More than 300,000 teachers who applied for teaching jobs will from Thursday next week know their fate as the selection process and filling of employment forms starts.
The remaining 6,574 teachers will be hired to replace those who have exited the teaching service due to natural attrition.
The teachers who applied for the jobs will receive their letters of appointment from county directors between October 8 and 14.
This will give way to another five days of vetting the final lists and handling of complaints, which will also be done at the county level between October 15 and 22.
The schedule indicates that all the returns will be received at the commission’s head office between October 23 and 24.
The TSC also announced that it will promote 1,000 teachers.
TSC Chief Executive Officer Nancy Macharia yesterday told the Senate Education Committee that the newly recruited teachers will report to their respective schools by January 4 next year.
In response to a question by senators who wanted to understand the hiring criteria and whether the process will be fair to all qualified teachers, Ms Macharia said the commission has put in place mechanisms to attract, select, appoint and retain competent teachers to serve as institutional administrators.
She said primary school teachers in administrative jobs who fall under Job Group K (C2) will be able to rise to Job Group P, which is the present D1 under the new grading system adopted after a collective bargaining agreement.
Secondary school teachers in the administrative category will be able to rise from Job Group C5 (senior master) to D5 (chief principal).
Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers Secretary General Akelo Misori said they have petitioned TSC to re-instate the common cadre promotion grades.
Mr Misori said the fate of 3,000 diploma teachers who need to transit from Job Group C2 to C3 is in limbo.
On teacher recruitment, Macharia told the senators that the commission needs 103,481 teachers to plug a staff deficit.
The commission has consistently requested for increased budgetary provisions to employ 20,000 teachers annually, and this has not borne fruit,” she said.
Praying for the chance as p1.
At least after 8yr of waiting having passed well .credit 3 (18points).
Let my educational success have meaning.
What Will come of interns who will not secure jobs,will they be forced to go back to work on Bom terms
How comes there are text messages inviting people for interviews on 5th October? Is it genuine? Can one get more than one text from different counties for the same day and time? Kindly I would like to know as am in limbo
I pray for a chance as well I am a p1 teacher employed as a bom teacher in one of the primary school
oh I’m wondering the same too. One from sematime and the other from tsc. Anyone with a clue please assist. The texts were also written very differently
Yeah me too i have received a number of texts to attend the interview on 5th October
For sure let tsc think about the intern teachers because more than half will not secure pnp jobs, come January where will they go????
I pray for a chance as well I am a p1 teacher employed as a bom teacher in one of the primary school
1,Are the locals given more priority than outsiders from other counties?,please verify
2,will regional balance be considered?
I haven’t got any text so far.am desperately waiting.I also think those getting many invitations applied in more than one counties.they are hindering us who applied in one county to miss out.sad.come January I will still be at my private employer.
What of the deployment to secondary schools? For the degree holders in primary schools?
1,Are the locals given more priority than outsiders from other counties?,please verify
2,will regional balance be considered?