TSC To Post P1 Teachers To JSS After Budget
This year, the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) will move more teachers from primary schools to junior secondary schools.
TSC hasn’t sent these second groups of practising PTE teachers to junior secondary schools yet because they don’t have enough money. The deadline for their applications was March 22, 2023.
The Commission is asking for sh 2.2 billion in the budget that will be given to Parliament on Thursday of next week. This money will be used to promote these teachers and about 14,000 tutors who have been stuck in the same job group for years.
After their papers were checked by their Sub County Directors, the first groups of teachers who applied by February 6, 2023, have already been sent to teach Grade 7 students.
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Letters of sending (deployment) were sent to the teachers, which said they would start at job group C2.
In a letter from February 17, 2023, TSC said that qualified primary school teachers had asked to be sent to Junior Secondary Schools 10,833 times.
But only about 7,400 of them passed the test and were sent to the junior secondary school area.
Dr. Nancy Macharia, the CEO of TSC, gave clear instructions to Sub County Directors and Primary Headteachers on how to send and receive teachers so that they could get paid faster.
TSC To Post P1 Teachers To JSS After Budget
“As soon as the teachers are sent to JSS, the County Directors shall start posting on the Posting, Entry/Exit Reports Module to the Sub-County. “The teachers will be sent to JSS by the Sub-County Director,” TSC CEO Nancy Macharia wrote in the memo.
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She told the Heads of Institution (HOI) who let the teachers go to send in Exit Reports right away so that the Heads of Institution who got the teachers could send in Entry Reports.
She said that all of these things must be done online through the Posting, Entry/Exit Reports Module because the Commission no longer accepts hard copies of deaths or processes them.
“If the teacher stays in the same station, the Head of Institution must remove the teacher from primary school and send an Entry Report to the JSS,” Macharia said.
Most teachers have already started getting their pay this June. But TSC hasn’t given out the back pay yet, which should happen this month.
Most teachers who are sent abroad are in job group C1, which is for elementary school teachers. Those in job group B5 are next.
Pay for a C2 teacher who is deployed:
Base pay of Sh34,955
Allowance for housing (in other places) Sh7,500
Hardship Sh10,900
Commuter Sh5,000
Leave (Only paid in January) Sh6,000
Those who are sent overseas (and have a degree) will be put in job group C2, where they will work for three years before being immediately moved to job group C3.
Those with diplomas, on the other hand, will start in job group C1, where they will stay for three years. After that, they will be immediately moved up to job group C2.
The Commission told the Sub County Directors to make sure the teachers are sent to their current stations or stations close to their current stations.
TSC said that teachers who have a degree in SNE should be sent to Special JSS.
Teachers in elementary schools who want to work in JSS must be trained to teach in high schools. The teacher MUST be able to do the following:
i) Be registered as a teacher with the Teachers Service Commission and keep that registration up to date.
ii) Works for the Teachers Service Commission as a first-grade teacher.
iii) Should not be receiving a ban or going through a disciplinary process at the moment.
iv) Have at least a Diploma in Education with at least a C+ at KCSE (or its equivalent) and a C+ in two teaching subjects that are currently being taught in schools (8-4-4 or CBC) or two (2) principles and one (1) subsidiary pass at “A” Level.
Those who have a KCSE grade of at least C (plain) or its equivalent and both a Diploma in Education and a Bachelor’s Degree in Education are eligible.
v) The degree must say Bachelor of Education on the certificate. People who have a Bachelor of Education (Primary Option) are not qualified.
vi) They must have said they wanted to be sent to a junior high school and their name must be on a list shared by headquarters.
During the verification practise, candidates will need to show the following documents:
i) The original degree or diploma award and a copy of it;
ii) The original and copies of the student’s academic records;
iii) The original and a copy of the SNE qualification, if needed;
iv) The original and a copy of the KCSE or equivalent certificate;
v) A copy of your most recent paycheck;
vi) A statement from the Head of Institution that the teacher is still working at the school and isn’t on probation or going through a punishment process.
