The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) will start recruitment of primary and secondary school intern teachers in January 2023.
This was revealed by the President Dr. William Ruto who said the intern teachers will be part of 30,000 teachers whose employment will start in January next year.
The President who spoke on Wednesday 12th October after he officially opened the Komarock South Primary School funded by the Embakasi Central NG-CDF said his government will fulfill the employment promise he made to teachers.
“We have agreed with TSC that from January they will have recruited 30,000 more teachers. Some will be employed on permanent terms while some will be interns so that we progressively bridge the teacher gap,” said Ruto.
Upon recruitment the teachers will be posted within their Sub Counties under new TSC recruitment and deployment policies.
Dr. Ruto noted that this will mark the first phase of absorbing more than 116,000 teachers to bridge the existing gap in schools. The plight of unemployed teachers was a key campaign issue for Kenya Kwanza.
There are at least 350,000 teachers who are yet to be absorbed into TSC payroll. Some are however working in private schools.
TSC recruits at least 6,000 teachers each year on internship. Primary untern teachers are paid 15,000 and those in secondary schools earn 20,000 per month.
During the last recruitment in July this year, more than 356,000 jobless teachers applied for the 14,460 vacancies that had been advertised by the TSC.
Post-primary teaching vacancies attracted the highest number of applicants, with 219,311 teachers expressing interest in the 4,000 declared vacancies.
Of the 1,000 new vacancies advertised for primary school teachers, the commission received 136,833 applications.
On Tuesday 8, November a team from TSC led by its CEO Dr. Nancy Macharia and another from MOE led by its Principal Secretary (PS) Belio Kipsang visited the DP at his office for talks on matters education.
The meeting came after TSC said talks regarding the employment of teachers have began and that it will give a way forward on how the recruitment exercise will be done.
TSC CEO Dr Nancy Macharia who spoke during the celebrations to mark World Teachers Day at the Kenya School of Government in Nairobi said teachers should expect good things going forward.
“Consultations are ongoing with the Presidency on teacher recruitment and we shall be giving updates of the progress as we go along. Be assured that the Kenyan teacher can only expect good things going forward. We shall be telling you how to go on with this recruitment as per the Kenya Kwanza Charter,” said Macharia.
Last October TSC met with TSC Regional and County Directors to work out on success of the teacher recruitment.
After meeting with TSC this week the Deputy President said that the Kenya Kwanza government will focus in addressing teachers and students matters.
“The well-being of students and teachers is a key focus for the Kenya Kwanza Government. Today, We discussed matters Education including teachers’ recruitment,” said Gachagua.
Also last month the DP had a meeting with Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) over teacher recruitment issue.
The DP agreed with KRA that more taxes will be collected to help in teacher recruitment exercise.
“We had a meeting with Kenya Revenue Authority and asked them to ensure they raise at least sh 3 trillion this financial year to enable us recruit more teachers and finance other government programmes,” said Gachagua.
In the education charter signed with stakeholders in the education sector in June, President William Ruto committed to “ensure that the current teacher shortage of 116,000 is fully bridged within two financial years by employing 58,000 teachers at a cost of Sh25 billion per year”
What about upgrading for teachers who have stagnated in one grade in which they started the job like me here even after studying hard and attaining a higher grade .I am now facing retirement on the same grade its quite painful on my side .I wonder what I did wrong to TSC.
What of the ecde teachers who make a strong foundation for our children?
Upgrading should be stopped with immediate effect ,let people get employed then upgrade on their on .some people trained p1 with fee difficulties where do they get money for Upgrading????? Am 43yrs having stayed for 12 yes outside do you expect me to upgrade ???really tsc open your 👀 👁
What of teachers who have already upgraded?will they be considered since they have spent alot of money in upgrading?
I’m hopeful to receive my share of the borne this time round 🙏