Confirmation Of Intern Teachers To PnP Announced . This year, more than 25,000 junior and elementary school teachers hired on internship terms will have their employment verified by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC).
Ndindi Nyoro, the chairman of the budget and appropriations committee, made this revelation in parliament yesterday when the appropriations for the 2024–2025 budget were being presented.
The only people who will go from internship to permanent and pensionable terms (pnp) are those who renewed their internship contract.
The Commission will verify that it hired 20,000 student instructors in February 2023.
The PTE-certified instructors will begin in grade B5, and the graduate intern teachers will be assigned to job group C2.
The money to confirm the teachers was factored in the 2024 – 2025 budget. Also an allocation to employ another 20,000 intern teachers this year was captured.
Recently TSC Chief Executive Dr. Nancy Macharia had said that they will start recruitment of at least 20,000 new teachers to bridge staffing gaps in junior school.
Confirmation Of Intern Teachers To PnP Announced
TSC has admitted that junior secondary schools are grappling with severe teacher shortages.
Macharia said the schools require 99,045 teachers against the current number of 56,928.
“The government is continuously funding schools to progressively bridge the staffing gap. In the next financial year, TSC has requested funds to hire an additional 20,000 teachers to bridge the gap,” said Dr Macharia.
At the same time, TSC is deploying P1 teachers to junior school after it revealed that primary schools have a surplus of 18,194 teachers after the number of classes was reduced by two as the new curriculum rolled out.
The Commission has advertised 6,000 deployment slots for graduate P1 teachers to apply for promotion to junior school.
Serving primary school teachers with degree in secondary option with C+ in KCSE and C+ in two teaching subjects were asked to apply online by 18th March 2024.
TSC has in the past assured intern teachers that they will be converted to pnp in January 2025 after serving for two year internship contract.
President William Ruto had said that his government has changed the policy where internship will now take two years in all government agencies and departments.
Confirmation Of Intern Teachers To PnP Announced
Ruto assured junior school intern teachers of employment once they serve the two year contract.
“It is now a government practice for the intern teachers to work for two years before they are employed on permanent and pensionable terms,” Ruto said at State House.