TSC Current Teachers 1,206 teachers were sent after some requested time to prepare for the exercise.
TSC’s Most Recent Teacher Assignments The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has started placing 1,206 primary school teachers in junior secondary schools (JSS) around the country as part of the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) implementation.
In a message dated May 23, TSC Acting Director of Human Resources Antonina Lentoijoni instructed regional, district, and sub-district directors to test and assign qualified teachers within a 14-day window.
Ms. Lentoijoni stated in the circular that “you are required to ensure that staffing positions in primary schools are updated and teacher rationalization is conducted within 14 days after deployment” in order to preserve the teaching-learning process.
Only TSC employees who hold a secondary education certification meet the requirements.Educators with a Bachelor of Education (primary option) degree are not qualified to apply.
The circular states that the teachers who will be deployed must be on the list that the TSC head office has provided and must have expressed a desire to move to junior secondary schools.
TSC’s Most Recent Teacher Assignment
Ms. Lentoijoni also instructed directors to ensure that teacher rationalization occurs after deployment and that staffing levels in elementary schools be updated in order to maintain the teaching-learning process.The TSC official underlined the significance of gender balance in deployments and recommended that instructors be transferred to junior secondary units at or around their current stations imbalances in the pairing of topics in order to prevent disruption.
The deployment aims to address teacher shortages and mismatched subject combinations in junior secondary divisions.
The circular further states, “Sub-county directors should not deploy teachers of similar subject combinations with those already posted to JS unless a station requires more than one teacher of the same subject combination.”
Statement from the KUPPET Secretary
The Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) for secondary schools secretary, Henry Obwocha, praised the move and predicted it will help ease the acute teacher shortage in junior secondary schools.
“Even though we are trying to hire more teachers and post them to secondary schools across the nation, which have a skewed teacher-student ratio at a time we are rolling out the CBC system of education, the transfers are a huge move by TSC,” stated Obwocha.
The official also stated the number of instructors who had graduated from diploma programs and upgraded to university degrees.
Despite petitions asking for their elevation and placement in secondary education, they are still taught in primary schools.
He insisted on the permanent status and pensions for the 46,000 contract teachers in the fiscal year 2024–2025.
He said, “We as a union hold the position that the 46,000 employed under contracts should all be absorbed under permanent and pensionable terms. Plans by TSC to employ 26,000 teachers are welcome.”
TSC Current Teachers 1,206 teachers were sent after some requested time to prepare for the exercise.
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