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TSC SECRETARIAT VACANCIES 2021-2022

The Teacher Service Commission, TSC, has announced 21 internship opportunities in various specialization.

In line with the Government internship policy ,the commission intends to offer internship opportunities to qualified youths in various areas of specialization to enable them gain practical work experience which will improve their competencies and competitiveness in career progression.

The opportunities have been distributed as follows;

1.Information Communication Technology (ICT)  -6 vacancies.

2.Records Management -6 vacancies

3.Human Resource Management/Development-6 vacancies

4.Finance and Account-2 vacancies

5.Legal -1 Vacancies

Basic requirements 

1.Information Communication Technology 

Bachelors in Computer Science, Information Communications Technology, and Computer Technology, Software Development, Information Security and Forensic and other Recognized Bachelors of Science ICT Courses.

2.Records Management 

Bachelor’s degree in Information Science/Records and Archives Management/Library Science, Knowledge of Electronics Documents and Records Management Systems (EDRMS)

3.Human Resource Management and Development 

Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resource Management or Bachelor’s Degree in social Sciences plus a Diploma in Human Resource Management.

4.Finance and Account 

Bachelors of Commerce

Bachelors of Business Administration

Bachelors of Arts Economics

5.Legal

Bachelor’s Degree in Law (LLB)

Completed the Post Graduate Diploma in Law from the Kenya School of Law.

Ability to undertake research and provide legal opinions

Fluent in written and spoken English and Kiswahili.

2. Be a Kenyan youth aged between 21 and 35 years.

3.Must have completed their training and graduated in the last 3 years from a recognized institution.

4.Must have a certificate of proficiency in ICT

5.Should have a Credit Bureau Certification (CRB)

6.Should not have done internship in any other organization.

7. Should have a Certificate of Good Conduct during selection.

Personal Attributes 

1.Must be a person of integrity

2.Must be goal oriented, dynamic, self driven and diligent individual

3.Should possess good interpersonal, communication skills and be a team player.

The Internship positions will be for  a period of 12 months

The positions are non-renumerative position, however, the selected interns will be paid a stipend of twenty-five thousand (Kshs.25000)per month.

Successful applicants may be deployed either to the TSC Headquarters or County offices

Method of  Application 

Applications should be submitted online through TSC recruitment portal website www.tsc.go.ke.

Candidates who meet the above requirements should submit their applications by Monday 22nd November, 2021. 

Successful candidates shall be required to have a personal accident insurance to cover for personal risks during the internship period. They will also be required to have medical Insurance cover by the NHIF or any other reputable medical insurance firm.

TSC virtual lessons for schools

The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has rolled out a new programme to mitigate against under-staffing in schools. The ambitious programme dubbed ‘Virtual Lessons For Schools’ will largely benefit schools in remote areas. The Commission says it has trained over 163,000 tutors to roll out virtual lessons that would be scaled up to cover most schools.

The new programme will see teachers from well-staffed schools with better facilities virtually share their classes with other institutions.

TSC Chief Executive Nancy Macharia said the prolonged disruption of learning due to the Covid-19 pandemic brought to the fore the need to continuously empower teachers to respond to emerging trends and challenges.  During Covid 19, most schools were unable to access online lessons due to inadequate facilities and poor internet connectivity.

Macharia said the commission has now accelerated its online teaching and learning, citing the Secondary Education Quality Improvement Project that has already been launched.

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The programme will be piloted ahead of full roll-out.

Under the pilot programme targeting 12 schools, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and English will be live streamed from the host schools.

During the two-month pilot phase, livestreaming will focus on sciences, mathematics and English lessons, delivered from two principal schools.

Alliance Girls High School and Machakos Boys, well-staffed institutions with better facilities, will have their teachers share lessons with students in satellite schools across 10 counties.

The two national schools have been paired with the satellite schools drawn from Isiolo, Kilifi, Bomet, Taita Taveta, Makueni and Kisii.

Macharia said the lessons will be interactive and collaborative through video and sound and learners will have a whole learning experience.

The programme targets Form Two students. Kenya Secondary School Heads Association chairman Kahi Indimuli termed the project a game changer. “It provides an opportunity to share knowledge, equipment and apparatus. It is a shared opportunity in learning and teaching approaches,” said Indimuli.

He, however, said schools will require high speed internet connectivity. But even as TSC launched the online lessons programme, teachers unions maintained quality teaching also requires proper staffing.

“Counties are not the same. Schools are not the same. We have gaps. Technology cannot replace teachers,” said Knut boss Collins Oyuu.

TSC had indicated there exists a teacher deficit of about 100,000 countrywide.

This new plan will however be hampered by lack of enough ICT facilities and internet connectivity in most schools.

Teachers to be subjected to mandatory retraining- TSC orders

The Teachers Service Commission, TSC, wants all secondary school teachers to undergo mandatory refresher training courses. According to the Commission learning areas introduced under the new Education system have made it mandatory for all teachers to go back to school to gain skills on how to handle the subject adjustments as the secondary schools prepare for a double intake in 2023.

In a letter to Basic Education Principal Secretary Dr Julius Jwan, TSC Boss Dr Nancy Macharia says there are some new subjects which require teachers to be trained and hired.

Those requiring special attention include pre-technical and pre-vocational education, life skills, agriculture and health education.

Others are optional subjects such as indigenous languages, Kenya sign language, visual arts and performing arts.

According to Dr Macharia, all home science and biology teachers will have to be retrained to enable them handle health education, while teachers in social studies must be taught how to teach new content on citizenship.

Similarly, sports and physical education teachers must be retrained so as to deal with sports and health requirements in the new Competency Based Curriculum, CBC.

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The commission wants a total re-engineering of the whole and current teacher education curriculum so as to meet the special demands of CBC.

“We advise and recommend that the teacher education curriculum should be made flexible and aligned to enable a single teacher to teach a variety of subjects,” she says in the July 26 letter, 2021.

Currently, teachers are trained to teach at least two subjects but the demands of the CBC now make it necessary to widen the teaching areas.

Some of the subjects introduced under the new system and that have no teachers include leatherwork, wood technology, hairdressing and beauty therapy, plumbing and ceramics and welding fabrication.

Others are mandarin, sports teachers, performing arts and visual and applied arts.

Dr Macharia says teachers in various subjects that have been adjusted or adopted new learning areas will be retrained across the country.

They include those for business studies, mathematics, physical sciences, English and literature, Kiswahili, sign language, Arabic, French, German, Agriculture, History, CRE, and building construction. Others are Islamic Religious Education, Hindu Religious Education, home economics, aviation, electricity and metal technology.

The commission recommends that sufficient funds be made available “for the retooling and training of teachers for the effective implementation of junior and senior secondary curriculum.”

TSC also recommends that the three diploma colleges – Kagumo, Kibabii and Lugari—be ordered to admit students for the new subjects “on a demand-driven approach.”

According to the TSC recommendations, Kenya Technical Training College should be directed to upscale the training of teachers in the technical oriented subjects required under CBC.

“Universities should be appropriately informed about the new subjects and that should guide admission of students pursuing education to meet the projected demands,” the commission says.

In the new Curriculum, teachers will be expected to handle three subjects as opposed to the current two.

“Teachers at this level (secondary school) will teach three subjects at Junior and Senior secondary,” reads the TSC framework document on entry requirements in the teaching service.

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TSC 2022 Recruitment Marking Scheme, Road Map

The Teachers Service Commission, TSC, has released the 2022 teacher recruitment guidelines, marking scheme and road map.

According to the recruitment road map, TSC county directors collected employment from the commission on Friday,28th January .The commission is expected to generate a merit list by the end of week which will be worked upon by recruitment panels in schools where Recruitment will take place between Friday 11th February and Thursday 17th February 2022.

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There is no doubt that the following considerations ,guidelines and score sheet will be applied in generating merit lists in the upcoming recruitment exercise

In the new recruitment guidelines released by TSC, qualified teachers who have evidence of internship will stand high chances of securing TSC jobs.

Another factor that will increase chances of one to get employed is the quality of certificate. However, tutors teaching subjects combinations like:

Physics/Chemistry,

Biology/Agriculture

Chemistry/Biology

are easily absorbed by TSC since they are few.

Applicants must present original and legible photocopies of the following

documents:-

1. National identification cards;

2. National Council of Persons with Disability (NCPWD) Card (where applicable);

3. KCPE Certificates;

4. KCSE Certificates (include first attempt certificate if repeated exams);

5. Diploma/Degree Certificates and official transcripts;

6. Primary and Secondary Schools leaving certificates

NB: Provisional transcript shall not be accepted.

Where names on the submitted documents differ, the applicant will be required to submit a sworn affidavit.

Graduate, Degree BA + PGDE or BSC + PGDE Masters Teachers, Diploma or Dip. Tech. Education trained teachers here is the score sheet;

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It is important to note that teachers who are serving in internship programme will have an advantage of thirty (30) marks. This will automatically give them an upper hand.

Here is the score sheet that will be used by TSC during 2022 employment for Secondary school teachers

SCORING AREAS MAXIMUM SCORE

Degree (BED) 

First class 40

Second Class Upper 35

Second Class Lower 35

Pass 30

Degree + PGDE or BSC+PGDE

First class 40

Second Class Upper 35

Second Class Lower 35

Pass 30

Diploma + Dip Tech Education

Distinction 40

Credit 25

Pass 15

Diploma in Education

Distinction 40

Credit 35

Pass 30

Maximum Score 40

EVIDENCE OF INTERNSHIP SERVICE 30

Awarding of marks for Length of stay since qualifying as a teacher (since graduation.

It is also important to note that the marks for length of stay after graduation has been reduced by a big margin.

YEAR SCORE

2015 and Before 25

2016 20

2017 15

2018 10

2019 and After 5

MAXIMUM SCORE 25

Awarding of marks for Length of stay since qualifying as a teacher for those previously employed by TSC

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YEAR SCORE

2018 and After 25

2017-2016 20

2015-2014 15

2013-2012 10

2011 and before 10

MAXIMUM SCORE 25

NB:For purposes of scoring part B, year of completion of professional training (BED or PGDE) whose certificate is used to score part A of this score sheet determines the length of stay but not year of enhancement.

Advantage of Communication ability and Co-curricular certificate of participation

Co-curricular certificate plays a key role in tie-breaking, it earns a candidate 1 mark advantage. Co-curricular certificate ranges from activities like Football, Basketball, Athletics Rugby and Music. Normally, the most considered certificates are for Regional level and National level.

AREA SCORE

Communication Ability 2

Participation in Co-curricular activities 1

Students’ academic performance(Exam Record) 1

Special Talent(s) 1

MAXIMUM SCORE 5

Finally, Ensure that your content mastery in your teaching subjects is commendable.So as to be on a safe side, its important to provide evidence by producing a document to score above marks. NB: No candidate should score zero in this section.

It is important to note that good command in communication and convincing confidence level will put you in a good position to secure a job with TSC.

TSC list of teachers’ most feared items

The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has revealed top ten fears among teachers. According to a new report on teachers’ preparedness report the anticipated new fourth wave of Covid-19 has been listed as the greatest challenge facing teachers, currently.

The report further says that teachers may not be well prepared to tackle the challenges (of the new wave of covid 19) due to inadequate funding, limited water and fear of the unknown.

The second challenge facing teachers is that of syllabus coverage. The report says the congested school calendar may lead to hurried coverage of the syllabus in schools, and according to the teachers, this may affect quality teaching and learning.

“Because of available time, the quality learning is a headache to teachers,” said Reuben Nthamburi, TSC director of quality assurance.

Thirdly, teachers fear congestion in schools due to the overstretched infrastructure; as all learners troop back to schools.

“Many children will all be coming in at the same time. And with few spaces available, teachers are worried,” adds Dr Nthamburi.

Additionally, increase in teachers’ workload is sending cold shivers to the teachers; who say more work will be at their disposal and managing children and running schools will be immense for them.

Implementation of the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) has been listed as the fifth fear among teachers. Much as the CBC books have been dispatched to schools, the teachers hold that the implementation of the new curriculum in the other classes, including the pioneer class, will remain a headache.

Another fear among teachers is the challenge on Fees payment by parents. The teachers say the effects posed by the current Covid 19 pandemic may limit parents’ ability to meet school fees obligations.

Here is the full list of fears among teachers, as documented by TSC:

  • New wave of the deadly Covid 19 pandemic,
  • Syllabus coverage,
  • Congestion in schools due to the overstretched infrastructure,
  • Increase in teachers’ workload,
  • Implementation of the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC),
  • Fees payment by parents,
  • Early pregnancies,
  • Drug and substance abuse,
  • Insecurity as children go to schools,
  • Disasters and
  • School dropouts.

The Commission has come up with measures to mitigate against these fears. Some of these include:

  1. Increase psychosocial support,
  2. Increase access to water and soap, minimize the use of sanitisers,
  3. Sustain positive messages to teachers,
  4. Train teachers on the management of Covid-19,
  5. Enhance contacts with health institutions and personnel for regular checkups,
  6. Blended learning: Incorporate remote learning as alternative modes of curriculum delivery.
  7. No more stopping leaning in case of another surge.
  8. Urging all teachers to be vaccinated against Covid 19. So far, some 158,720, teachers have received the first dose of the vaccine, with another 89,611 fully vaccinated.

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