TSC reveals a 72,422 teacher shortage in junior secondary schools.
In order to solve the teacher deficit in junior secondary schools (JSS), the instructors Service Commission (TSC) mandates that 72,422 instructors be hired.
TSC CEO Dr. Nancy Macharia disclosed this, stating that the Commission needs 149,350 teachers in total to teach Grades 7, 8, and 9.
According to Macharia, TSC now employs 76,928 junior secondary teachers, which is 51.5% of the total number needed.
All 39,550 of these junior secondary school teachers were hired for internships.
9,000 junior secondary school teachers were hired on a permanent and pensionable basis, while 8,378 P1 instructors were assigned to junior secondary schools.
According to Macharia, money has already been allocated by the government to transition 39,550 JSS intern teachers to PNP terms in January.
According to her, TSC has employed the Sh 4.8 billion the government has allotted to hire 20,000 JSS teachers for internships.
She said that in order to solve the acute shortfall, the Commission gave priority to hiring scientific teachers during the hiring process.
According to Macharia, since April 2019, TSC has retooled 229,292 teachers on Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) and Competency Based Assessment (CBA).
She stated that between May 2023 and November 2024, 60,642 JSS instructors received retooling.
Given that the teacher-to-class ratio in JSS is currently 1:1, the Commission is under pressure to address an impending teacher crisis in January;
To help with this issue, TSC intends to send more PTE teachers to JSS the next year.
Since 2019, in response to multiple complaints of stagnation from primary school teachers who upgraded their academic qualifications, the Commission has started using P1 instructors as a promotion.
A total of 1,000 P1 teachers were assigned to secondary schools annually in 2019–2020 and 2021, while about 8,378 instructors were assigned to work with the first cohorts of the CBC in JSS in 2022–2024.
According to sources, TSC would only permit primary school teachers to be deployed to JSS if they have a minimum KCSE mean grade of C+ and a minimum C+ in two teaching topics.
Next year, the Commission also intends to send extra secondary school instructors to JSS.
Following the Commission’s distribution of a document outlining the procedure, high school instructors registered for deployment.
TSC CEO Dr. Nancy Macharia directed that secondary school teachers hired after 2015 be immediately registered in order to enable their deployment to JSS. The memo was sent to secondary school principals, regional, county, and sub-county directors.
By Friday, October 18, 2024, all secondary school principals were expected to provide the TSC Sub County Directors offices with the identities of the instructors who had been hired at their stations since 2016.
Since January 2025, when CBC takes over, all secondary schools will not have Form One classes, leaving thousands of secondary school instructors idle.
The teachers are to be assigned to junior secondary schools close to their current work stations, per the Commission’s directive.
The deployment will be predicated on subject clusters, which are combinations of subjects.
TSC reveals a 72,422 teacher shortage in junior secondary schools.
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