s Committee on Education.
The Parliament allocated 8.3 billion shillings for the 26,000 JSS intern teachers to be hired on permanent and pensionable basis.
The Chairman of the National Assembly’s Committee on Education honorable Julius Melly give his submission to the Budget and Appropriations Committee and told the Committee that the Teachers Service Commission will employ the teachers in July 2024 and not in January 2025.
In his submission, he stated that beginning the next financial year, the Teachers Service Commission should streamline the recruitment process so as to ensure that the resources assigned to that function are fully utilized.
The Committee also wants the Teachers Service Commission to undertake and evaluate the staff norm requirements for all the institutions of basic learning so as to assess the number of teachers who are required so as to make it easy for resource allocation in the future.
The 8.3 Billion shillings will be used to convert the current JSS intern teachers contracts into permanent and pensionable terms and the Teachers Service Commission will also be given another further 4.68 billion shillings which will be used to recruit another batch of 20,000 intern teachers in the next financial year.
This is indeed some good news to the JSS intern teachers who have been on the streets requesting the Teachers Service Commission to employ them on permanent and pensionable terms. They were even served with show-cause letters for boycotting classes but they said that they will not tire until their grievances are heard and granted their request.