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    "id": 1491844,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1491844/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ogamba",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Education",
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    "content": "and December 2024 to prepare them for grade 9. During the same period, the 19,960 junior school headteachers will be retooled. The Commission, in collaboration with the Centre for Mathematics, Science and Technology has provided specialized tailor-made training for 7,700 teachers in integrated science and mathematics. As I have indicated, the 46,000 intern teachers will be confirmed on a permanent and pensionable basis for January 2025. Starting this month, 20,000 more teachers will be employed. The answer to the last part of that question on Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET), the Ministry together with the TSC have taken several steps to address the concerns that have been raised by KUPPET and other stakeholders regarding staffing of teacher motivation and overall capacity of primary schools to accommodate junior school learners. On staffing, for example, the Government is finalizing the conversion of 46,000 intern teachers to permanent and pensionable. A process of recruiting 20,000 more teachers has commenced and the TSC is working to address the matter of the promotion of teachers. The commission has been allocated 1 billion shillings for promotion of teachers in the 2024/2025 financial year. The TSC through a multi-agency approach has trained 60,642 junior school teachers for grades 7 and 8. I have given information that retooling of 19,960 and 7,700 is already being done. The matter of the domicile of junior school was considered by the Presidential Working Party on Education Reform. The working party engaged various stakeholders and sought their submissions. Notably, 93 per cent of the submissions received by the working party recommended that junior school be hosted in existing primary schools. Only 5 per cent of the submissions recommended the hosting of junior school in existing secondary schools, while 2 per cent suggested new schools for junior school. The working party analysed the merits of hosting junior school in existing primary schools as opposed to secondary schools. It was noted that junior school learners would experience psychosocial challenges in settling down and integrating with secondary school learners who are relatively much older. Cost considerations were also a justification. Since Standard 7 and 8 classrooms would be unoccupied, it was considered more cost effective than constructing new classrooms in secondary schools."
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