Functions and Tenure of the newly constituted Schools’ Board Of Management, BOMs

The Board of Management, BOMs, oversee a number of functions within an institution. Click here for information on Composition of Members Nominated to Secondary schools’ BOM

FUNCTIONS OF BOMs

The Boards Of management perform the following roles:

• They promote the best interests of the school and ensure that there is development within the school.
• Promote quality Education for all learners as enshrined in the Basic Education Act Number 14 of 2013
• Ensure there are adequate physical facilities within the school: Dormitories, Classrooms, Co-Curricular among other facilities.
• Advise the County Education Board, CEB, on the staffing needs of the school.
• Hear and make determination on cases of learners’ indiscipline and present reports to the County Education Boards.
• Prepare termly comprehensive reports on all areas of their mandate and present them to County education boards.
• Provide for the welfare and observe the human rights and ensure safety of the learners, teachers and support staffs within the learning institution.
• Administer and manage schools’ resources.
• Recruit, remunerate and discipline members of the non-teaching staff/ Support staff as may be required by the institution.
• Receive, collect and account for any funds meant for the institution.
• Allow reasonable use of the facilities of the institution for community, social and other lawful purposes.
• Hear and make recommendations on teachers’ discipline cases as guided by the teachers Service Commission’s Regulations.
• Participate during the recruitment of TSC teachers.

TENURE OF THE BOMs

• Once constituted, the Board Of Management’s tenure runs for a period of 3 years from the date of appointment. A member shall be eligible for re-appointment for one final term of a period not exceeding 3 years.

COMMITTEES OF BOMs

The institution’s BOM may appoint the following sub-committees:

1. Human Rights and Students’ welfare Committee.
2. Audit Committee
3. Finance and Procurement Committee.
4. Academic Standards Committee.
5. Discipline, Ethics and Integrity Committee.