The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has revealed an offer to school heads who are retiring to sign an extension of one and half year contract will.
The heads of schools who are retiring by the 30th of June 2021 have been offered to extend on contract terms for one and half years. However, the Commission has revealed that the offer is not a mandatory one but one that will be optional for retiring heads of schools who are retiring.
In January this year, TSC recruited 2,111 Deputy Head Teachers to the position of Headteachers now categorized under Grade C5 (TSC Scale 10).
The following are TSC’s requirements for one to be appointed as Head Teacher under Grade C5/TSC Scale 10).
A teacher:
- should have served as Deputy Head Teacher for a minimum period of three (3) years;
- should be serving under the career progression guidelines;
- should have a satisfactory rating in the performance appraisal;
- should have served in the grade of Deputy Head Teacher II (Grade C4/T-Scale 9) for a minimum period of three (3) years;
- Should meet the requirement of Chapter six (6) of the Kenyan Constitution.
NB: Having attained a Master’s Degree in the relevant areas will be an additional advantage.
During the application for this position, candidates are required to upload these documents:
- Letter of appointment/deployment to current responsibility.
- Certificate of Good Conduct from the Director of Criminal Investigations.
- Clearance certificate by Higher Education Loans Board (HELB)
- Clearance Application from the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC)
- Clearance certificate from a Credit Reference Bureau
- Tax Compliance Certificate from the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA)
- Letter of appointment to current grade.
A looming crisis in schools has TSC worried after it was revealed that at least 25,000 teachers are going to retire over the next two years (that is by the year 2022) and most of these are heads of schools.
In 2020, the Kenya Union of Post-Primary Teachers (KUPPET) revealed that according to a report half of the 25,000 teachers are above 59 years and were set to retire in June 2021.
“Our finding is that as of November 2020, the teaching service has 25,000 teachers aged 58 and above. This means that Kenya is in a deep crisis of shortage of teachers and this calls for radical measures to address the issue,” revealed Akello Misori, the KUPPET secretary-general.