The Kenya National Union of Teachers, or KNUT, is pushing the Teachers Service Commission to allow teachers with the C (plain) to be deployed and teach in secondary schools.
Currently, the teachers’ employer, TSC, only permits individuals with a minimum mean grade of C+ and a minimum C+ in the two teaching subjects to teach in secondary schools.
This week, TSC started advertising for more than 35,000 teaching jobs, concentrating on both public elementary and secondary schools.
“We cannot let petty politicians interfere with educational issues in this noble profession. Politicians should abstain entirely. This is not a chief’s issue, according to Oyuu.
Politicians were asked by the KNUT head to identify and address any problems the commission may have, but not to act as a recruiting firm.
“We cannot let petty politicians interfere with educational issues in this noble profession. Politicians should abstain entirely. This is not a chief’s issue, according to Oyuu.
Politicians were asked by the KNUT head to identify and address any problems the commission may have, but not to act as a recruiting firm.
During a speech in Kisumu, Oyuu declared that politicians would not be permitted to interfere with the country’s efforts to recruit teachers.
The commission’s mandate includes the hiring of teachers. Anyone who claims to have experience in recruitment should be denounced as harshly as possible, he said.
He questioned the centralization of hiring teachers since it gave politicians the chance to influence the hiring of their kin.
Oyuu noted that they had written to the commission about the issue of the instructors’ progress and stagnation, and the commission has promised to examine the issues.
Within two fiscal years, the government promises to reduce the teacher shortfall in public schools by 116,000.