Male teachers constitute a majority with disciplinary cases that lead to deregistration, TSC
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TSC (Teachers Service Commission) says male teachers account for more than 90 percent of disciplinary cases that lead to deregistration
TSC (Teachers Service Commission) says male teachers account for more than 90 percent of disciplinary cases that lead to deregistration.
Men make up more than 90% of disciplinary cases that result in deregistration, according to information that the commission periodically releases on its website.
Only four women were among the 366 instructors who were removed off the rolls in 2017 overall.
The TSC disciplines tutors through the Code of Regulations for Teachers, 2015, and the Code of Conduct and Ethics, 2015.
The commission had received 1,007 discipline-related cases by the end of June. Since the role was decentralized, 867 of these have been heard and resolved, and 140 are still pending at regional offices.
Thirty-six male teachers were deregistered in March this year.
A total of 1,128 cases were heard and determined in 2021 and 2022, while the previous year recorded 703.
The data comes at a time the National Assembly Education Committee members raised concerns over the disciplinary procedures employed by the commission and complained that once dismissed, teachers cannot be rehired even if cleared of allegations by courts.
“The employer can utilize internal disciplinary processes regardless of what’s going on in the criminal justice system, especially for sexual offenses. This is professional misconduct,” said Cavin Anyuor, the TSC Legal, Labour and Industrial Relations chief. In July last year, all the 73 deregistered teachers were men as were the 71 struck off the roll in August 2019.
Twenty-four other male teachers had been deregistered in May of the same year.
Teachers deregistered recently include 40 males and one female in March 2020, thirty-one males in December 2020, forty-three men and one woman in September 2021, and 44 males and two females in October last year.
TSC CEO, Nancy Macharia, told lawmakers that investigations begin once a complaint is received.
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A committee reviews the complaint to determine if it warrants an interdiction. The hearing of the case comes last.
Teachers on interdiction receive half their pay, but not those embargoed for desertion.
Kenya Secondary School Heads Association Chairman, Kahi Indimuli, told the Sunday Nation that most cases of males being dismissed from the service involve sexual relations with learners and embezzlement of school funds.
“Allegations of carnal knowledge are serious. It’s very difficult for the principal to record the offence, evidence, report a teacher and act as a prosecutor. The disciplinary process is often in favour of the child,” Indimuli said.
Education stakeholders want disciplinary taken away from the TSC and handled by an independent agency.
They argue that the commission cannot be the employer and regulator of the profession.
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