TSC Plan To Hire 75,000 Teachers And 36,000 Interns

The Teachers Service Commission, TSC, is in the process of recruiting 75,000 teachers by 2025 to help ease the curriculum burden in both primary and secondary schools as well as plug existing staff shortages.

TSC also plans to hire 36,000 intern teachers for the primary and secondary schools over the same period.

According to TSC, its bold strategy seeks to enhance resource management. Professional development, equity, and access to equality teaching standards over the three years.

TSC is planning to employ 39,000 teachers in secondary schools between 2022 and 2025 if the National Treasury makes available requisite resources as is in the document

It reveals that TSC has established 13 measurable action points that aim to steer successful delivery of its crucial programs including effective staffing of schools. According to the reports, the commission has received approximately 15 billion shillings additional budget in the 2022-2023 financial year.

Ukur Yatani, the Treasury Secretary had allocated an additional 14.9 billion shillings to the TSC whose budget has risen to 296.6 billion shillings from 281.7 billion shillings in the new financial year. The Commission says it will use the funds to employ more teachers to ease the curriculum burden for teachers.

According to the report, which was represented to the Committee on Education and Research of the National Assembly by the Parliamentary Budget Office, it shows that TSC has planned to use its increased allocation of 15 billion shillings to employ 13,000 secondary school teachers

In addition, TSC is also planning to employ 9,000 interns to cope with exists and the expected increases in enrollment when the junior secondary is rolled out in January 2023. The Commission plea of 2.5 billion shillings for employing 5,000 teachers was also approved by the parliament.

Staffing has been an ending milestone around TSC’s neck with TSC CEO Nancy Macharia revealing that the service has a deficit of 114,581 teachers across the training colleges, special needs education, curriculum support, and primary and secondary schools.

She also attributed the situation to insufficient funding and implementation of the 100 percent transition policy of learners from primary to secondary schools

TSC CEO Nancy Macharia said that due to budget constraints, the government is employing 5,000 teachers every year which is a drop in the ocean. She added that this has put pressure on the existing teaching force which is not commensurate to learners’ enrolment.

Currently, Kakamega and Bungoma counties have the highest teacher shortage in the country.

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