TSC urgently needs a total of 25,839 teachers to address staffing shortage in senior school ahead of Grade 10 roll out next year.
Making the revelation in Parliament TSC CEO Dr. Nancy Macharia painted a gloomy picture facing the first CBC cohorts.
Macharia said the current teacher shortage in junior and senior secondary schools stands at 98,261.
She was speaking on 8th April when she appeared before the National Assembly Constitutional Implementation Oversight Committee to answer questions on teacher recruitment, promotions, and deployment across the country
Macharia said the Commission requires a total of 72,422 teachers to address the teacher shortage in JSS.
In total TSC needs 149,350 teachers to effectively implement the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) in Grades 7, 8 and 9.
However the Commission was allocated additional budget for 36,000 teacher recruitment this year.
Of these 18,000 will be employed on permanent and pensionable terms and the other 18,000 on internship terms.
These teachers will specifically be hired to address the staffing gaps in junior and senior schools.
Macharia said currently TSC has employed 76,928 teachers in junior secondary representing 51.5% of the requirement.
These are 39,550 junior secondary school teachers who were first recruited on internship terms but have since been confirmed to permanent terms in January 2025.
8,378 P1 teachers who were deployed to JSS in 2023 and 2024 and 9,000 JSS teachers recruited on permanent and pensionable terms.
TSC also recruited a total of 20,000 JSS teachers in January on a one year internship term after it was allocated sh 4.8 billion.
TSC has so far retooled a total of 229,292 teachers on Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) and Competency Based Assessment (CBA) since April 2019.
A total of 60,642 JSS teachers have been retooled from May 2023 to November 2024.
The Commission is under pressure to address a looming teacher crisis in JSS as currently the teacher to class ratio is 1:1;
The Commission is also planning to retool a total of 7,000 secondary school Principals in preparation for Grade 10 rollout.
What is Nancy Macharia planning with the Teachers who went for Upgrading or they are not competent enough to teach the junior Schools …… I thought that those who went for Upgrading were going to be given upper hand during employment yet nothing has been done and they aren’t talking about them at all…..Only 5 marks why take teachers for retooling and yet there are people qualified in that particular area….. Ama hiyo upgrading ilikuwa Story za Jaba or maybe you wanted us to fill the empty spaces in the TTCs we would like to know the way forward if the certificates are useful or Useless