Quite a number of teachers who employed by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) in September this year are yet to receive their posting letters.
Some of these teachers are frustrated as they watch their colleagues been posted to their new schools to start working under permanent and pensionable terms.
The commission employed a total of 14,460 teachers last month in a bid to address shortage of teachers in public primary and secondary schools and also replace retired tutors.
Even with this , recent details show that a good number of teachers have not yet received their posting letters despite TSC CEO Nancy Macharia saying the letters have been released.
While at the Kenya School of Government in Nairobi on Wednesday, October 5 during the World Teachers’ Day Celebrations, Macharia said TSC has posted all teachers recruited last month.
“The TSC has posted 14,460 new teachers who were recruited last month (September 2022) arising from the fresh recruitment, and replacement of teachers who left service through natural attrition,” said Macharia.
Going as per to the roadmap that guided the recruitment exercise, all successful recruits were supposed to be posted to schools in early September.
Then while filling of employment forms it was revealed that some teachers will be posted by the end of the year.
At the same time, some counties the employment forms had a date indicating when the teacher will be posted.
Some teachers employment forms indicated they will be posted in September others in October and November and the last group in December 2022.
Note also that it usually takes TSC three months to post a teacher to a school after he/she has filled the employment form.
Latest revealation show that the recruits are still receiving their posting letters despite the delays. A good number of them received theirs last week.
The worst has become of some teachers who had resigned from employment in private schools hoping that TSC will post them early but this has just put them in awkward position as TSC delays in releasing more letters.
Note that with primary school teachers their posting letters are found at the County Directors office while secondary school ones get them from secondary school Principals.
The primary school teachers are being posted in counties away from their home counties in a program called ‘delocalization’.
ROADMAP FOR RECRUITMENT OF TEACHERS – JULY, 2022
ACTIVITY TIME LINES DURATION
Presentation of proposal for the identified vacancies to the Board Monday 20th June, 2022 1 Day
Advertise Vacant Posts Tuesday 28th June, 2022 1 Day
Virtual Sensitization of Regional & County Directors Friday 1st July,2022 1 Day
Online Applications Tuesday 28th June 2022 – Thursday 7th July, 2022 10 Days
Collection of Employment Forms by County Directors Tuesday 5th July, 2022 1 Day
Generation of Applicants’ Lists by County Directors Validation of applicants at the HQs Friday 8th July, 2022 1 Day
Shortlisting of Applicants by the County Selection panel Compilation of the regional shortlist Monday 11th July 2022 – Tuesday 12th July 2022 3 Days
Publishing of the list of shortlisted candidates on the TSC website Wednesday 13th July, 2022 – Friday 15th July, 2022 3 Days
County Selection Process and Filling of Application for Employment Forms by Successful Candidates Thursday 21th July, 2022 – Wednesday 27th July, 2022 5 Days
Vetting and Handling of Complaints at County Level Thursday 28th July, 2022 – Wednesday 3rd August, 2022 3 Days
Receiving of Recruitment Documents at the TSC Headquarters Thursday 4th August, 2022 – Friday 5th August, 2022 2 Days
Compilation of Successful Applicants’ Lists and Processing of Appointment Letters Monday 8th August, 2022 – Friday 27th August, 2022 15 Days
Reporting of Teachers to Schools Thursday1st September, 2022
COUNTY DIRECTORS TO SUBMIT REPORTING STATUS BY 3RD OCTOBER, 2022
