TSC seeking to promote and recruit 10,000 new teachers
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has announced its plan of recruiting and promoting more than 10,000 teachers.
The Commission revealed that it will recruit 5,000 secondary school teachers and a further 1,000 teachers for the primary schools across the country.
The teachers set to be recruited will work on Permanent and Pensionable terms in the service.
TSC Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr, Nancy Macharia revealed that the additional recruits are going to alleviate the burden on teachers that are on TSC’s payroll that will be worsened with a looming double intake and the government’s 100 percent transition of pupils from primary to secondary schools.
The Commission will hire a further 2,987 teachers as replacements for those who have left the profession from profession either through natural attrition or retirement.
In primary schools, just 927 teachers will be recruited to replace those who have exited the service.
The National Treasury allocated Sh. 2.5 billion for the recruitment of new teachers. Besides, the Commission has also revealed that it needs around 100,000 teachers to fill the shortages in the teaching profession as well as cover the increased enrolments in schools.
The TSC CEO Nancy Macharia tabled a report to parliament recently outlining how the Commission urgently required Sh. 17 billion to hire 26,000 teachers to cover the higher reaching load as a result of the 100 percent transition of pupils from primary to secondary schools.
In addition, the Commission also revealed that it needed a further Sh. 8.1 billion every year to hire 12,500 teachers to fill normal shortage.
“Under normal staffing, the Commission needed 50,054 teachers to support the existing staff establishment,” Macharia told Parliament.
However, TSC said that only 6,000 new teachers will be hired to fill shortages with 3,914 employed as replacements for those who have left the service.
“Interested and qualified candidates should submit their applications online through the Commission’s website, www.tsc.go.ke under “careers” or teachersonline.tsc.go.ke not later than July 12, 2021,” revealed Dr. Nancy Macharia.
12,000 interns were recruited this year under the COVID-19 economic stimulus package. The interns who were hired at a cost of Sh. 2.4 billion, were part of a bigger plan in the long term to take off pressure from teachers who went through difficult experiences that the novel Coronavirus caused.
Promotions
Dr. Macharia said that an additional 1,000 qualified primary school teachers will be upgraded to teach secondary schools.
However, the TSC CEO warned that those wishing to be promoted and deployed to teach in secondary schools must have P1 certificates.
“They must also have attained at least a C+ (Plus mean grade at the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) or its equivalent and a C+(Plus in the two teaching subjects or its equivalent,” said Dr. Macharia.
“Successful candidates under this category shall be appointed at T-Scale 7, Grade C2 under the Career Progression Guidelines for Teachers and shall be deployed to secondary schools where there are vacancies,” she added.
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