The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) will post the recently newly recruited teachers to their new schools from next month upto the month of January next year.
Sources from the Commission indicate that the posting letters for teachers recruited under replacement are ready and have started to be dispatched to various TSC sub county offices.
All teachers recruited as replacement will be posted to their new stations in September. However teachers recruited under ‘additional’ category may wait longer as the Commission plans to post some of them upto January 2023.
According to TSC recruitment roadmap successful teachers are to be posted to their new stations of work early September this year.
However the employment forms filled by successful TSC recruits indicate that some teachers will have to wait upto January next year.
ROADMAP FOR RECRUITMENT OF TEACHERS – JULY, 2022
| ACTIVITY | TIME LINES | DURATION |
| Presentation of proposal for the identified vacancies to the Board | Monday 20th June, 2022 | 1 Day |
| Advertise Vacant Posts | Tuesday 28th June, 2022 | 1 Day |
| Virtual Sensitization of Regional & County Directors | Friday 1st July,2022 | 1 Day |
| Online Applications | Tuesday 28th June 2022 – Thursday 7th July, 2022 | 10 Days |
| Collection of Employment Forms by County Directors | Tuesday 5th July, 2022 | 1 Day |
| Generation of Applicants’ Lists by County Directors Validation of applicants at the HQs | Friday 8th July, 2022 | 1 Day |
| Shortlisting of Applicants by the County Selection panel Compilation of the regional shortlist | Monday 11th July 2022 – Tuesday 12th July 2022 | 3 Days |
| Publishing of the list of shortlisted candidates on the TSC website | Wednesday 13th July, 2022 – Friday 15th July, 2022 | 3 Days |
| County Selection Process and Filling of Application for Employment Forms by Successful Candidates | Thursday 21th July, 2022 – Wednesday 27th July, 2022 | 5 Days |
| Vetting and Handling of Complaints at County Level | Thursday 28th July, 2022 – Wednesday 3rd August, 2022 | 3 Days |
| Receiving of Recruitment Documents at the TSC Headquarters | Thursday 4th August, 2022 – Friday 5th August, 2022 | 2 Days |
| Compilation of Successful Applicants’ Lists and Processing of Appointment Letters | Monday 8th August, 2022 – Friday 27th August, 2022 | 15 Days |
| Reporting of Teachers to Schools | Thursday1st September, 2022 | |
| COUNTY DIRECTORS TO SUBMIT REPORTING STATUS BY 3RD OCTOBER, 2022 |
According to tradition TSC takes at least three months (from date of filling employment forms) for verification of documents at the Headquarters before posting teachers to their new schools.
However it will take shorter time this round due to acute shortage of teachers in primary and secondary schools.
The new recruits will have their employment letters soon before being posted to their new station of work where they will have their casualty filled online to enable the Commission to put them on payroll.
The unemployment crisis in the country is such huge with over 356,000 jobless teachers putting in applications for the 14,000 jobs advertised by the TSC last month.
For each of the advertised positions, only the top five candidates were shortlisted, in a departure from the past when long merit lists would be developed.
Post-primary teaching vacancies attracted the highest number of applicants with 219,311 teachers expressing interest in the 4,000 new vacancies available.
Out of the advertised 1,000 new vacancies for primary school teachers, the commission received 136,833 applications.
TSC also advertised 8,230 vacancies to replace teachers who quit the service through natural attrition.
The vacancies are both in primary schools (6,539) and post-primary institutions (1,691) attracted 327,882 applications.