Government has approved Sh.26B to confirm 25,000 TSC intern teachers
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) will begin certifying at least 26,000 Internship teachers on Permanent And Pensionable Terms by the end of this year.
This is after the government highlighted the Sh26 billion factored in the upcoming July budget to absorb teachers into permanent and pensionable terms on the payroll.
The Teaching Service Commission (TSC) got the lion’s share in the latest education budget to be approved.
TSC has been allocated Sh369.94 billion, part of the money it will use to reward and promote teachers.
The TSC will also confirm the 20,000 trainee teachers it recruited in February 2023 who are currently doing their second internship period, which ends this year.
Diploma trainees will be assigned to job group C2, as their PTE certified counterparts will enter grade B5.
A total of 46,000 teachers serving on internships are on the TSC payroll, but the commission will only confirm interns for permanent terms at the first position who have served two years on the internship.
Funding Teacher confirmation is now reflected in the 2024-25 budget.
This year, the commission will also spend part of the allocation on employing another 20,000 teachers from practice.
In a recent speech, TSC CEO Dr. Nancy Macharia announced that the commission will begin certifying at least 20,000 in-service teachers. The new recruitment will help bridge staffing gaps in lower schools.
The commission admitted through the head of the TSC that Junior secondary schools are facing a serious shortage of teachers and thus need to raise more.
Dr. Nancy Macharia further disclosed that schools need 99,045 teachers against the current number of 56,928 to address the shortage of teachers.
At the same time, the TSC has called on primary school teachers who have degrees to apply to junior secondary schools to address the current teacher shortage.
These P1 teachers will be deployed from the 2nd term of 2024.
