Thousands receive book grants, thousands more to get soon

Thousands of students have so far been awarded book grants worth $1,000 and thousands more are due to receive the same by the end of this week.

At a media briefing today it was revealed that money has already been disbursed via bank and cheque for 7,848 students.

By the end of today into tomorrow 9,017 more will be in receipt under the second tranche, while the third tranche will be approved by August 23rd.

All three tranches will amount to 20 million dollars for 20,000 students.

Also at the briefing, it was announced that the interview process to fill primary school vacancies has been restarted, after the interview questions were leaked online.

The Teaching Service Commission ordered that the process begin again last week, August 12th, to be completed by September 30th.

Until that time, the Ministry says a number of teachers will be hired to fill the vacancies for Term 1 only.

There are 99 Teacher 1 primary vacancies at over 125 government primary schools, of which 42 will be new hires.

 

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