TSC turns to P1 teachers to address teacher crisis in Grade 9

The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has now turned to primary school teachers in addressing the mess in junior schools.

TSC plans to promote at least twenty thousand P1 teachers to serve at junior schools ahead of grade nine class next year.

The Commission will, on September this year, deploy PTE teachers with Diploma and Degree certificates to cover staffing gaps in grades 7, 8 and 9.

TSC has generated lists from its database per county containing names of P1 teachers with various Diploma and Degree certificates for deployment to grade nine.

TSC is currently in the process of collecting additional data for the teachers from Heads of Institutions (HOI’s) before documents verification and subsequent posting at the sub county level.

In an excel template TSC want primary school heads to provide the teachers KCSE mean grade, specialization e.g. BED ARTS,BED Primary option , BED SCIENCE, BED ECDE, BED SNE, Dip in education, Dip SNE, Dip ECDE as well as two teaching subjects with mean grade for those with secondary option.

Listed for deployment are also senior, deputy and headteachers. Currently TSC is facing staffing crisis in junior schools.

A plan to recruit 18,000 junior school intern teachers was disbanded after the Finance Bill 2024 was annulled by President William Ruto.

This means TSC will not have recruitment this year except replacements following the budget cuts by the Treasury.

There are serious teacher shortage in grade seven and eight and the cornered TSC has no option but to turn to P1 teachers to address the looming crisis.

TSC has lowered the requirements to teach in junior school with teachers possessing diploma and degree in primary option, ECDE and SNE included for deployment.

Previously teachers were required to have degree in secondary option with C+ in KCSE as well as C+ in the two teaching subjects for deployment to junior school.

Below is a memo that was released by TSC to guide the process of data collection for teachers listed for deployment.

INTERNAL MEMO

TOREGIONAL DIRECTORS COUNTY DIRECTORS

REFTSC/DTPM/CDS/40/VOL.ll/115

4th July 2024

REQUEST FOR DATA ON SERVING PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS WITH BACHELOR’S AND DIPLOMA DEGREES

The Directorate is conducting an assessment to determine the number of primary school teachers currently serving with the requisite Bachelor’s and Diploma degrees.

Please provide the data in terms of numbers, segregated by County and categorized into the following groups: –

l) Holders of the required Bachelors and Diploma certificates with a minimum mean grade of C+ at KCSE and a minimum of C+ in each of the two teaching subjects [or equivalent).

Holders of the required Bachelor’s and Diploma certificates with a minimum mean grade of C+ at KCSE and a minimum of C plain in each of the two teaching subjects (or equivalent).

Holders of required Bachelor’s and Diploma degrees with a minimum mean grade of C plain at KCSE and a minimum of C+ in each of the two teaching subjects (or equivalent).

Holders of the required Bachelor’s and Diploma degrees with a minimum mean grade of C plain at KCSE and a minimum of C plain in each of the two teaching subjects (or its equivalent).

Holders of the required Bachelor’s and Diploma degrees with a minimum mean grade of C- (minus) and below with two teaching subjects without regard to the grades in the teaching subjects.

Other categories (if any, specify)

Kindly submit the data as shown in the attached format:

The purpose of this memo is to request for submission of the data on or before 11^th July, 2024.

DR. MUGWUKU NTHAMBURI F. AFTRA
DIRECTOR (TEACHER PROFESSIONAL MANAGEMENT)