Junior secondary school (JSS) and primary school intern teachers have started to trickle down to schools after they were issued with posting letters.
Today a good number of them were admitted by primary headteachers who are also acting junior secondary school Principals.
Those who reported had their online causalities filled and submitted to the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to ensure prompt payment of salaries.
TSC is on the spot after it delayed paying salaries of the intern teachers posted in January. Many teachers had gone for months without getting their stipend amid rumours of a broke government.
Things have however stablised and TSC is expected to pay the recent posted intern teachers on time.
In July the commission invited applications from qualified candidates to fill 20,000 teacher internship posts.
The agency said 18,000 intern teachers will be posted to junior secondary schools while the remaining 2,000 will be deployed to primary schools to support the implementation of the new curricula.
The online applications ran for two weeks till 18th July when it closed.
The JSS intern teachers will be required to teach various learning areas under the curriculum and will be entitled to a monthly stipend of Sh20,000. Those who will teach in primary school will earn Sh15,000.
However the teachers will also face a number of deductions including sh 360 NSSF deduction, 1.5% House levy and NHIF.
The teachers will serve for a one year contract period which is renewable for another one year before being converted to permanent and pensionable terms.
TSC CEO Dr. Nancy Macharia said the commission targets to employ at least 25,000 teachers per year for the next five years whenever funds are available.
The fate of the current serving intern teachers who were posted in January is still unknown. This is after TSC was not allocated funds in the July budget to confirm them in January 2024.
DISTRIBUTION OF 18,000 JUNIOR SECONDARY INTERNSHIP POSTS BY COUNTY
1 Baringo 574
2 Bomet 553
3 Bungoma 454
4 Busia 261
5 Elgeyo Marakwet 375
6 Embu 354
7 Garissa 159
8 Homa Bay 386
9 Isiolo 78
10 Kajiado 381
11 Kakamega 479
12 Kericho 485
13 Kiambu 533
14 Kilifi 512
15 Kirinyaga 271
16 Kisii 691
17 Kisumu 249
18 Kitui 758
19 Kwale 398
20 Laikipia 244
21 Lamu 89
22 Machakos 655
23 Makueni 552
24 Mandera 229
25 Marsabit 150
26 Meru 468
27 Migori 389
28 Mombasa 128
29 Muranga 635
30 Nairobi 424
31 Nakuru 698
32 Nandi 580
33 Narok 618
34 Nyamira 403
35 Nyandarua 324
36 Nyeri 415
37 Samburu 133
38 Siaya 420
39 Taita Taveta 188
40 Tana River 156
41 Tharaka Nithi 314
42 Trans Nzoia 325
43 Turkana 260
44 Uasin Gishu 362
45 Vihiga 254
46 Wajir 205
47 West Pokot 431
TOTAL 18000
DISTRIBUTION OF 2,000 PRIMARY SCHOOL INTERNSHIP POSTS BY COUNTY
S/No./County/Total Allocation
1 Baringo 42
2 Bomet 42
3 Bungoma 42
4 Busia 42
5 Elgeyo Marakwet 42
6 Embu 42
7 Garissa 45
8 Homa Bay 44
9 Isiolo 42
10 Kajiado 42
11 Kakamega 44
12 Kericho 42
13 Kiambu 42
14 Kilifi 44
15 Kirinyaga 42
16 Kisii 42
17 Kisumu 45
18 Kitui 44
19 Kwale 42
20 Laikipia 42
21 Lamu 42
22 Machakos 42
23 Makueni 42
24 Mandera 45
25 Marsabit 42
26 Meru 42
27 Migori 42
28 Mombasa 42
29 Murang’A 42
30 Nairobi 42
31 Nakuru 42
32 Nandi 42
33 Narok 42
34 Nyamira 42
35 Nyandarua 42
36 Nyeri 42
37 Samburu 44
38 Siaya 42
39 Taita Taveta 42
40 Tana River 42
41 Tharaka Nithi 42
42 Trans Nzoia 42
43 Turkana 44
44 Uasin Gishu 42
45 Vihiga 42
46 Wajir 45
47 West Pokot 44
TOTAL 2000