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TSC: CEO Dr. Nancy Macharia makes the following statement about teachers in Junior Secondary
TSC: CEO Dr. Nancy Macharia makes the following statement about teachers in Junior Secondary. According to Dr. Nancy Macharia, CEO,Teachers Service Commission (TSC), they are identifying teachers in the service who have the necessary credentials to teach at the recently opened Junior Secondary School (JSS).
TSC: CEO Dr. Nancy Macharia makes the following statement about teachers in Junior Secondary
According to Dr. Macharia, there are manyTSC: CEO Dr. Nancy Macharia makes the following statement about teachers in Junior Secondary primary school teachers with degrees and other credentials who are willing to teach in junior secondary schools (JSS), and this will be done in an effort to address the shortage.
The TSC Boss advised teachers interested in transferring to junior secondary to apply through the portal that had been set up on the TSC website.
The country has approximately 112, 000 registered Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) teachers, according to Macharia, who was speaking in Naivasha on the sidelines of an induction training for the Senate Standing Committee on Education.
However, the 47 counties only employ less than 50,000 instructors in this autonomous area of education.
To ensure equity in the public schools, the TSC Boss stated that they would also be attempting to balance out the teacher-student ratio.
If a primary school, for example, has ten graduate teachers, Dr. Macharia explained, “we would try to balance it out by sending some to the surrounding schools who have a shortfall so that they may also participate in teaching the JSS since they have the qualifications.”
Macharia acknowledged that the new JSS had been experiencing teething issues, but he reassured Kenyans that they were working nonstop to make sure it launched well.
“To facilitate the seamless launch of the JSS, we have deployed 30,550 new teachers, the highest number ever. As a result, we have made sure that every JSS class in the public primary schools has at least one new teacher who will train other teachers to teach JSS as we continue to map out the teacher-student ratio for equity and hire more, according to the TSC Boss.
She stated that 10,000 teachers were employed permanently and 20,000 were interns, but these interns will soon be hired permanently.
Dr. Macharia categorically stated that they have always considered and will continue to consider the personal interests of teachers on the subject of teacher delocalization and refuted claims that this had caused family instability.
The delocalization of 14,733 people, she continued, had taken into account their individual interests and equity so that other locations wouldn’t be left without teachers.
In order to address the severe teacher shortage in public schools, Mr. Joe Nyutu, chair of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, fought for increased financing to the Education Ministry.
For instance, the addition of Grade Eight to JSS the next year will need the hiring of more instructors, according to Nyutu.
Since teaching is a vocation whose quality and value should be protected, Nyutu, who is also the senator for Murang’a, opposes any suggestions to lower the entry grade into Teachers’ Training Colleges.
Additionally, he added, “there are many qualified teachers out there who are still unemployed.”
Nyutu also pledged to urge the national government for funding, around Sh2 billion per county, for the renovation of ECDE and Vocational Training Centers (VTCs).