The Ministry of Education has announced challenges as it prepares to roll out the first grade 9 cohort.
This the education Principal Secretary Belio Kipsang’ said on Monday 6th January 2024.
The PS stated that there are fewer classrooms to accommodate learner prompting improvisation to ensure that learners are not disrupted.
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He also noted that some classrooms would be congested for 30 days as the Ministry works on constructing more.
The Ministry plans to use Ksh. 16 billion to complete the construction of classrooms. So far 13, 500 classes have been completed out of the required 16,000.
Kipsang said.
According to the education PS, the Ministry of Education has constructed 10,500 classes and NG-CDF has built 3,000.
9.9 million books have been distributed to different primary schools that domicile Grade 9 classes.
The teacher’s service Commission (TSC) posted 46,000 teachers who were on internship and another cohort of 20,000 teachers.
The Education PS however maintained that the number of teachers is still low and more should be onboarded to equate the number of learners.
Lately, there had been persistent fears that government isn’t fully prepared to receive grade 9 pupils this year due to insufficient facilities and teachers.
