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2022/2023 BUDGET – Elimu Pedia https://elimupedia.com Number One portal for matters education, How to, TSC,KUCCPS, HELB,KRA , Top 10 bests,and Parenting. Thu, 02 Jun 2022 13:54:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Teachers to Receive annual Salary Increment Next Month After Ksh. 298.37B Allocation https://elimupedia.com/teachers-to-receive-annual-salary-increment-in-next-month-after-ksh-298-37b-allocation.html https://elimupedia.com/teachers-to-receive-annual-salary-increment-in-next-month-after-ksh-298-37b-allocation.html#comments Thu, 02 Jun 2022 13:53:59 +0000 https://elimupedia.com/?p=6821 Teachers to Receive annual Salary Increment Next Month After Ksh. 298.37B Allocation

The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) is set to pay teachers employed on permanent and pensionable terms; their annual salary increments in July 2022.

Teachers, those in lower grades included, are set to earn their usual annual salary increment uninterrupted, in July 2022 when TSC gets funds for the purpose.

For instance, teachers in the lowest, B5, also known as Primary Teacher II, will get at least sh.900 in increment starting July 2022.

TSC got the biggest share of Sh298.37 billion of the Sh3.33 trillion national budget in the 2022/2023 national budget. The money received by TSC includes Sh297.72 billion in recurrent expenditure and Sh656 million for development.

The total amount received by TSC will finance teacher resource management; kSh1.16 billion will be spent for governance and standards while Sh7.24 billion will be used for general administration, planning and support services.

According to the 2021-2025 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), teachers in lowest job group, B5, will gradually move until they attain their highest salary point of sh. 27,195. Teachers in higher job groups will also move in the same fashion. A teacher in job group C1 (Primary Teacher I) currently earning a basic salary of sh. 30,405 has not attained the maximum salary point of sh. 33,994 but will gradually reach there through annual salary increments, determined by number of notches.

Annual salary increment used to be paid to teachers depending on the month they were absorbed into TSC payroll.

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However, after coming of the CPG and signing of Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA)2017-202, this changed as teachers were automatically moved to new job groups same month of July. This implies that TSC will make salary changes for a number of teachers in July 2022.

Parliament already revoked two-year salary freeze by Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) that blocked TSC from effecting salary changes.

According to SRC all government institutions including parastatals were restricted from making any salary changes for a period of two years starting July 2021.

The suspension affected basic salary, allowances and benefits of all government workers.

However, Parliament revoked three circulars from the SRC that limited negotiations and salary changes for workers in the public service.

]]> https://elimupedia.com/teachers-to-receive-annual-salary-increment-in-next-month-after-ksh-298-37b-allocation.html/feed 3 Report: Poor Funding, Heavy Workload Will Derail CBC https://elimupedia.com/report-poor-funding-heavy-workload-will-derail-cbc.html Wed, 01 Jun 2022 03:42:18 +0000 https://elimupedia.com/?p=6803 Report: Poor Funding, Heavy Workload Will Derail CBC

Poor funding, heavy workload and the standoff between the Ministry of Education and the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) are derailing the full implementation of the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC), MPs have warned.
According to a report tabled in the National Assembly, the lawmakers say there is a need for TSC and the State Department of Implementation of Curriculum to develop a framework for collaboration in rolling out CBC in service teacher training in readiness for the 2023 transition.
The report of the Budget and Appropriations Committee (BAC) on the estimates of Revenue and Expenditure for 2022/23, says the lack of coordination between TSC and the state department of the curriculum reforms in terms rolling out of the CBC was sending mixed signals on the government’s commitment towards the project.
“This uncoordinated approach may create unnecessary conflict and also send mixed signals in terms of the government’s collective support for the transition to the new curriculum,” reads the report.

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The lawmakers regretted that allocation towards CBC for the estimated 1.6 million Grade Six learners who will transition to Junior Secondary School (JSS) has not been adequately provided for in the 2022/23 budget.
Next year will have a double intake of the last batch of Class Eight joining Form One and the first batch of Grade Six transitioning to JSS.
The MPs also raised concerns that the allocation to the Kenya National Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) and Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE)
examinations have remained at Sh4 billion for the last five years, despite the increased number of candidates taking the examination over the last few years.
“The capitation for secondary learners provided in the 2022/2023 and what is projected over the medium term remains unchanged, it is expected that this amount will increase as the learners transit to junior secondary school in 2023 where the number of secondary school learners is expected to increase from 3 million to 4.4 million. It is expected that 1.4million learners will transit to junior secondary school in 2023 and Sh25 billion is required for capitation,” reads the report.
In addition, the MPs took issue with the many subjects learners transiting to junior secondary school will be subjected to yet they are still too young.
Learners joining junior secondary schools next year under CBC will be required to undertake 16 subjects which the ministry argues aims at providing a broad spectrum of areas of studies to prepare for a spectrum of areas of studies to prepare for specialisation in senior secondary school.
“However, the subjects may create a heavy workload for learners given they are still very young learners,” said the MPs in the report.
The committee at the same time asked the ministry of education to engage the county government in terms of providing support to Early Childhood Development (ECD) centres to transit into the CBC as most of ECD centres at the county level have not fully embraced the CBC model of education delivery despite being the building block.
“The State Department for Implementation of Curriculum reforms should initiate dialogue and collaboration with the county governments to ensure that the CBC policies and priorities are implemented at the ECD level in order to support transition to CBC,” reads the report.
The report of the committee comes at a time when stakeholders in the education sector have raised concerns over the curriculum saying it is shrouded in more confusion.

According to various stakeholders, the much-touted system, which was anticipated to revolutionize the educational sector could come to a halt unless the government moves swiftly to address the challenges raised.
“The rain began beating us from the manner in which the whole thing of CBC was conceptualised. We did not give ourselves ample time to think and research the new system. That is why the implementation seems to be haphazard,” says Dr Evelyn Jepkemei, an education policy expert.
The confusion began after Government Spokesman Col (Rtd) Cyrus Oguna and a senior official in the Directorate of Secondary Education Lawrence Karuntini kicked off a storm with assertions that learners who will transition to Junior Secondary School next year under CBC will attend day schools.
The issue has been complicated by threats from leaders of the Kenya Kwanza Alliance led by the Deputy President that they would change the system and revert to the 8-4-4 system.
Further, according to Karuntini, categorization of schools as either national, extra-county, county or sub-county will not apply at Junior Secondary once CBC is rolled out in secondary schools in January.
“Our focus is that this should be a day rather than a boarding school. The transition from Grade Six to Seven will be in such a way that students transit to schools that
are nearby,” Karuntini said.
A deputy director in the State Department for the Implementation of Curriculum Reforms, Ruth Mugambi, a technical advisor to the Principal Secretary, said learners who will join Grade Seven next year will be taught by secondary school teachers.
A day later, Magoha was in the news, rebuking his officers and insisting that Junior Secondary School will be offered in both boarding and day secondary schools under CBC.
“All the existing boarding and day secondary schools will admit learners transiting from Grade Six to Grade Seven under CBC based on guidelines to be provided by the ministry,” Magoha stated.
Although the government has insisted that JSS would be domiciled in secondary schools with some primary institutions with enough capacity being allowed to host some, a section of primary head teachers have been pushing to have Grade Seven and Eight hosted in lower school levels.

]]> All Teachers Likely To Foot Full TPD Training Costs Despite Court Order https://elimupedia.com/all-teachers-likely-to-foot-full-tpd-training-costs-despite-court-order.html Mon, 11 Apr 2022 02:19:15 +0000 https://elimupedia.com/?p=6061 All Teachers Likely To Foot Full TPD Training Costs Despite Court Order

Teachers may have to pay for their professional training as the government failed to factor in Sh4.5 billion to foot the cost.

National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani said the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) had been allocated Sh294.7 billion, an increase of about Sh13 billion up from last year’s budget.

Mr Yatani did not indicate whether the increment would factor in Teachers Professional Development (TPD) training costs.

The TPD programme targets all registered teachers in public and private institutions in Kenya.

There are about 750,446 registered teachers in the country. Of these, 341,760 are under the TSC payroll.

Another 170,000 are registered and teaching in private schools. Some 238,686 are registered but not yet employed.

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Each teacher is expected to pay Sh6,000 for each module every five years.

In an entire teaching career, each teacher will be required to take five modules within 30 years, translating to about Sh180,000. MPs requested that the training cost be met by the government.

There were early indications that some Sh2 billion had been set aside for the TPD programme.

But Yatani steered clear of the matter and unions are now curious.

Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet) secretary-general Akello Misori blamed Yatani for leaving out TPD in the budget allocations.

Mr Misori said failure to include TPD in the allocation will burden teachers more and affect the quality of education.

“The budget was so kind to the Ministry of Education and all the relative institutions which back up education in Kenya. How I wish the training allocation to address Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) could also cater for professionalisation of teaching.”

Kuppet and the Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) said even though continuous training sharpens skills, the cost should be carried by the employer.

Knut Secretary-General Collins Oyuu said the training cost should be paid by the government.

“We have pronounced ourselves on this matter and we are clear that the cost should be paid by the government,” he said.

Mr Misori added: “When it comes to appropriation, the same figure given to education should be re-dissected to factor in the components of increasing teachers’ numbers and look at CBC alongside TPD. This will guarantee a fair distribution of resources.”

He said the parliamentary Committee on Education had appreciated that TPD was supposed to be financed by the budgetary allocation from the Ministry.

The TSC is implementing the mandatory professional training course for all the tutors.

TSC Regulation 49(1) says every teacher who successfully completes a professional teacher development programme shall be issued with a teaching certificate by the Commission in the manner prescribed under the Ninth Schedule.

And under Regulation 49 (3), a teacher who fails to take out a teaching certificate shall have the certificate of registration suspended until the teacher obtains the certificate.

]]> High School Heads Win Big in 2022/2023 Budget as Primary School Heads, TSC Face Disappointment https://elimupedia.com/high-school-heads-win-big-in-2022-2023-budget-as-primary-school-heads-tsc-face-disappointment.html Fri, 08 Apr 2022 06:50:54 +0000 https://elimupedia.com/?p=6034 High School Heads Win Big in 2022/2023 Budget as Primary School Heads, TSC Face Disappointment

The education sector is among the biggest beneficiaries in this year’s budget, according to the proposals presented in Parliament Thursday by National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani.

The CS proposed an allocation of Sh544.4 billion for the sector, with the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) taking the lion’s share of the funds.

Mr Yatani proposed Sh298.4 billion for TSC, a big increase from the Sh281.7 billion it received in last year’s budget.

However, primary school heads will be disappointed, as Mr Yatani gave Sh12 billion to the free primary education programme, the same amount as last year, despite complaints that schools require more money to run the institutions.

The capitation for learners in primary schools has remained the same (Sh1,420) since the programme was established in 2003, despite inflation over the years.

Secondary school principals will be happier after the CS proposed an allocation of Sh64.4 billion, up from the Sh62.2 billion the schools received last year under the free day secondary education programme. The allocation includes funds meant for learners’ insurance under the National Hospital Insurance Fund. Out of the proposed allocation to the TSC, Sh2.5 billion will go towards the recruitment of teachers and Sh1.2 billion for training of teachers on the competency-based curriculum. Sh5 billion will fund the examination fee waiver for Grade Six, Standard Eight and Form Four candidates, while Sh1.96 billion has been allocated to the school feeding programme.

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“The transition rate from primary to secondary schools moved from 64.5 percent in 2012 to the current 100 percent,” he said.

]]> Teachers to reap Big in the 2022/ 2023 Budget to Be Read Today https://elimupedia.com/teachers-to-reap-big-in-the-2022-2023-budget-to-be-read-tomorrow.html https://elimupedia.com/teachers-to-reap-big-in-the-2022-2023-budget-to-be-read-tomorrow.html#comments Wed, 06 Apr 2022 17:45:20 +0000 https://elimupedia.com/?p=6016 Teachers to reap Big in the 2022/ 2023 Budget to Be Read Today

This year’s national budget which will be the last one under President Uhuru Kenyatta will be read tomorrow.

The Budget of Sh3.3 trillion will be read early to allow time for members of Parliament to deliberate on the main component of the Budget which include proposed revenue sources and expenditure plans for the financial year commencing July 2022.

Outlined below is a list of various benefits and areas that teachers will harvest from the budget.

Salary arrears for selected Job groups

In the budget set to be read teachers will benefit immensely. One of the benefits is salary arrears for category of teachers which TSC said it will pay after the budget.

The Commission says it will pay teachers in grades C4, C5,D1,D2, D3 and D4 because they have not yet attained the maximum salary points provided for in the salary banding as outlined in the CBA 2017-2021.

TSC says it will extend the salary points for these grades starting 1st July 2020.The Commission says it will pay the teachers their salary increment with arrears from the date they attained the maximum salary point to January 2022.

“The arrears will be processed by July 2022 when funds become available,” said the Commission.

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Talks to include money component in the CBA 2021-2025 between TSC and teachers unions Knut,Kuppet and Kusnet were suspended. Kuppet’s push to have the talks resume by issuing strike threat also flopped.

Following the collapse of the talks, teachers may miss the usual salary increment which they enjoy yearly after budget as a result of signed CBA’s. Teachers in grades B5, C1,C2, C3 and D5 may not see anything that touches on their salaries.

Money for recruitment of new teachers.

The TSC boss Dr. Nancy Macharia while appearing in Parliament had requested some Sh5.3 billion to recruit 8,000 teachers for the 100 per cent transition.

Macharia also told the Education Committee that it will require Sh1.2 billion to recruit 6,000 interns.TSC said it has been recruiting 5,000 teachers annually to match the increased enrolment in public schools.

Macharia thanked the government for setting aside sh. 2.5 billion for recruiting 5,000 teachers this year.

In budget estimates, Treasury Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani had allocated an additional Sh14.9 billion to TSC, whose budget has risen to Sh295.9 billion from Sh281.7 billion in the new financial year.

During the resource sharing at the Sector Working Group,the commission said it was allocated Sh295.9 billion for recurrent expenditure against a projected requirement of Sh310.5 billion.

TSC will receive an extra Sh15 billion for the 2022 -2023 financial year. Initially there were rumours that the Commission will use the additional funds to award teachers a payrise. However TSC refuted the claims. Instead it said it will use the sh15 billion to employ 13,000 secondary school teachers and 9,000 interns to cope with exits and the expected increase in enrolment when junior secondary is rolled out in January 2023.

The Commission said this through a report which was presented to the Committee on Education and Research of the National Assembly by the Parliamentary Budget Office.

The commission also said priorities identified in the 2022/23 budget and the medium term were informed by the 2019-2023 strategic plan and the medium-term plan III of Vision 2030.

During the period, TSC had proposed to recruit 25,000 teachers,out of which 13,000 on permanent and pensionable terms and another 12,000 interns annually for the next three years.

Despite the financing shortfall,the commission said that 15,000 additional teachers were recruited and deployed to support implementation of the 100 per cent transition to secondary school.

Commission further explained that some 5,000 teachers were employed in 2019/20,2020/21 and 2021/22 financial years respectively. Similarly, TSC developed a framework for hiring teachers on internship and 28,300 were recruited.

In the 2019/2020,some 10,300 teacher interns were recruited while 12,000 and 6,000 were recruited in the 2020/21 and 2021/22 financial years respectively.

Money for promotion and deployment of teachers

TSC boss Nancy Macharia told the committee that it will require sh2 billion for promotion of teachers on competitive selection. The Commission has been promoting teachers to various cadres in line with the Career Progression Guidelines(CPG).

TSC has also being promoting primary school teachers with degree in secondary option to teach in secondary schools. The Commission promotes 1,000 practising P1 teachers each year by deploying them to teach in secondary schools.

Advertisement for promotion of teachers usually happens in September each year. Promotion of teachers to administrative gra for teachers in Arid and Semi Arid Land(ASAL).

Promotion of teachers to administrative grades for teachers in Arid and Semi Arid Land (ASAL) happen on affirmative action. TSC only awaits for funds to confirm school administrators in acting capacity in ASAL areas.

Money for Biometric registration and TPAD and PC exercise

For implementation of Teachers Performance Appraisal and Development(TPAD)and performance contract (PC), the TSC boss said the agency is seeking Sh10 million.

TSC said it suspended the biometric registration exercise which was planned for roll out in March due to lack of funds. “Teacher mentorship and coaching programme requires an estimated Sh50 million while the roll out of a national Biometric Enrolment and Validation of tutors will be done at a cost of Sh342.4 million,” said Macharia in parliament.

Money for other key areas in the sector

The Commission proposed to train Grade Six and Seven teachers in readiness for 2023 when the first CBC cohort will transit to Junior Second a cost Sh2.52 billion. TSC has organized training of 60,000 secondary school teachers in April 2022.

The Commission also made a proposal to automate and integrate its systems for paperless operations at a cost of Sh335 million, roll out of national biometric enrollment and validation of teachers valued at Sh342.4 million but were not financed.

TSC wants facilitation of Sh600 million for gratuity to 3,358 contract teachers in the Northern frontier and construction of additional county office accommodation estimated at a cost of Sh183.6 million.

The Commission has also been seeking funds to implement the new hardship areas following the conclusion of the hardship review exercise and submission of report.

]]> https://elimupedia.com/teachers-to-reap-big-in-the-2022-2023-budget-to-be-read-tomorrow.html/feed 1 Blow to CBC as new budget Ignores junior high School costs https://elimupedia.com/blow-to-cbc-as-new-budget-ignores-junior-high-school-costs.html Sun, 06 Feb 2022 11:51:20 +0000 https://elimupedia.com/?p=5440 Blow to CBC as new budget Ignores junior high School costs

The ministry of education has asked Parliament to recommend and approve allocation of extra funds to cater for junior secondary school students in January 2022 as the allocation for the JSS students has been ignored in the 2022/23 budget.

Responding to the National Assembly Education and Research committee on the Budget Policy Statement 2022, Basic Education Principal Secretary Julius Jwan and the Implementation of Curriculum Reforms secretary Fatuma Chege said the rollout of junior secondary could be paralysed should the government fail to budget for tuition.

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“No capitation has been allocated to go to junior secondary school students in the budget estimates for the 2022/23 financial year,” said Jwan. Only cash for classrooms was allocated.

About 1.5 million Grade Six learners who are currently at Grade Five are expected to transit to junior secondary in January 2022.

The ministry has proposed that MPs recommend and approve Sh28 billion to cater for Grade Seven students.

Chege said junior secondary students will be hosted in secondary schools as recommended in the CBC taskforce report and that requires government’s funding.

The PS said only primary schools sharing the same compound with secondary schools and have extra classrooms may be considered to host learners in junior secondary school.

“For those that may be hosted in primary schools, we shall create a separate wing from the primary schools. Their management will also be that of secondary schools,” Prof Chege told the committee chaired by Busia Woman Rep Florence Mutua.

She said the construction of over 10,000 classrooms in secondary schools is ongoing and expected to end in April.

More funding is required to ensure more classrooms are built to facilitate a smooth roll-out of the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC), Prof Chege said.

The ministry has also requested more funding to sustain free day education. Dr Jwan said in 2022/23, his department intends to disburse Sh12.41 billion under free primary capitation to 8700,000 learners in public primary schools at a rate of Sh1, 420 per learner.

They will also distribute 6,288,653 sanitary towels to 898,379 in targeted primary schools and that will require Sh270 million, but only Sh200 million has been allocated.

Under free day secondary education (FDSE), Dr Jwan said the ministry intends to disburse capitation to 4,381,701 students at the rate Sh22,244 per learner. He, however, said the programmes have been underfunded. In the FDSE, only Sh64.42 billion has been allocated against a requirement of Sh74.53 billion, creating a deficit of Sh10.11 billion.

Funding for the construction of CBC classrooms has been cut by half. “This was a presidential directive to construct 10,000 classrooms at a cost of Sh8 billion. In the current financial year, the Treasury approved Sh4 billion. But in the 2022/23 financial year, only Sh2 billion has been approved, instead of the Sh4 billion required to cater for infrastructure at junior secondary,” said Dr Jwan.

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