Ministry of Education Initiates Recruitment of Teachers for Special Needs Education Course
The Ministry of Education has declared the initiation of recruitment for current teachers for a two-year full-time Special Needs Education (SNE) Diploma course at the Kenya Institute of Special Education (KISE) commencing in 2025.
This program is aimed at existing Teachers Service Commission (TSC) personnel who intend to specialize in educating learners with disabilities.
In an official statement, the ministry urged qualified teachers to submit applications for the in-service course, with specializations offered in various domains such as visual, physical, and hearing impairments; intellectual disabilities; autism; and deafblind education.
Teachers interested in this intake have been instructed to procure the application forms from the ministry’s website or visit their county and sub-county education offices.
“All serving TSC teachers who wish to be considered for admission to KISE for the two-year full-time SNE Diploma in-service course are hereby informed that application forms are now accessible and may either be downloaded from the Ministry of Education website or obtained from the nearest CDEs/SCDEs’ offices,” the statement from Education PS Julius Bitok partially read.
Furthermore, upon completion of the application forms, the county education offices will be required to forward them to the ministry’s headquarters located in Nairobi.
“Duly completed application forms must be submitted personally by the applicant to the SCDE by May 9, 2025. All applications shall be forwarded by the office of the SCDE to Jogoo House B, Room 710,618/19, no later than May 16, 2025. ”
Applicants must be citizens of Kenya, under the age of 50, possess a P1 certificate, and have a minimum of five years of service as TSC teachers.
Bitok highlighted that the registration procedure will incur no charges for the teachers.
Each applicant will be mandated to present their application in person and furnish original and certified copies of academic and professional documents, a national ID or passport, a recent passport photograph, and any other pertinent testimonials.
The PS specified that applicants with visual impairments are exempt from the obligation to handwrite their application forms.
Successful candidates will receive SMS notifications containing information on how to access their admission letters.