TSC Announces New Strict Employment Standards
TSC Announces New Strict Employment Standards. The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) Monday offered 20,000 internship positions for teachers in primary and junior secondary schools (JSS).
The advertising allocated 2,000 slots for primary school and the remaining 18,000 for junior secondary.
TSC activated the online application portal and provided interested teachers with a link. But after applying, a number of brand-new issues surfaced, raising concerns.
1. The necessity of ethnicity
Teachers must now identify their ethnicity on the internship application for the first time. Many teachers don’t get the commission’s desire to reveal the teachers’ racial backgrounds.
However, the interim report that the TSC submitted to Parliament in May might be pertinent in this situation.
According to the survey, instructors from the Kalenjin community made up the majority of the 36,000 teachers that TSC employed in January.
Nancy Macharia, the CEO of TSC, provided data showing that 20,990 of the 36,000 teachers employed in January were teachers.
At the time this report was prepared, 20,990 freshly hired teachers from various ethnic groups were employed, according to Macharia. The National Assembly’s Cohesion and Equal Opportunity Committee received this information.
According to TSC records, the Kalenjin group obtained the most spots, followed by other important tribes like the Luhya, Kikuyu, Kamba, Luo, and Kisii.
4,048 Kelenjins, 3,187 Luhya, 2,913 Kikuyu, 2,576 Luo, and 1,737 Kisii were hired, according to the commission’s report.
At the bottom of the list, the communities of Kenyan Arabs, Elmolo, and Murulle each received one position.
TSC Announces New Strict Employment Standards
There were two slots each for Ogaden, Dorobo, Rendille, and Sakuye.
According to the report, 36 of the 42 recognized tribes received one of the 20,990 teaching spots, leaving six towns without even a single spot.
2. Requirement for a Certificate of Good Conduct
Now, a certificate of good behavior is required for qualified teachers who are hired as interns.
The issue of the necessity for the certificate first surfaced in 2021, when Prof. Fatuma Chege, Principal Secretary, State Department for Implementation of Curriculum Reforms, declared that all instructors must possess the certificate of good conduct.
According to Chege, no teacher will be able to teach under the new curriculum (CBC) without a Certificate of Good Conduct.
Prof. Chege claims that this is just one of many modifications that the competency-based curriculum will make in order to support academic honesty.
She asserted that the changes would help to get rid of teachers who lacked proper conduct and work ethics.
Those who teach in private schools will also need to possess it in order to do so.
The Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) issues certificates of good behavior, which are re-expirable after a year.
Additionally, the document will cost Kshs. 1,050 to purchase.
3. There is no room for editing
Teachers looking for internships have found that changing data in the current application after it has been entered and submitted is quite difficult.
Professors used to review submitted data for accuracy in the past. Candidates must use caution, though, as there isn’t a choice in the current hiring process.