In a recent advertisement, The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) declared that it will give priority to P1 teachers who undertook, Competency-Based Teacher Education (CBTE).
According to an advert TSC released this week for recruitment of teachers, the Commission says the teachers will have an upper hand during the upcoming recruitment interviews.
Teachers with Upgrade Diploma in Primary Teacher Education (CBC) will have an added advantage,” TSC said in the advert.
In the advert, TSC has listed 9,000 teaching posts on Permanent and Pensionable Terms of Service for Secondary School Teachers to be posted to Junior Secondary Schools.
1,000 posts on Permanent and Pensionable terms of service for Primary School Teachers. 21,550 posts for Teacher Interns in Junior Secondary Schools and 4,000 posts for Teacher Interns in Primary Schools.
The recruitment of teachers is through the TSC online recruitment portal and will end on 16th December 2022. The Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) already released results for the first cohorts of P1 Diploma Upgraders this month.
The results were sent to various Teacher Training Colleges (TTCs). Results show many students failed the KNEC assessments which they did from 15th July to 20th July 2022.
In Kericho TTC a total of 644 students did exams for the upgrading of Primary Teacher Education (PTE) to Diploma Primary Teacher Education (DPTE).
In the results sent to the college 360 students got Credit, 10 got Pass, 20 got CRNM (Course Requirement Not Met) and 253 got Referrals. 1 candidate had his exams canceled.
In Meru TTC 384 students did the upgrading. 265 got Credit, 25 got Pass, 80 got Referred and 14 got CRNM. In Egoji TTC out of 294 students 184 got Credit, 5 got Pass, 100 got Referred and 5 got CRNM.
In Shanzu TTC 237 students got Credit, 19 had Pass, 69 got Referrals and 4 got CRNM. The trainee teachers also did their Practicum which took the whole of the last school term. The trainees had their external assessments courtesy of KNEC which ran up to 4th November.
A task force had recommended both P1 and ECDE teachers undergo the mandatory training to be at par with the demand of the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC). The training of the first cohorts started in October of last year.
The second cohort started in September this year. According to a circular dated 6th October 2022 sent to TTC Principals, only eight TTCs are to be used to train the teachers this year due to the low enrolment.
Due to the low number of P1 teachers who applied for upgrading the Ministry of Education, Principal Secretary ordered the placement of students to be merged into eight colleges.
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