Teachers Service Commission has announced plans for a massive recruitment of 5,000 teachers across the country fill up vacancies in public schools. TSC placed through an advertisement published in MyGov on Tuesday , said the recruitment will support a 100% transition from primary to secondary. Successful candidates will be hired on permanent and pensionable terms of service. The teachers employer has instructed interested candidates to submit their applications online through the commission’s website by September 14, 2020. TSC aims to hire 4,000 secondary school teachers who must be Kenyans with citizen at least a diploma in education, and registered teacher with the Teachers Service Commission.
The commission has plans to promote and deploy 1,000 public primary teachers and interested candidates must be Kenyan citizens, a holder of a PI certificate, and must be a registered teacher with the Teachers Service Commission.
Other qualifications for primary positions include a bachelor’s degree in education with two teaching subjects.
Candidates must also have attained at least C+ (Plus) mean grade at Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) or equivalent and C+ (Plus) or it’s equivalent in the two teaching subjects and must be serving under the Teachers Service Commission.
The announcement comes amid pressure, piling on the Education CS Prof. George Magoha to reopen schools.
Schools were shut down in mid march after the outbreak of covid-19 pandemic but the country is currently recording low numbers of new infections.