Sessional Paper No. 11 of 1967 on the Teaching Service Proposals by the Government of Kenya for the Implementation of the Recommendations Contained in the Report of the Public Service Salaries Review Commission

Abstract

The Government welcomes the report of the Commission on Teachers salaries and terms of service contained in the report and accepts in principle the main recommendations contained therein. The object of this Sessional Paper is to set out in general and also in specific terms, Government's views on the recommendations and the proposals for their implementation. The marginal reference to paragraphs refers to paragraphs of the report. The present salary scales and terms of service for the Teaching Service came into force with effect from 1st April 1964, as a result of the Pratt Commission's recommendations on the salaries and terms of service for the Teaching Service. The salary scales and conditions of service in the Teaching Service have now been investigated twice since 1964. In 1965, a Board of Inquiry was appointed by the Minister for Labour to look into the problems existing in the Teaching Service. The Board of Inquiry produced a report in August 1966 making certain recommendations affecting the Teaching Service. This report was overtaken by events as the Government. had meanwhile started making preparations for the appointment of the recent Public Service Salaries Review Commission to deal with the whole of the Public Service including the Teaching Service, Local Government services as well as conditions of service for staff of statutory bodies. The Government therefore considered it inadvisable to deal with the Teaching Service alone as such a consideration would have prejudiced the work of the Public Service Salaries Review Commission. The problems in the Teaching Service were therefore referred to the Public Service Salaries Review Commission, the report of which the Government now proposes to deal with in this. Sessional Paper.