TSC Will Not Employ Teachers With Degrees In The Following Subjects

The Teachers Service Commission, TSC, seeks to employ 14,460 teachers, the highest number in recent times as it grapples with fixing the acute shortage of tutors in public primary and secondary schools.

Employing, compensating, and promoting qualified teachers across the country are the responsibilities of the Teachers Service Commission (TSC).

TSC has declared 5,000 teaching vacancies to support the government policy on 100 percent transition of learners from primary to secondary schools and to address the existing teacher shortage.

TSC also advertised 8,230 vacancies to replace teachers exiting service through natural attrition. Of the advertised vacancies 6,539 posts for primary schools and 1,691 posts for secondary schools.

According to TSC, 3,972 of the recruited teachers will be posted to different secondary schools to assist in the 100 percent transition policy which was initiated by President Uhuru Kenyatta. 1,000 teachers will be posted to primary institutions while teacher training colleges will get 28 tutors.

The majority of these educators will work in primary schools to fill the gap left by teachers who were transferred to secondary institutions.

TSC has lined up 844 permanent positions for schools in the north. Through affirmative action, the jobs are earmarked for teachers from the region.

This is a re-advertisement after the commission failed to get enough teachers in a previous recruitment drive. Primary schools will get 764 teachers while 80 will be posted to secondary institutions.

Applicants whose training is in subjects that are currently not in the Secondary School Curriculum do not qualify, irrespective of their having undertaken a Post Graduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) and/or enhancement.

This category includes but is not limited to Bachelor of Science /Bachelor of Arts in; Natural Resources – Fisheries, Meteorology – Anthropology, Forestry – Sociology, Animal Husbandry, Theology / Divinity, Horticulture – Journalism, Farm Machinery – Biotechnology, etc.

Applicants with Economics/Commerce/Accounting can apply for Business Studies. Diploma Teachers with English/other subjects qualify for employment as teachers of English/Literature on the condition that they have adequate units in both Language and Literature.

All applicants must have studied the two teaching subjects at KCSE except for Agriculture, Business Studies, Home Science, and Computer Studies.

For those who did not study Business Studies and Computer Studies, one should have attained a minimum of C+ (Plus) in Mathematics at KCSE. For those who did not study Agriculture and Home Science, one should have attained a minimum of C+ in Biology at KCSE.

Graduate Teachers should have studied a minimum of eight (8) course units in each teaching subject. In addition, the teachers must have studied Special Methods in their two teaching subjects of choice together with a minimum of three (3) months of teaching practice.

Applicants previously employed under contract and whose services were terminated due to inadequate units in teaching subjects and have since obtained enhancement certificates with adequate units are eligible to apply.

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