Government urged to move grade 9 class to secondary schools

President William Ruto has announced a freeze of the hiring of an additional 20,000 teachers as a result of budgetary constraints due to the withdrawal of the 2024 finance bill. Meanwhile, the Kenya union of post-primary teachers has expressed concerns over the scrapping of the Kenya national examination council budget, warning that either parents will have to foot the cost or there will be no national exams unless the government reinstates the budget. However, in the spirit of austerity measures, KUPPET has urged the government to move grade 9 classes to secondary schools as the current form one system will be phased out next year, creating space and the availability of teachers.