The Teachers Service Commission, TSC, has employed and deployed over 80,000 teachers to teach at all the Junior Schools in the Country. This has been revealed by Basic Education Principal Secretary Dr Belio Kipsang.
While addressing the media on Monday, Belio noted that the Teacher’s Service Commission (TSC) has posted 46,000 teachers who were on internship and another cohort of 20,000 teachers.
“This morning I engaged with the chair of the Teachers Service Commission and they informed me that they have issued posting instructions to all the 20000 who were taken in for internship, 46, 000 who were converted to permanent and pensionable and the upgraded 10,000 teachers,” he said.
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The PS was however quick to note that there still was a big shortage of teachers at the Junior schools.
“As we talk now, we have more than 80,000 who can teach at our junior schools. However, we still have a shortage because we have not attained the number required.”
The Junior Schools will now have 3 classes in grade 7, 8 and 9.
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TSC to deploy more teachers to Junior Schools
The Commission will at the same time deploy about 6,000 current Primary School teachers to JSS this year as it seeks to address a shortage of 72,422 teachers.
According to sources from TSC, the online application portal for primary school teachers will soon be activated for them to apply for deployment.
This has also been confirmed by Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Migosi Ogamba.
“Qualified primary school teachers will be deployed to junior schools to progressively ensure that each school is adequately staffed”. CS Ogamba said in a statement.
TSC CEO Dr. Nancy Macharia recently revealed that the Commission requires a total of 149,350 teachers to handle Grade 7, 8 and 9.
Macharia said currently TSC has employed 76,928 teachers in junior secondary representing 51.5% of the requirement.
These are 39,550 junior secondary school teachers who were recruited on internship terms but have since been converted to permanent and pensionable terms.
8,378 P1 teachers who were deployed to junior secondary in last two year and 9,000 junior secondary school teachers recruited on permanent and pensionable terms.
Macharia noted that the government allocated sh 4.8 billion which TSC has used to recruit 20,000 JSS teachers on internship terms that starts in January.
The 20,000 intern teachers will undergo retooling in January.
TSC has so far retooled a total of 229,292 teachers on Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) and Competency Based Assessment (CBA) since April 2019.
The Commission is under pressure to address a looming teacher crisis in JSS in January as currently the teacher to class ratio is 1:1.
The Commission has been deploying P1 teachers since 2019 as a form of promotion after numerous complaints of stagnation from primary school teachers who upgraded their academic certificates.
