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A section of Junior Secondary School teachers address the press at a Nairobi hotel on December 23, 2023. [Collins Kweyu, Standard]
Thousands of intern teachers have threatened not to resume duty in January unless the government employs them on permanent and pensionable terms as per an earlier agreement, a move that may spell doom for Junior Secondary Schools (JSS) where they were posted.
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC), hire 46,000 intern teachers to bridge bridge the gap as it bids to address the challenge of the shortage of teachers. Of these, 21,500 were deployed to JSS.
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