TSC urged to allocate teachers to counties as per need
TSC urged to allocate teachers to counties as per need during the current recruitment process
TSC urged to allocate teachers to counties as per need during the current recruitment process.
Igembe North MP Julius Taitumu has urged TSC (Teachers Service Commission) to proportionately distribute the employment slots for primary teachers in the current hiring drive in order to prevent favoring counties with more schools and students.
As the population and services needed varied throughout the 47 counties, he claimed it was unjust to distribute the 1,000 and 4,000 instructors to be hired on permanent terms and internships, respectively, in an equitable manner.
Speaking in Laare town, Mr. Taitumu pointed out that each county would receive roughly 21 permanent teachers, which he claimed would be unjust to largely populated counties.
The MP, who is also the Nyambene Knut executive secretary, called for pro-rata-based recruitment so as to ensure each region was allocated based on their individual need.
“What I think is fair is to do pro-rata-based recruitment, not on land size. Equal distribution will disadvantage some consumers of the services offered by the teachers.
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He clarified that the bulk of the 35,550 teachers being recruited by TSC would be dispatched to the secondary school sector, 9,000 of them on a permanent and 21,550 others as interns.
“Teachers are already emotionally charged that 35,000 of them are being employed. This year’s employment is tailored to junior secondary school. We are transiting from the 8-4-4 system and we have the first class of junior secondary and each class should have a teacher. That is why over 30,000 teachers are being employed in the secondary sector and very few in the primary sector,” he said.
The legislator at the same time revealed that parliament was pushing TSC to prioritize the employment of teachers based on the year they graduated as opposed to the marks they scored.
The Education and Research committee noted that those who scored a pass qualified to be teachers but could lose out on employment if those with superior grades were prioritized.
“If you look at the marks, some will be left out because one can graduate today and get first class honours yet another graduated five years ago and got a pass. If you got a pass, you qualify to be a teacher but currently, it means that this person will wait for a longer time,” said Mr. Taitumu.
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