Some teachers who were employed to work under the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) in September this year are yet to receive their posting letters.
The teachers have vented their frustrations as they watch their colleagues being posted to their new schools to begin working under permanent and pensionable terms.
TSC recruited a total of 14,460 teachers last month in a bid to address the shortage of teachers in public primary and secondary schools and as replacements for retired tutors.
However, it has been revealed that a good number of teachers have not yet received their posting letters despite TSC CEO Nancy Macharia saying that letters of employment have already been released.
In her address at the Kenya School of Government in Nairobi on Wednesday the 5th of October during the World Teachers’ Day Celebrations, TSC CEO Dr Nancy Macharia said that TSC had posted all teachers recruited last month.
“The TSC has posted 14,460 new teachers who were recruited last month arising from the fresh recruitment, and replacement of teachers who left service through natural attrition,” said TSC CEO Dr Nancy Macharia.
The roadmap guiding the recruitment exercise indicated that all successful recruits were supposed to be posted to schools at the start of September.
However, during the filling of employment forms, it was revealed that some teachers will be posted by the end of the year.
In some counties, the employment forms had a date indicating when the teacher will be posted.
Some teachers’ employment forms indicated that they were to be posted in September, while others it was in October and November and the last group is to be posted in December this year.
Usually, it takes the Commission around three months to post a teacher to a school once he/she has filled out the employment form.
At the moment recruits are still receiving posting letters despite the delays being experienced across the country.
Some teachers had resigned from employment in private schools hoping that TSC will post them early but they are now in a difficult position financially with their families still depending on them following delays by TSC to release more letters.
For primary school teachers, their posting letters are found at the County Director’s Office while in secondary school posting letters, they get from secondary school Principals.
Primary School teachers are being posted in counties that are away from their Home Counties. Under the TSC, this is called ‘delocalization’.
TSC Roadmap For Recruitment of Teachers for July 2022
ACTIVITY | TIMELINES | DURATION |
Presentation of the proposal for the identified vacancies to the Board | Monday 20th June 2022 | 1 Day |
Advertise vacant posts | Tuesday 28th June 2022 | 1 Day |
Virtual Sensitization of Regional & County Directors | Friday 1st July 2022 | 1 Day |
Online Applications | Tuesday 28th June 2022 – Thursday 7th July 2022 | 10 days |
Collection of Employment Forms by County Directors | Tuesday 5th July 2022 | 1 Day |
Generation of Applicants’ Lists by County Directors Validation of applicants at the HQs | Friday 8th July 2022 | 1 Day |
Shortlisting of Applicants by the County Selection panel Compilation of the regional shortlist | Monday 11th July 2022 – Tuesday 12th July 2022 | 3 Days |
Publishing of the list of shortlisted candidates on the TSC website | Wednesday 13th July 2022 – Friday 15th July 2022 | 3 Days |
County Selection Process and Filling of Application for Employment Forms by Successful Candidates | Thursday 21st July 2022 – Wednesday 27th July 2022 | 5 Days |
Vetting and Handling of Complaints at the County Level | Thursday 28th July, 2022 – Wednesday 3rd August 2022 | 3 Days |
Receiving Recruitment Documents at the TSC Headquarters | Thursday 4th August 2022 – Friday 5th August 2022 | 2 Days |
Compilation of Successful Applicant Lists and Processing of Appointment Letters | Monday 8th August 2022 – Friday 27th August 2022 | 15 Days |
Reporting of Teachers to Schools | Thursday 1st September 2022 | |
COUNTY DIRECTORS TO SUBMIT REPORTING STATUS BY 3RD OCTOBER, 2022 |