IT IS UNFAIR FOR TEACHERS SERVICE COMMISSION TO HIRE 10,000 TEACHERS ONLY

Pupils end up becoming their own teachers at an early age.

The Teachers Service Commission has plans to hire 10,000 teachers in a bid to end the shortage of teachers in the country. For the 10,000 recruits, 5,000 are to fill new positions while 5,339 are to replace teachers who left the service due to death or retirement. For P1 teachers that will be recruited should be those who graduated 2002 and 2008 for secondary teachers.

Kenyans should be expecting a different scenario from what they saw in the just concluded police recruitment that has since been canceled in some places. The recruitment exercise should be free and fair. Speaking to the press, the commission’s secretary Mr. Gabriel Lengoibon said, “All TSC directors are expected to return a clean and comprehensive list of successful candidates.”

For P1 candidates with distinctions and credits will be shortlisted. The worry is where will the candidates with a pass go if they will not be considered and are 10,000 teachers enough to end teachers’ crisis in the country? Kenya has a big number of trained teachers who have no employment while many schools go without enough teachers. To mend this gap, many schools resort to employ secondary school leavers. It is common sense to ask, why doesn’t our “digital” government employ sufficient number of teachers to improve the standards of education in the country?