Absorption Of Intern Teachers To PnP . The Teachers Service Commission has made clear it’s intention to confirm intern teachers into permanent and pensionable terms. The teachers in reference are those who got employed early this year. The teachers were deployed to junior secondary schools in the country.
Government’s Agenda On Education
The above move is part of the government’s agenda of reducing the student teacher ratio gap. The government has so far employed more than 56000 teachers this calendar year alone. The government has also laid down plans to employ 35,550 teachers in the coming year. This is set to happen in the month of January 2024.
The above stated information regarding teacher employment is according to the latest memo. The memo comes from the commission’s acting director of staffing Joseph Mugele. Interviews will be done as from January and the exact dates shall be communicated in due course.
Information from TSC Director of staffing
The director of staffing has requested the human resource director not to expunge the intern teachers from the payroll once their contracts end in December. He put more emphasis on these 2022 intern teachers. He emphasized that the teachers should remain on payroll until they are employed on permanent and pensionable terms by the commission.
However, he did not state exactly on when the teachers shall be confirmed into permanent terms. He, however on the other hand hinted that confirmation into permanent and pensionable terms will be done before the next financial year that begins in June 2024. Therefore, all the first cohort intern teachers will be confirmed into permanent and pensionable terms before June 2024.
The recruitment of 35,550 teachers set to take place next year is part of the larger government plan to employ more than 116,000 teachers , as stated by the president earlier. Previously, the commission CEO had stated that the country was facing a shortage of 114, 581 teachers.
The teachers to be employed will be distributed across , from primary, junior and senior secondary. However, junior secondary will receive a lion’s share of the teachers as that’s where there is a huge deficit.
Absorption Of Intern Teachers To PnP