Public school teachers to renew certificates every 5 years

Teachers in public schools will now be required to renew their professional certificates after every five years.Teachers will now be required to undertake in-service professional training lasting five years.

The professional development will run for 30 years and has six modules each lasting five years and teachers will be required to pay Sh6,000 for each module.. Four institutions have been contracted on an annual long agreement with an option for extension.

These institutions are; Kenyatta University, Mount Kenya University, Raira and Kenya Education Management Institute will be responsible for the training

“We had a very hard time in negotiating for teachers because when you are at the negotiations table they referred to teachers as unskilled or semi-skilled,” Macharia said.

With the roll out, Macharia says there is going to be respect for the teaching profession to match other professions like law and engineering