TSC Releases tough guidelines for hiring 35,000 tutors
TSC Releases New Tough Guidelines For Hiring 35000 Tutors. At the time when the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) hires this month, all those teachers who have been jobless the longest will be given preference, and those who are now working as secondary school interns will be automatically hired to teach junior high.
The teachers’ employer announced on Wednesday that those who became certified as teachers in 2010 or earlier and have not yet been employed by the commission will receive an automatic score of 60%, while those who graduated this year or last year will receive a score of 5% under the category of “length of stay since becoming certified.” This is for both primary and post-primary teachers, this is applicable.
Following the guidelines, the recruitment of teachers released by the TSC that will be used as the commission hires 35,000 teachers this month.
The teachers’ academic qualifications will also play a big role in the scoring. For graduate teachers, a first class honours degree will earn the applicant 35 per cent of the marks, a second class 30 per cent and a pass 25 per cent.Those with diploma holders, a distinction will score 30 per cent, a credit 25 per cent and a pass 20 per cent.
An applicants’ communication ability is weighted at five per cent.
The application window will close tomorrow after which the TSC will develop the merit lists for the selection to start. As from tomorrow, the TSC regional and county directors will be taken through a ‘virtual sensitisation’ of the recruitment, including the guidelines.
TSC Releases New Tough Guidelines For Hiring 35000 Tutors
Yesterday, TSC also released schedule of activities during the recruitment period. After the closure of the application window, the commission will embark on the generation of applicants’ lists, shortlisting by the sub-county selection panel and invitation for interviews. The activities will be completed on Friday next week.
TSC merit lists shall be used in the current recruitment of teachers and any subsequent recruitment process within the financial year,” reads the guidelines.
It is Only five applicants will be shortlisted per advertised post.
TSC lists of shortlisted candidates will be submitted to TSC headquarters by the regional directors on December 27.
“merit list of shortlisted applicants by subject combination shall immediately be submitted to the TSC county director who shall verify the lists, to compile and submit the lists to TSC regional director who shall in turn verify, to compile and submit the lists to the headquarters for publishing on the TSC website,” part of guidelines read. It shall be on December 30.
The recruitment process on the country will take place for eight days beginning on Tuesday, January 3, 2023, and ending on Thursday, January 12.
All successful applicants will be vetted at the county level, where complaints will also be handled up to January 20.
In this period, hired teachers will sign internship agreements, to offer of internship letters and those on permanent terms will sign offer of employment letters.
These are all expected to report to school on January 23 when schools open.
The teachers’ employer has also explained that applicants who have training in subjects that are currently not in the secondary school curriculum will not be eligible for recruitment, even if they have a post-graduate diploma in education.
Part of the areas of degrees that do not merit include Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts in Natural Resources, Horticulture, Fisheries, Meteorology, Farm Machinery, Anthropology, Forestry, Sociology, Biotechnology, Animal Husbandry, Journalism, Theology and Divinity.
TSC employment has been hit by fears that politicians might interfere with it, forcing the commission CEO Nancy Macharia to declare that they have no role in the process.
TSC Releases tough guidelines for hiring 35,000 tutors
