TSC to deploy secondary teachers to junior secondary schools in 2025.
Beginning the following year, the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) would send out thousands of secondary school teachers to help junior secondary schools (JSS) improve student learning.
Omboko Milemba, the national chairwoman of the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet), made this announcement during the Kuppet Annual Delegates Conference (ADC) in Vihiga.
According to Milemba, the union unsuccessfully attempted to stop TSC from sending secondary school instructors to junior secondary.
Following a widely shared circular outlining the TSC plan and conditions for instructors to be deployed to JSS, the Commission has previously denied such assertions. The circular was identified as fraudulent by TSC.
Nonetheless, according to sources, TSC is nearing completion on the deployment of more than 20,000 secondary school teachers to JSS by 2025.
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.
Additionally, TSC has hired 20,000 junior secondary school teachers for internships.
For a one-year contract, the hired teachers have been assigned to their workstation and will begin work in January.
To overcome the teacher deficit in Grade 9 classes next year, TSC has resorted to using extra teachers in secondary schools.
As the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) takes over, all secondary schools will stop offering Form 1 classes in January 2025, 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.
Additionally, TSC intends to assign a limited number of elementary school teachers to teach classes in grades 7, 8, and 9 the following year.
Given that the teacher-to-class ratio in junior secondary is currently 1:1, the Commission is under pressure to handle an impending teacher crisis;
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 Commission CEO Dr. Nancy Macharia, who testified before the Parliamentary Committee on Education, JSS has hired 48,550 teachers in the last two fiscal years.
Of these, 9,000 were hired on a permanent basis, while 39,550 are interns who are currently confirmed on PNP conditions.
Additionally, during the past two years, 8,378 primary school teachers have been sent to JSS, bringing the total number of JSS instructors to 56,928.
According to Macharia, the Commission has appointed 149,350 instructors to teach in Grades 7, 8, and 9.
According to her, TSC now employs 76,928 instructors in JSS, which is 51.5% of the entire number needed.
There is currently a 72,422 teacher shortfall in junior secondary schools.
TSC to deploy secondary teachers to junior secondary schools in 2025.
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