The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) will recruit new school heads to replace those on contract.
According to TSC CEO Dr Nancy Macharia the Commission will stop employment of retired Headteachers and Principals on contract.
The Commission had employed the school heads for a two year to a three year contract after their retirement.
This caused an uproar from teachers who wondered why the Commission took that route when there are many teachers ready to take up the leadership mantle.
Speaking during the official release of 2021 KCSE results at Mitihani house in Nairobi, Macharia said the school heads will be released to allow fresh recruitment to take cause.
The Commission is currently grappling with mass exit of school heads who have reached their retirement age.
Two years ago Kuppet secretary general Akelo Misori revealed that at least 25,000 teachers are set to retire by end of 2022.
Misori said most of these teachers are school administrators and especially school heads.
“Our finding is that as of November 2020, the teaching service had 25,000 teachers aged 58 and above…meaning Kenya is facing a deep teacher shortage that calls for radical measures to address,” said Kuppet secretary general Akello Misori.
According to Nancy Macharia the Commission teacher shortage currently stands at 114,581.
TSC requires at least 36,000 new teachers for effective implementation of junior secondary school.
Macharia announced that they will train secondary school teachers starting this week to prepare for junior secondary school.
A total of 60,000 teachers are targeted in this training which will include public, private and special need education teachers.
Macharia said the Commission targets to train a total of 116,024 teachers this year in preparation for January grade 7 classes.
She said by January 2023 there will be no gap in implementation of the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) because all secondary school teachers will have been trained.
At the same time Macharia noted that the Commission received sh 1.2 billion for recruiting 6,000 intern teachers this year and another sh 2.5 billion for recruiting 5,000 others on permanent terms.
According to TSC any teacher having attained the age of 50 years, may apply to the commission in writing expressing their intention to retire.
The teacher need to have served for at least 10 years in addition to being at least 50 years old.
However in line with government policy, all public servants upon attainment of 60 years, are subject to compulsory retirement.
Persons Living with Disabilities are retired at the age of 65 years in line with the Persons With Disabilities Act, 2003.
Upon retirement teachers are paid pension on a monthly basis.
Below are documents which teachers must present for immediate processing of their pension claims.
Documents required by TSC for processing a teachers pension
Retiring teachers need to avail the following to TSC documents:
1. Duly filled TSC clearance certificate.
2. Two copies of bank plate both sides.
3. Two copies of national ID card both sides.
4. Duly completed option to commute pension form in duplicate.
5. Duly completed lump sum payment form (bank form).
6. Two copies each of all promotion letters/certificates.
7. The earliest copy of pay slip showing Women’s and Children’s Pensions Scheme (WCPS) deductions for male teachers.
8. Copies of marriage certificates/ affidavits to confirm names for married teachers whose documents have different names.
9. Teachers who served as Untrained Teachers to attach NSSF statement.
10. Two copies of KRA PIN certificate.
I retired in June 2020 and have not been paid my dues. What would be the problem. Tsc 270699. Any quick response.
Thanks
This move is loooooong overdue. Teachers have stagnated in job groups below administration ones for more than 10 years awaiting promotion! Again if anyone is to be retained let it be the classroom teacher. They teach many more lessons than admins (some of them don’t even teach anyway)…….but then again when one reaches 60 let them go home and continue leading there if it’s leadership they want!!! The amount required to keep a retired teacher in the system is much more than a newly employed teacher……or what logic is employed when extending their term? Kindly someone educate me. Some of these people are frustrated for some reason and that’s why they choose to continue staying at work so that they can flex their muscles with their junior teachers as their ‘weights’. Eventually they leave demotivated teachers who’ll then be blamed for the low mean scores.
Bottom line, let them go home!!!!
I was promoted to a deputy headteacher in march 2021 but my.salary has not been updated upto now
All this is a scheme introduced to delay funds meant for that exercise. How come those teachers who retired in 2020 are yet to be paid their dues? Where is their money?
Our education system has become corrupt like many other sectors in our country. A good example is how the CBC was hastly introduced without the ministry having properly prepared for it. Many children especially in public schools can’t do well because of luck to the required infrastructure in the classrooms. Back to teachers retirement required documents, it’s like there’s no record of theirs in the relevant ministry. It’s supposed to be automatically done without asking such many docs like marriage certificate…..and so forth. In normal circumstances, it’s the employer who keeps records for their employees, and upon retirement age they prepare them for retirement and pay them their dues without hustle. Teachers are supposed to be treated well indeed. Without them
no knowledge is passed to our children, community and remember knowledge is power. The gvnt should invest more in proper education. Thanks
This is the best way of allowing teachers earn a decent living after retirement, unlike when teachers stayed for ages leading miserable lives and even some passed before they got their pensions Congratulations Tsc.
I severely wonder how can a teacher Act in the capacity of headship for a year or several years and called for an interview but neither served with a regret letter or a successful one BUT instead made to work under a newly promoted head.
I am a victim. Acted as a HT for 3 years and then a HT was posted. I ran the school so well but here I am, waiting for headship interview. Isn’t 3yrs acting enough to qualify one to be a head without being subjected to interview???
It was not wise to retain the school head teachers after retirement. This culture of recycling workers is making our youth miss opportunities hence indulge in dubious means of securing livelihoods
On retirement teachers should be treated with dignity i.e started getting their dues as soon as they retire. Being one of them, am even scared to come to tsc cause it gives you a heart break as you will meet teachers from the remote marginalized areas who have finished more than 3 years without their dues and still won’t get the help needed. Just as Kibaki era, the dues should be paid within the first 3 months after retirement. We go through alot of agony in the profession then get more financial ttoucher. We also work to the last day while secretariat staff enjoy the 6 months leave pending retirement. We need to be treated with fareness
My dad retired last year July and since then he has received no token/dues. He has severally wrote letters& emails to tsc but to no avail.,,,,,as a trained teacher awaiting employment by tsc i fear to fall in the same category of those retirees whose dues have not been met,please tsc be transparent and stop this mistreatment of retirees
It is honourable for teachers to go home, when one attains the compulsory retirement age of 60 years. His dues or her dues should be paid immediately, within a brackets of three months. Why delay?