Teachers have recently shown a face smile after a new pay deal signed by their Union and their employer, Teachers Service Commission (TSC).

Their payslips have an increment of between Sh785 and Sh5, 141 as minimal and maximum amount respectively.

This is after the government had approved a 7-10% increment as civil officials intend to receive updated payslips.

The deal of salary increase was signed by Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT), the Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) and the Kenya Union of Special Needs Education Teachers (KUSNET).

However, the civil officials will be required to pay additional taxes on their newly salaries, for instance, a government employee earning Sh.100k per month will now pay Sh.1500 as house levy tax and Sh.880 to Sh.2400 as NSSF Contributions. Previously, teachers were exempted the NSSF deductions.

Kenya National Union of Teachers Sec General Collins Oyuu said that the increment will cushion teachers against all the deductions.

“The pay rise will be used to cushion teachers from the new deductions, inflation and high cost of living,” said Oyuu.

The pay hits different to the teachers in grades C4, C5, D4 and D5 as the will not receive any increment.

However, under the new signed deal, teachers in Grade 5B will get a minimum pay rise of sh.2,074 from Sh.21756 to Sh. 23830.

Those in job group C1 will get Sh.29,787 from Sh.27,195 and those in C2 will get Sh.38,286 from Sh.34955.

Those in C3 will get Sh.45,671 from Sh.43,154, those in C4 will get no rise as their salaries Sh.52,308.

Teachers in D1 will get an increase of Sh.785 from 77,840 to Sh.78,625, D2 Sh. 1,455 from 91,041 to Sh.92,496 and D3 Teachers Sh.1,399 increment from 104,644 to Sh. 106,043.

Those in D4 and D5 won’t get any rise pay as their salaries remain stand still Sh 114,242 and Sh.131 380 respectively.

TSC CEO Nancy Macharia said that the commission had in the period promoted 14,738 as there are still 36,275 pending vacancies.

On Monday 28th,schools reopened after two-week holiday break. Parents are seen making arrangements with their children to have the final term run.

It’s at this time that the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) has revealed that this year, the body is expecting to have 2.3M candidates who will be sitting for their KCPE and KCSE Exams.

Schools are not alleged to prepare their learners and have them ready for the exams.

The Kenya National Examination Council has released the timetable, requirements and instructions for the Kenya Certificate of secondary Education that learners will be expected to abide by.

The KCSE exams are set to commence on November 6th across all the schools in the country. Students will start with English and chemistry( Functional Skills) papers.

The 2023 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) will end on Friday November, 24h as those students taking Physics will be concluding their practical.

Examination irregularities is prohibited , and as per that Kenya National  Examination Council has issued strict instructions to the candidates who will be sitting for the exams. The council however warned candidates not to bring any paper, books, notes or materials except for the needed question papers that is explicitly authorized by the council. Any student who will appear thirty minutes late for the required time will not be given the exam, the council added.

If by any chance a candidate commits any of the irregularity, he or she will have the results for the whole subject cancelled and the candidate will receive a “Y” overall.

According to KNEC, if their will exhibit for the widespread irregularities in any examination center, the examination results for the entire center will be cancelled.

Candidates are advised to slightly reach the examination venue earlier before the starting time and conduct themselves in a good manner during the exams period.