TSC Announces Deployment of 26,000 Teachers to JSS: How To Apply.
Thanks to the National Assembly’s intervention, junior secondary school teachers can now finally breathe a sigh of relief as their employment on permanent and pensionable (P and P) conditions is guaranteed.
The 26,000 instructors hired in the first batch of the JSS internship program will work on Pand P conditions beginning on July 1.
The Teachers Service Commission and President William Ruto previously corresponded, stating that the intern teachers planning demonstrations in favor of the P and P terms were anticipating official approval in January 2025.
Most of the people now serving have internship contracts that end in January 2025.
Julius Melly, the chair of the education committee, did, however, advise the Budget and Appropriations Committee on Monday that Sh8.3 billion had been set aside for their employment.
Speaking to the budget committee, Melly said, “The Teachers Service Commission should streamline the recruitment process to ensure that resources allocated to this function are utilised fully at the beginning of the next financial year.”
“As previously indicated, the commission should convert the 26,000 intern teachers to P and P terms beginning in July 2024 and January 2025.”
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The withdrawal of intern teachers’ materials and their demands for P and P periods caused a teaching paralysis in junior secondary schools across the country.
Some of them assert that they have already received show cause letters from TSC for missing work, and that the court order earlier granted in favor of the JSS interns was postponed until August 1, 2024.
On April 17, Justice Bryrum Ongaya of the Employment and Labour Relations Court found that TSC had violated the intern instructors’ entitlement to fair labor practices because they are certified and licensed teachers.
“The respondents have not exhibited statutory regulatory or policy arrangements that would entitle the first respondent (TSC) to employ interns,” Ongaya said in the verdict.
As per the ruling, the first respondent should hire registered teachers on nondiscriminatory terms and endeavor to meet the staffing needs of public schools as much as possible.
The Forum for Good Governance and Human Rights filed a petition challenging the Teacher Internship Program, and the Court eventually decided to grant their request.
Primary teachers received Sh15,000 and secondary teachers received Sh20,000 when the internship program began in 2019.
The JSS interns argued that there wasn’t enough money to support their way of life during their demonstrations.
TSC noted that the deadline for the application will be on March 18, 2024.
Teachers interested in being deployed to JSS are required to visit https://t.co/omcJNElMIH, and submit their credentials including the TSC number and the ID number.
The announcement comes a month after TSC CEO Nancy Macharia admitted that junior secondary schools are struggling with teacher shortages.
Macharia disclosed that there is a shortage of 42,117 teachers, with only 56,928 teachers available for the needed 99,045.
The TSC boss also pointed out that there is an excess of 18,194 teachers in primary schools that the commission plans to redistribute to schools facing understaffing to maintain the recommended 1:40 teacher-learner ratio.
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