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North Eastern schools to get more tutors as teachers recruitment exercise is set to kick off
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Amina Mohamed. Cabinet Secretary for Education. ( Courtesy)
NAIROBI–Government schools in marginalised counties more so the North Eastern ones will benefit from the on going Teachers service Commissions 8,762 recruitment of new teachers to both Public primary and Secondary schools countrywide. The commission will be posting over 17 teachers to each county.
The 2018 teachers recruitment exercise document states that Garissa will be receiving 104 teachers, Mandera 118 teachers while Wajir will get 30 teachers. One thousand teachers are expected to fill primary positions and 7,672 will be filling the secondary schools vacant.
Nancy Macharia, the Teachers Service Commission chief executive said the high recruitment of the secondary school teachers is due to the increased students enrolment occasioned by the governments free day secondary school education.
”Free day secondary school has resulted to more student enrolment resulting to need for more teachers,” Macharia said.
Central, Nairobi, Rift Valley and Western will get more teachers compared to distribution in other regions.
Macharia said the areas to get more teachers have more registered students. The TSC recruitment drive prioritised teachers who had waited close to 10 years since their graduation to be posted.
The TSC data shows 40,972 secondary school teachers and 63,849 primary teachers are needed.Shem Ndolo, The Kenya Primary School Heads Association said skewed teacher distribution hurts education.
School boards of management mitigate the problem by contracting teachers. “It is a problem that has forced schools to completely depend on teachers hired by the board,” Ndolo said.
Teachers Service Commission placement statistics show many young schools have inadequate staffing, forcing administrators to hire teachers through the school boards.
In March, Knut secretary general Wilson Sossion said effective management of insecurity in Northeastern holds the key to the unending cycle of mass teacher transfers.
”teachers have been asking for transfers since 2015 due to insecurity,” Sossion said.
