Prof. Sam Ongeri

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1881 to 1890 of 1925.

• 16 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I cannot tell the hon. Member for sure that the overall shortage of teachers is 60,000, and out of that there are 47,200 at the primary school level and 12,000 at the secondary school level. The number of slots that are available for recruitment are 6,000. The number of slots available due to natural attrition are 8,428. Given these figures, and given the provision in the Printed Estimates, it is impossible to even guarantee 25 per cent. What I said, and I want to confirm it to this honourable House, is that we will endeavour to ... view
• 15 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, indeed, I have noticed and I had an occasion to address that issue in some various fora last week, when I was having education days in some other centres. Yesterday and today, as a Ministry, we are re-examining the whole issue vis-a-vis what is going on. Regarding the immediate reaction, I will be able to give a detailed statement next week. At around this time, when students are about to sit for their mock examinations, tensions run very high and, therefore, they tend to react in a manner that is different. We cannot allow that type of ... view
• 10 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) I am aware of the shortage of 167 secondary school teachers in Koibatek District. The 1752 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES July 10, 2008 district is, however, over-staffed by 63 teachers at primary school level. It is true that Uhuru- Kabiyet Secondary School has two TSC-employed teachers. (b) Koibatek District will be considered for the shortage at secondary school-level alongside other under-staffed areas in the country during this year's recruitment of teachers. Uhuru- Kabiyet Secondary School will, therefore, be given priority based on the curriculum-based establishment. view
• 10 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the action by Boards of Governors to employ teachers at the secondary school level is always welcome. It is a partnership action. We welcome it in this country. However, I have already given tacit information that Uhuru-Kabiyet Secondary School will be given priority. Let me inform the House that it is not only Uhuru-Kabiyet Secondary School which is under-staffed. We have a shortage of 12,000 teachers in the country, at the secondary school-level, and a countrywide shortage of about 47,000 teachers at the primary school level. If the hon. Member was here yesterday, he must have heard ... view
• 10 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, when we talk of shortages of teachers, we take into account even the areas that are over-staffed. Even if we were to distribute them evenly, we would still be running short of 47,200 teachers in the primary sector and 12,000 teachers in the secondary sector. So, whatever mathematical formula we may use, we will still be ending up with that shortage of teachers. I have said that last year's Budget provided for 4,000 teachers. This year's Budget has provided for 6,000 teachers. It was our expectation that our request for provision for recruitment of 10,000 teachers per ... view
• 10 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am sure the hon. Member is fully aware that, based on the curriculum-based establishments, Uhuru-Kabiyet Secondary School has an enrolment of 145 students. The number of classes are four and, therefore, it qualifies for a single stream. Mr. Speaker, Sir, when looking at the establishment itself, it shall be based purely on the number of streams available in that school and, in this case, Uhuru-Kabiyet Secondary School will be entitled to nine teachers. But, at the moment, they only have two teachers and a shortage of seven teachers. Accordingly, using that formula, we will be able ... view
• 9 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) I am aware of the shortage of teachers in primary schools throughout the country. The current teachers shortage at the primary school level stands at 47,200 as at May, 2007. (b) In the last four years, the Ministry has been replacing teachers who leave the service through natural attrition, resignation and dismissal. In the financial year that has just lapsed, the Ministry received additional funding which enabled us to recruit 4,000 more teachers, bringing the current number of teachers in the country to 239,000, from the previous figure of 235,000. view
• 9 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you will recall that, sometime back, in this House, I did make a statement saying that our expectations and plans would have been well served if we had Exchequer funding to employ 10,000 teachers every year for the next four to five years in order to clear the backlog of teachers. Through funding contained in the current Budget, we will be recruiting additional 6,000 teachers. Over and above, we will be recruiting additional 8,000 teachers to replace those who are leaving the service and those who have died. So, in effect, there will be about 14,000 ... view
• 9 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, absolutely no! The Ministry is not unable. We have, through the captation approach, been able to increase access to books, instruments and other things, making it much easier for teachers to handle slightly larger figures. It would have been very appropriate if we had the money from the Budget. We would, obviously, be able to roll out employment of teachers. I am, however, sorry to say that as it stands today, it is not possible for us to recruit more teachers, because we are limited by the Budget and the ceiling that has been set by ... view
• 9 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am certainly in order because that is one of the ways of reducing the burden on the teacher in delivering the curriculum content. view