P1 Teachers Deployed To JSS To Get Salary Payments With Arrears

Primary School Teachers who were deployed to teach Junior Secondary school (JSS) will start to get their salaries with arrears after the national budget is read. Only a few teachers have received their salaries this month without their arrears.

After their documents were validated by their Sub County Directors and deployment letters were given out, the first cohorts, who applied by February 6th, 2023, were sent to junior secondary schools.

According to the deployment letters issued to graduate teachers, they will commence their service at job group C2, earning a gross salary of 58,335 shillings per month.

Teachers with degree certificates will be placed in job group C2 and will work in this position for a three-year term before being automatically promoted to job group C3.

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On the other hand, teachers with diplomas, classified as B5, will begin their service in job group C1. After three years of service, they will be elevated to job group C2 without requiring any additional steps.

To ensure proper deployment, TSC has instructed the Sub County Directors to assign teachers to their current stations or nearby locations. The Commission has stated that teachers with Special Needs Education (SNE) qualifications should be assigned to Special JSS.

“The County Directors shall begin publishing on the publishing, Entry/Exit Reports Module to the Sub-County as soon as the instructors are deployed to JSS. The instructors would be posted to JSS by the Sub-County Director, according to TSC CEO Nancy Macharia in the circular.

She instructed Heads of Institutions (HOI) to release the instructors to exit them as soon as possible by submitting Exit Reports so that the Head of Institution receiving them can submit the Entry Report.

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She stated that all of these procedures must be carried out online using the Posting, Entry/Exit Reports Module because the Commission no longer accepts or handles paper copy casualties.

“Where the teacher is retained in the same station, the Head of Institution shall exit the teacher from primary school and submit an Entry Report for the JSS,” stated Macharia.

However, information about how some instructors received junior secondary teaching approvals without the necessary paperwork has come to light.

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Details revealed that some instructors were deployed despite not meeting the TSC qualifications to teach in junior secondary. As a result, the Commission began physically reviewing the documents for the teachers who had been stationed at its Nairobi headquarters in Upper Hill.

The Commission verified the authenticity of the application-related documents to make sure they weren’t fakes. According to the Teachers Service Commission, TSC, anyone found guilty will face discipline in accordance with the teacher code of conduct.

Document verification at the corporate office typically takes two to three months. The second batch of PTE teachers in practice, whose applications were due on March 22, 2023, have not yet been deployed by TSC to junior secondary schools.

After receiving application lists from the Commission, TSC Sub County Directors will simultaneously verify documents and post them.

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