TSC New Registration, Entry And Qualifications Requirements For All Teachers

The only body mandated to alter the minimum entry requirement for all teachers wishing to be employed by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) is gearing up for major reforms in the education sector.

These reforms in teachers’ minimum grades for teaching subjects’ areas of specialization will usher in a new era for professionalism and excellence in the teaching professions.

Currently, all teachers teaching in secondary schools teach only two subjects apart from English teachers who only teach only one. According to the latest Teacher Service Commission (TSC)recommendations, all teachers are expected to be teaching three Subjects.

In reference to Teacher Service Commission (TSC) document, the document outlines that the minimum entry requirements for a teacher intending to join the teaching service, that’s the teacher in secondary schools will have to teach three subjects in Junior secondary and Senior secondary level.

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) skill will be the additional compulsory additional requirement for all teachers before entering the teaching world.

Form four leavers of 2021 who will be hoping to pursue teaching course in higher institutions will be required to have a minimum mean grade in KCSE of C+ (plus) and have a minimum of a B- (minus) in all the three teaching subjects unlike initially where the minimum requirement in teaching subject was a C+ (plus).

The study Period, which was initiated for four years, will be reduced up to three years for all the teachers. The teachers undertaking Bachelor of Science or Arts will have to study for three years and go for a Post Graduate Diploma in Education (PGDE)for a further one year to acquire skills in teachers Education.

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If in any case there are students who underwent a training for both Diploma and Degree for teaching course without having the above-mentioned requirements, No one among them will be registered or get employment by the Teacher Service Commission.

TSC has proposed that in the review of these new requirements, all training institutions should only admit learners who will be wishing to undertake the teaching course in line with the teacher service commission requirements this coming September 2021.

These proposals are clearly outlined in policy documented by TSC title, Framework for Entry in the Teaching Service.

Students intending to train as teachers will have to first undertake Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of science courses for a period of three years majoring in the key subjects and thereafter undertake the postgraduate Diploma in Education for a period of one year for teaching at junior and Senior school.

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