TSC plans to promote P1 Teachers to Junior Secondary to curb shortage
TSC plans to promote P1 Teachers to Junior Secondary to curb shortage. The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) reports that preparations for the promotion of P1 teachers to junior secondary are well under way.
The Commission will encourage primary school graduates to teach in Junior Secondary Schools (JSS) in order to address the current shortage.
TSC indicated that it was actively seeking applications from qualified teachers before deciding where to post them.
This happened at the same time the Commission announced that all 30,550 newly employed teachers had reported to the JSS for the first term.
There has been a major teacher shortage in public schools as a result of the hundreds of students that transferred from primary school to JSS over the course of the previous week.
Despite acknowledging that there was a teacher shortage in JSS, TSC CEO Nancy Macharia soon stated that the government was looking into the issue.
REQUIREMENTS FOR APPLICATION FOR DEPLOYMENT
1. At least a C+ (Plus) mean grade at Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) or its equivalent
2. At least grade C+ (Plus) in the two teaching subjects at Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) or its equivalent
3. At least 8 Units in each of the two teaching subjects
4. Must be serving as a primary school teacher under TSC
She said that the commission was making use of its website to compile applications from recently graduated teachers who were already working as primary school teachers.
“We shall use the data gathered to relocate the qualified teachers from primary schools to junior secondary schools,” she said, “once we have finished the mapping.”
The newly hired instructors had told the JSS that they were having “teething problems” as a result of the shift due to the current teacher shortage, according to Macharia.
Macharia brought up delocalization once more, adding that it had an impact on more than 14,000 teachers and that TSC had taken equality into consideration while making the decisions.
The senate committee’s chairman, Joseph Nyuthu, called the lack of instructors in JSS a problem and urged the government to respond.
The Senator for Murang’a issued a warning that the crisis-stricken condition would worsen when the second group of children enrolls in JSS the next year.
He cautioned that the problem would worsen the following year as more pupils enroll in junior secondary schools. He urged the government to hire more teachers for JSS right away.
Reiterating the Salaries and Remuneration Commission’s (SRC) intention to reduce ECDE teachers’ salaries, the senator criticized it as a waste of the educational system.
He said the Senate would push for a Sh2B grant for each county every financial year to address the issue of ECDE and Vocational Training Centers.
The SRC’s approach, according to Nyutu, is unreasonable and could have an effect on educators’ trust in their work.
He said, “We categorically reject the SRC’s plan to cut ECDE teachers’ salaries as this is an insult to the education sector.