President Ruto’s government has allocated 1 Billion shillings for the financial year 2024/2025 to the Teachers Service Commission with the allocation aimed purposely to facilitate teachers’ promotions.

The teachers’ commission is now in the process of having about 36,000 teachers promoted.

Speaking at a meeting with stakeholders, TSC chief executive officer Nancy Macharia said the commission has recruited 56,000 more teachers with 10,000 absorbed on permanent and pensionable terms adding that intern teachers will also be employed.

Meanwhile, TSC is proposing diploma as the minimum entry level for teachers with a C plain as a requirement for teachers training in the country.

This allocation underscores the Kenya Kwanza government’s continued support to the education sector. President Ruto’s administration has cited education as one of the biggest pillars of economic growth, with the President promising to oversee the solution to the challenges that have engulfed the sector.

President Ruto announced that his government will recruit 20,000 teachers in the year 2024, a move that will make a significant improvement in the human resource challenge in Kenyan schools as well as reduce the rates of unemployment in the country.