Parliament starts process of changing teachers’ recruitment procedure
Parliament starts process of auditing teachers' recruitment process spearheaded by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC)
Parliament starts process of auditing teachers’ recruitment process spearheaded by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC).
The National Assembly Committee on Education has disclosed plans to carry out an audit of the Teachers Service Commission’s (TSC) recruitment procedures.
Julius Melly, the committee’s chair, stated that the committee’s goal will be to highlight shortcomings in the selection procedure in an effort to enhance future hiring.
Melly said that in light of prior claims of corruption and fraud in the hiring process, the committee wanted to ensure that upcoming exercises were free and fair.
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The chairman went on to say that his committee would speak with a variety of stakeholders in order to acquire information that would help to streamline the procedure.
“We believe that this is a process and there is always room for improvement on how the process can be done better next time,” he told the Nation.
On Wednesday, January 11, Melly revealed plans by the Kenya Kwanza Administration to eliminate compartmentalisation in Kenya’s education system.
Melly stated that his committee was pushing for a departure from the system where teachers were only eligible for employment to teach levels of education, to one where teachers have the competencies required to teach at any grade within Kenya’s education system.
He added that the government was looking to address the deficit in the number of teachers required to roll out the Competence-Based Curriculum (CBC) by making the school system seamless.
“We want to destroy the education system of compartmentalization and come up with a system where teachers can run across the school system e.g. a grade 7 or 8 teacher who can teach up to grade 12,” he stated.
If actualised, the government aims to conduct capacity building for the teachers as a way to ensure that teachers have their competencies updated to match contemporary requirements.
The move would see teachers trained to work in secondary schools work in junior secondary schools in the new curriculum.
Melly noted that the new system would also help to save costs that would be incurred in subsequent recruitments of teachers that would be required to implement the changes in Kenya’s education system.
“If they are in secondary school and you bring them to come and train as tutors for grade one to grade six it will not take long, it is actually honing the skills of existing graduates,” he stated.
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