Teachers employer, Teachers Service Commission (TSC) is still determined not to lower their grades for teachers who are seeking to join teaching fraternity to teach in primary and secondary schools despite mounting pressure from relevant stakeholders. are.
As per requirements and guidelines under Teaching Profession by TSC, the minimum requirements for a person to teach in secondary school to be trained as teachers is to have a minimum KCSE average grade of C+ and at least C+ in two teaching subjects Needed.
This serves a big blow for p1 (elementary school teachers) who haven’t obtained a KCSE or a C+ (plus) mean in two teaching subjects, but to get a degree in a bid to be considered Have already enrolled for your further studies. To teach in secondary schools.
TSC has also said that teachers who intend to teach in primary school will be allowed to teach only those subjects who scored C Plain in their KCSE exam.
This was stated in an address to head teachers in Mombasa in which TSC Deputy Director of Staffing Antonia Lentoijni stated that although the qualifications were not these new requirements popular with teachers, they are meant to improve the quality of education.
It is now clear that this decision turns off teachers who have scored a C- or a C and who have a degree to teach in secondary school.
However, Collins Oyuu, general secretary of the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT), says that teachers in primary school should be allowed to teach grades 7 and 8 in junior secondary school as many of them have no intention of getting promoted to secondary Master’s degree. School.
