TSC’s plan to send 25,000 high school teachers to JSS.
By January 2025, more than 20,000 secondary school teachers will have been assigned to junior secondary schools (JSS) by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC).
TSC CEO Dr. Nancy Macharia directed that secondary school teachers hired after 2015 be immediately registered in order to enable their deployment to JSS. The memo was sent to secondary school principals, regional, county, and sub-county directors.
By Friday, October 18, 2024, all secondary school principals must provide the TSC Sub County Directors offices with the names of the instructors who were employed in their stations in 2016.
This came to light when the Commission decided not to proceed with hiring the 20,000 teachers it had intended to hire this year because of a lack of funding.
Twenty thousand teachers were to be hired by TSC for internships, with 18,000 going to JSS and 2,000 to primary schools.
The goal of the 18,000 JSS intern instructors was to enhance learning at JSS, particularly starting in January when Grade 9 classes will be held there.
But because government organizations are struggling financially, the Commission has postponed hiring the teachers until next year.
In order to address the teacher shortfall in Grade 9 classes next year, TSC has now resorted to using excess teachers in secondary schools.
As the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) takes over, all secondary schools will stop offering Form 1 classes in January 2025, leaving thousands of secondary school instructors idle.
The teachers are to be assigned to junior secondary schools close to their current work stations, per the Commission’s directive. Additionally, the deployment will be subject-based.
TSC has also ordered that 450 intern teachers from secondary schools who were hired in April 2023 be sent to junior secondary schools upon their confirmation of permanent and pensionable positions.
The deadline for principals to submit teacher names to the TSC Sub County Directors offices was October 11, 2024.
TSC’s initial aim to send 25,000 primary school teachers to JSS is made more difficult by its most recent action.
To educate in JSS, the Commission intended to assign P1 instructors who had earned diplomas and degrees.
For the fiscal year 2024–2025, TSC stated that the deployments will be carried out in stages, with the first scheduled for September, the second for January, and the last for June.
Only a small number of PTE teachers will be transferred to teach grades 7, 8, and 9 classes next year as a result of the widespread deployment of secondary school teachers to JSS.
TSC’s plan to send 25,000 high school teachers to JSS.
