The government is planning to deploy P1 Teachers who qualify to teach in secondary schools to all secondary schools which have vacancies.
The government began Implementing the move recently as P1 Teachers Start Getting Deployment Letters. Beginning 2019, 1,000 p1 teachers were deployed every year to teach in secondary schools to date.
Within the final three years, 3,000 P1 graduate teachers who were certified have been promoted to teach in secondary colleges.
Nevertheless, the government has not made the deployment slots public through advertisements with the P1 Teachers who qualify to teach in secondary schools ready for an official advertisement in order for them to apply.
TSC Advertised 1,000 deployment slots in 2019 and 2020 and advertised the same slots in the final 12 months.
The government held talks with the primary academics’ unions lately for two days.
Within the assembly, the Kenya Nationwide Union of Teachers (KNUT) Secretary General Collins Oyuu, pushed the government to permit college graduate teachers who acquired increased educational {qualifications} by way of in-service coaching to teach in junior secondary schools.
KNUT urged the government to permit Teachers who have a certificate in secondary education however with (C (Plain) within the Kenya Certificates of Secondary Schooling (KCSE) to teach in secondary schools.
Moreover, the union additionally desires the government to acknowledge Main Instructor Schooling (PTE) academics who’ve a Diploma in Secondary Option throughout the deployment training.
The talks bore fruit with TSC agreeing to deploy p1 teachers to teach within the Junior Secondary Schools (JSS).
In line with the government , for teachers to teach in junior secondary they have to meet the following qualifications
~Be a Kenyan citizen
~Should be a holder of not less than a diploma in schooling
~Should be a registered trainer with the Lecturers Service Fee
