TSC Team to Lose Its Powers of Managing Schools
TSC Team to Lose Its Powers of Managing Schools. If the latest recommendations made by the education reform team are approved, the mother ministry might gain access to crucial Quality Assurance and Standards (QAS) activities currently performed by the employer of instructors.
According to the revised recommendations, the personnel currently handling these duties at the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) would be moved to the Ministry of Education.
The Presidential Working Party on Education Reforms (PWPER) makes the suggestion in the draft report that it is necessary to harmonize the basic education sector’s quality assurance functions by ensuring that the ministry has sole legal control over the mandate.
The report recommends that the Ministry of Education take over the Teachers Service Commission’s (TSC) responsibilities for quality assurance and standards.
This indicates that in bold suggestions proposed by the taskforce, TSC authority may be curtailed while a corresponding funding is kept at the ministry.
“The Ministry of Education ought to take over TSC’s quality control and standards-setting duties. The draft report states that “this harmonization of QAS functions should be grounded in law.”
According to the report, the directorate for quality assurance and standards should be given legal authority to enforce ministry rules, regulations, policies, and deadlines.
The right to order the immediate closure of institutions that disobey established norms as well as the power to establish a system of incentives and sanctions are among the authorities that will be granted, according to the article.
The plan is viewed as a significant filler to the gaps seen in prior years where ministry officials oversaw student deaths and property damage to institutions due to a lack of jurisdiction.
According to the report, the decentralization of quality assurance workers to other directorates has made the problem of inadequate human resources worse.
It claims that this has kept the degree of quality assurance and standards systems in schools from improving.
It claims that early childhood development and education lacks methods for ensuring quality.
The report also claims that policies and rules controlling quality assurance and standards in educational institutions are not being implemented well because there is no commission for education standards or quality assurance.
Additionally, it turns out that the institutions have an insufficient number of Quality Assurance and Standards officials, conflicts among them, and overlaps in their responsibilities.
This has impacted service delivery in terms of educational materials, the learning environment, and school administration as well as the ability of personnel to build and sustain inclusive education standards requirements in learning institutions.