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"content": "REVIEW OF REMUNERATION FOR PRIMARY SCHOOL HEAD TEACHERS UNDER THE COMPETENCY BASED CURRICULUM"
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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. They are very watchful these days. You know I represent a county where over 60 per cent are the youth and literacy levels are 91 per cent. Therefore, they follow us real-time, but thanks for accommodating me. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, can you allow me to just throw in a little question on a very important issue that you had raised before I asked this question? Hon. Cabinet Secretary, please help us. We are under a lot of pressure as political leaders from our youth, for good reason. Just a few days ago, a Cabinet Secretary is reported to have conned the youth for employment abroad. Now, the trouble we are under at the moment is that we hear leaders are selling forms for employment to these young people to be employed as teachers. If you have that kind of information, please, make a public statement, so that you protect all these Senators who I know none of them has sold any letter because they do not even have them. My substantive question is as follows - when will the Government review the remuneration of primary school teachers to reflect their now-expanded responsibilities The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "under the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) and or Competency-Based Education, which now include overseeing pre-primary, primary, and junior secondary schools? Secondly, could the Cabinet Secretary also state whether workload assessment and job evaluation have been done to inform such a review? If so, could you please provide details of the same?"
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"content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we will, as a Ministry, endeavour to work with you to ensure that such issues as selling employment forms, which is a criminal activity, is dealt with and sorted out. We need to be doing things right and we need to just take the responsibility for doing right things."
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"content": "That is why we are saying if we get the right data from TSC, when the employment is being done, everybody would know that this is the number that is available and the information is there on a portal at the touch of a button. There will be no dark spaces in various places where then you do not get the information that is required. Even the public would know exactly what is going on. The TSC signed the 2021-2025 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) with the teachers' unions in the public sector. The CBA stipulates the terms of service of the teachers in the public sector, including the remuneration of their teachers in our primary schools. The 2021-2025 CBA will terminate on 30th of June, 2025. To this end, the TSC has commenced negotiations for the 2025-2029 CBA in line with the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) guidelines. Accordingly, in line with Article 230(4) (b) of the Kenya Constitution, the TSC has submitted proposals to SRC, together with the request to conduct job evaluation in the public teaching sector, noting the new learning areas under CBC in order for it to inform the kind of remuneration that the teachers should get with this added responsibility. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, to the second part of the question, the Commission and SRC are planning to conduct a comprehensive job evaluation in the Financial Year 2025/2026 for the entire teaching service to ascertain the work of every job in the teaching service. The need for job evaluation has been informed by the change in the job content, the input and output factors, as well as the new jobs introduced by the competency-based education. The same will be done in a collaborative manner and all the stakeholders will be involved as required by law. I submit, Mr. Speaker."
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"content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, that is a straightforward answer and I thank the Cabinet Secretary. Please, in your review, do consider bringing into consideration the new things introduced, including deductions for housing, increased deductions for Social Health Authority (SHA). It is not nice in communities like mine, where we have got a huge population of teachers, to see young people earning a salary of Kshs3,000 shillings after all deductions are done. We are treating our workers very badly, yet they take care of our children. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": " Let us get supplementary questions from Sen. Joe Nyutu and then Sen. Gloria Orwoba."
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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. My question is related to the one by the Senator for Kakamega. Since now, under junior secondary or junior school, as it is referred the syllabus is basically high school. I am aware the teachers in junior secondary are as qualified as their colleagues in secondary school. Have we done enough assessment? Have we sent enough teachers to handle different subjects because of subject specialization? Exactly what is the position in our junior secondary schools as far as handling subjects is concerned?"
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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I have a supplementary question. Congratulations, Waziri, for the work that you are doing in that Ministry. I am privileged to know that you are working silently but serving Kenyans."
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"content": "You have mentioned that you have started conversations in terms of the 2025- 2029 CBA. My question is; is there consideration for learning and development for these teachers? I know you are negotiating the payments, the salaries and things like that, but there have been concerns where some teachers would like to be facilitated to improve on their skills and their education. Is that going to be considered when you are having those conversations? The other issue is job evaluations. We recently had an issue where we noted that outsiders are brought in school to prepare students for drama festival. There has been the same conversation on sports. Some of the feedback that we got, as leaders, when you were doing job evaluation is that the teachers who are talented or who are skilled in sports or creative arts do not get remunerated. They, therefore, decide not to do an additional task which they feel will be outsourced anyway."
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