To address the acute tutor shortage in schools, the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has started a nationwide recruiting drive.
To fill the positions left vacant by teachers who left the service due to attrition, the commission has declared 5,000 new openings and an additional 8,230 positions.
3,972 of the hired teachers will be assigned to various secondary schools to help with the President Uhuru Kenyatta-initiated 100% transition program. 28 tutors will be assigned to teacher training colleges, while 1,000 teachers will be posted to primary schools. They will be hired on a permanent basis with pension benefits.
Affirmative action will be used during the recruitment drive to target schools in the counties of Mandera, Garissa, and Wajir.
One thousand teachers will be assigned to the North Eastern county. The committee led by Nancy Macharia said on Monday, June 27, that it planned to hire 764 primary school teachers and 80 secondary school instructors. The positions are long-term and pensionable.
In order to fill the openings in Garissa, Mandera, and Wajir, TSC additionally re-advertised 386 positions, with 114 for primary schools and 272 for secondary schools on contractual terms.
Part of the advertisement said that in order to be eligible for employment, an applicant had to be a Kenyan citizen, be from Garissa, Mandera, or Wajir Counties, and be employed as a teacher in one of those counties by the Board of Management.
How to Apply
The teachers’ service commission does not accept paper applications. All their applications are only submitted through their online portal.
According to the TSC portal, all sections must be filled with the required information as prompted.
The applicants are also expected to scan and attach only the required documents. Only original documents should be scanned and uploaded.
For expatriate teachers, they are expected to attach a letter of clearance from the Ministry of Education Vetting Committee.
“It is a serious offense to willfully give false information to the Teachers Service Commission. The law provides that any person convicted of the offense may be fined up to Ksh 100,000 or imprisoned for Twelve (12) months or both according to Section 44 of TSC Act No. 20 of 2012,” TSC states.
