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Some 9,000 newly employed teachers have a reason to smile after the Teachers Service Commission, TSC, introduced a computerized system of capturing their reporting details at their schools.

It means the reporting details – referred to as casualty reports – will be relayed directly to the TSC headquarters for fast processing of salaries and other processes.The move will see the salaries being processed in the first month as opposed to previous years when they have had to wait for as long as three months.

The new teachers, recruited in July and August will report to schools beginning September 1, 2021.

In a circular, TSC Secretary Nancy Macharia said the teachers will report under new online reform measures currently being implemented by the Commission, which allows them to receive their salaries at the end of the first month.

“In enhancing its transformation agenda set out in the 2019/2023 Strategic Plan, the Commission has successfully developed the entry/exit report module and migrated its services related to posting, transfer and deployment of teachers as well as filling entry and exit returns to an online system,” said Dr Macharia in a circular to all education field officers dated August 24.

She directed that there will no longer be manual filing of entry and exit reports commonly known as ‘Casualty returns’ for teachers once the new online module is fully implemented on October 1.

Principals usually write the ‘casualty returns’ whenever new teachers report to schools, data which is subsequently sent to TSC and used to pay teachers or undertake other processes.

TSC has already sent a circular to all field officers spelling out implementation of the new online module on posting, entry and exit of teachers.

Dr Macharia said the move is intended to eventually phase out all the manual processes pertaining to issuing, submission and processing of posting, transfer, deployment letters and related returns with the ultimate goal of enhancing service delivery to teachers and stakeholders.

“The module will be accessed on the TSC website where the user guidelines have also been provided.The Commission’s field staff and Heads of institutions are directed to acquaint themselves with the module in readiness for roll out on October 1,” Macharia said.In June,

TSC advertised for 8,914 teaching vacancies out of whom 3, 897 will be posted to primary schools and 4,927 for secondary.For secondary schools, the additional number of teachers is towards addressing the 100 per cent transition from primary school.