Gov’t to Employ Pastors in All Schools Across the Country
If the suggestions of the Presidential Working Party on Education Reforms are adopted, the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) will hire pastors and Imams to support Value-based Education (VbE) in schools.
The report that President William Ruto received on Tuesday, August 1, states that stakeholders in the education sector underlined a need to raise awareness of VbE.
The taskforce suggested that in order to accomplish this, all members of the school community should be involved, values should be incorporated into all subject areas, and formal chaplaincy programmes should be developed and implemented in schools.
The Ministry of Education (MoE) will be tasked with creating structured chaplaincy (religious and moral) and counselling guidelines and programmes if the recommendation is approved.
The Ministry of Education, professional counselling agencies for the legal profession, and faith-based institutions will work together to produce curricula.
“TSC shall employ and deploy teachers as chaplains/imams in schools, and the chaplains/imams can be shared between schools,” PWP advised.
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The task panel did not go into specifics of the educational requirements for pastors and imams who will work with TSC. Furthermore, there was no mention of the religious figures who would fill the positions.
TSC will also be charged with making sure that schools uphold the constitutional rights to freedom of religion of every student.
According to a portion of the paper, “the Basic Education Act should include a provision on facilitation of religious rights of learners in schools, including the sponsored schools.”
The proposal also suggested giving the Education Cabinet Secretary the responsibility of holding consultative forums with all national religious groups.
The proposal’s goal, according to the report, is to create regulations aimed at facilitating the exercise of all students’ religious freedoms in institutions of basic education.
Gov’t to Employ Pastors in All Schools Across the Country
