Prof. Sam Ongeri

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1661 to 1670 of 1925.

• 8 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, for primary schools, the TSC invited interested candidates to present their documents to the District Education Officers (DEOs) in the districts of their choice to be considered for employment within a week from the dates of advertisement. Moreover, the DEOs were asked to compile a district merit list in adherence to the provisions of the recruitment guidelines and to submit the same to TSC within two days after the expiry of the deadline. On the other hand, for post-primary institutions, interested candidates were required to apply to the Board of Governors (BOGs) of the schools or institutions ... view
• 8 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: 14 Thursday, 8th April, 2010(P) submitted minutes together with other relevant documents to the DEOs offices for onward submission to TSC. I wish to highlight the criteria used in the distribution of available teaching posts. The TSC has a formula for calculating primary and post-primary teachers’ shortage against the national shortage. view
• 8 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: This formula is then cascaded to the district and institutional levels. The advertized teaching posts for primary schools were 1,480, while those for post-primary institutions were 1,300 as shown in the appendix. The formula takes into account the district shortage over the national shortage times the number of positions available in that category. In this case, for primary, 1,480 will be the actual shortage within that district over the national shortage times 1,480, which will give us roughly the number of teachers to be employed within that district itself. view
• 8 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, as earlier mentioned, I wish, once again, to clarify that the o-ongoing exercise is meant for recruitment of teachers who have exited service through natural attrition. The merit list submitted to the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) by the District Education Officers (DEOs) has been endorsed by the chairmen of the various DEBs. Because the number of teaching posts in the districts lists was negligible, it was not economical to set up DEBs to select one or two teachers Further, Mr. Speaker, Sir, I wish to inform hon. Members that the Ministry does not allocate teacher shortage slots ... view
• 8 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: 15 Thursday, 8th April, 2010(P) newly recruited teachers will be required to be in the classrooms in May, 2010, when the schools and institutions reopen. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view
• 8 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, starting with hon. Chanzu, I think he did not listen carefully to my Statement. Indeed, why were DEBs not involved? I clearly stated in my Statement that given the number of people who were going to be employed in any given district, it became totally uneconomical to employ them through the DEBs. The next line of choice was to employ our District Education Officers. We had the Chairman of the DEB countersign that aspect and ensure that there is clarity in that area. view
• 8 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, at the expense of reading my Statement, I indicated that I wish to inform the hon. Member that it was not economical to set up DEBs to select a single teacher or two. view
• 8 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: Hon. Abdirahman, I will be coming to you shortly. You do not have to raise a point of order. view
• 8 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will satisfy Mr. Abdirahman in due course. As far as the Member for Vihiga is concerned, he may wish to know that, indeed, his district is one of the very few districts in the country that was noted to have very high threshold of teacher shortage. Therefore, consequently, we gave a total of 12 teachers. Other districts were getting one or two teachers. Therefore, the Member should count himself lucky for getting those 12 teachers. With regard to Mr. Wamalwa--- view
• 8 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. With regard to Eugene Wamalwa and hon. Abdirahman, I would like to assure you that I am a very honest Minister. I have just stated in this hon. House that the list that was submitted at the closure--- view