Kenyan Teachers to Undergo CBC Training Ahead of Junior Secondary School Enrollment

Kenya’s Teachers Service Commission says 60,000 teachers will undergo Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) training ahead of Junior Secondary School enrolment in January.

According to Chief Executive Officer Nancy Macharia, the training will start on Monday and is set to be concluded on the May 13.

The TSC boss confirmed that the 229,292 primary school teachers and teacher training college tutors have been trained on the Competence Based Curriculum (CBC).

She indicated that The TSC has been allocated Ksh2.5billion in the recently read budget which will be used in the recruitment of 5,000 teachers on permanent terms in the next financial year.

She confirmed that the government has allocated the TSC Ksh1.2 billion to hire 6,000 interns as a stopgap measure to address the 114,581-teacher shortage in the schools.

She commended the teachers for being resilient during the pandemic period as most of them defied the raging COVID-19 effects to assist in preparing learners to cover the syllabus.

Also, she appreciated the approval of the ‘Mwalimu Award’ by the president, which was earlier proposed by the commission to be given to well performing teachers especially those who volunteered during the pandemic.