TSC to recruit 3,000 teachers to fill gaps left
Teachers’ Service Commission (TSC) has sought to replace retired, dead or sacked tutors in primary and secondary schools.
At least 3,000 teaching positions in the country are up for grabs the vacancies announced are for primary school teaching jobs 2,053, representing a 69.7 per cent of the slots available.
Another 892 positions 30.3 per cent are for those seeking secondary school teaching jobs.
The vacancies have already been advertised, and applications can be submitted to the TSC online portal; the successful applicants will report to their workstations by April 25, when the 2022 Term One will begin.
Candidates seeking primary teaching jobs will be interviewed at sub-county level, while those seeking employment in secondary schools will be interviewed at the institutions that they’d have applied to join.
Interested applicants are required to apply through the commissions websitewww.tsc.go.ke under ‘Careers’ or teachersonline.tsc.go.ke
According to the Commission, eligible candidates must: be Kenyan citizens, holders of a P1 certificate in the case of primary schools; and a minimum of a diploma in education in the case of secondary schools, registered as teachers with the TSC.
This comes after Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) Secretary-General Collins Oyuu to have more tutors employed.
Speaking to the press in Nairobi on Tuesday, Oyuu noted that primary schools need at least 84,000 teachers while secondary schools need at least 12,000.
“For the government to address the teacher-shortage, it should be employing 20,000 teachers annually against the 5,000 it’s currently hiring every year,” he said.
