Comprehensive TSC’s Plan To Recruit Over 20000 Teachers. The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) is embarking on a comprehensive and wide-ranging initiative aimed at recruiting an additional 20,000 teachers. This is to address the persistent and widespread challenge of staffing shortages in junior secondary schools nationwide.
This strategic and forward-thinking decision arises from collaborative and constructive discussions. They are between the TSC and the Kenya Union of Post-primary Education Teachers (KUPPET). It is underlining the critical and urgent need to fortify and augment the teaching workforce across various educational institutions throughout the country.
This pressing and imperative necessity was thoroughly and extensively deliberated upon during an intensive and exhaustive six-day conference convened at Sawela Lodge in Naivasha. Representatives from both TSC and KUPPET engaged in rigorous, thorough, and insightful discussions on the prevailing and pertinent issues within the education sector. Specific focus on addressing the persistent and pervasive issue of understaffing in junior secondary schools was aired out.
Milema Omboko, the distinguished and esteemed National Chairman of KUPPET, underscored and emphasized the urgent and immediate nature of expanding and strengthening the teaching cadre. He estimated and projected a significant and substantial financial commitment of Sh 4 billion for the comprehensive and extensive recruitment drive aimed at hiring the anticipated 20,000 teachers.
Additionally, Akelo Misori, the esteemed and respected Secretary General of KUPPET, revealed and disclosed that a specific and designated segment of the newly appointed teachers, amounting and totaling to 2,000 individuals, will be strategically and purposefully assigned and deployed to serve in the marginalized and underserved Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASAL) regions. This thereby will effectively and efficiently address and mitigate the geographical imbalances and disparities in staffing distribution and allocation.
Comprehensive TSC’s Plan To Recruit Over 20000 Teachers
In a momentous and groundbreaking development, the TSC has made a firm and resolute commitment to absorb and integrate all 26,000 junior secondary school interns appointed and enlisted in 2023 into permanent positions with full pension benefits and entitlements.
With the commencement and initiation of these benefits slated and scheduled to start from January 2025, symbolizing and signaling a substantial and significant long-term investment and commitment in the development, welfare, and sustainability of the teaching workforce.