TSC begins deploying 1,206 primary teachers to JSS.
As part of the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) implementation, the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has begun assigning 1,206 primary school teachers to junior secondary schools (JSS) around the nation.
Regional, district, and sub-district directors were directed by TSC Acting Director of Human Resources Antonina Lentoijoni to screen and assign suitable teachers within a 14-day period in a memo dated May 23.
In order to maintain the teaching-learning process, Ms. Lentoijoni said in the circular, “You are required to ensure that staffing positions in primary schools are updated and teacher rationalization is conducted within 14 days after deployment.”
The only teachers who qualify are those who work for TSC and are certified to teach in secondary schools.
Teachers who hold a Bachelor of Education degree (main option) are not eligible to apply.
According to the circular, the teachers who will be deployed must be on the list provided by the TSC head office and must have indicated an interest in relocating to junior secondary schools.
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In order to preserve the teaching-learning process, Ms. Lentoijoni also gave directors instructions to make sure that staffing numbers in primary schools are updated and that teacher rationalization is done after deployment.
In order to minimize disturbance, the TSC official emphasized the importance of gender balance in deployments and suggested that instructors be sent to junior secondary units at or close to their present stations.
imbalances in the pairing of subjects
The deployment intends to rectify subject combination mismatches in junior secondary sections as well as teacher shortages.
“Unless a station requires more than one teacher of the same subject combination, sub-county directors should not deploy teachers of similar subject combinations with those already posted to JS,” the circular adds.
Henry Obwocha, secretary of the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) for secondary schools, applauded the action and said it will assist alleviate the severe teacher shortage in junior secondary schools.
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“The transfers are a major move by TSC, even as we seek to have more teachers employed and posted to secondary schools in the country, which has a skewed teacher-student ratio at a time we are rolling out the CBC system of education,” said Obwocha.
The official also mentioned how many diploma-holding teachers had improved their credentials to university degrees by way of school-based programs.
They are still taught in elementary schools, despite petitions calling for their promotion and placement in secondary education.
In the fiscal year 2024–2025, he demanded that the 46,000 contract teachers be granted permanent status and receive pensions.
“Plans by TSC to employ 26,000 teachers are welcome, but we hold the position as a union that the 46,000 employed under contracts should all be absorbed under permanent and pensionable terms,” he stated.
TSC begins deploying 1,206 primary teachers to JSS.
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