TSC Ask Teachers to Apply 1,123 Unfilled Teaching Positions
Despite the astounding number of unemployed teachers, she said 1,123 teacher positions published in the Coast, Rift Valley, North Eastern, Eastern, and Central had yet to attract applications. Macharia advised unemployed teachers to avoid looking for work in their home counties.
“I urge all unemployed teachers to apply for advertised jobs in any part of the country and shun the practice of only seeking jobs advertised in their home counties,” she said.
The TSC boss stated that 45 of the 17,393 listed positions in Rift Valley are yet to be filled. The counties with open positions are Kajiado (5), Samburu (9), and Turkana (31). TSC posted 17,393 job openings.
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TSC announced 2,126 vacancies in North Eastern; however, 795 are yet to be filled. “In Garisa, there are 199 vacancies, Mandera 385, and Wajir 211 vacant positions,” she said.
Macharia stated that TSC advertised for 10,614 positions and has filled 10,542 of them, leaving 72 open. Isiolo has eight available jobs, and Marsabit has 64.
While advertising 4,607 jobs on the Coast, the TSC has not filled 39 vacancies in Kwale County, 46 vacancies in Lamu, and 92 vacancies in Tana River.
Macharia inquired why 25 jobs in Murang’a and nine in Nyeri remained unfilled in the Central area.
In Central, the Teachers Service Commission advertised 6,007 positions, but 34 slots remained unfilled at the conclusion of the exercise.
“There are 25 vacancies in Murang’a and nine vacancies in Nyeri,” she stated.
Macharia did not specify the subjects most affected by the job postings.
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According to headteachers interviewed on Thursday, most teachers avoid working in the Rift Valley and North Eastern sections due to insecurity. All listed positions in Nyanza and Nairobi have been filled.
The TSC chief commended the government for granting cash to the commission to hire 56,000 teachers in one year, most of whom will work in Junior Secondary Schools.
Macharia stated that TSC was retooling teachers to embrace continuing education reforms.
She joyfully reported that, in line with the commitment to adopt these reforms, TSC, through a multi-agency approach, successfully retooled 229,292 primary school teachers.
Furthermore, she announced the recent completion of training for 56,928 teachers in the previous month, encompassing 48,550 newly recruited Junior School teachers and 8,378 teachers redeployed from primary to Junior Secondary schools.
She mentioned that TSC was an Information Technology IT complaint, so teacher recruitment was simple because they no longer had to travel to county offices or secondary schools to hand off their applications.
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“The online recruitment model has promoted accountability, and fairness is faster, cost-effective, and convenient, besides eliminating paperwork,” she said.
She announced the mechanization of the processing of teachers’ pay stubs. “So far, we have automated process focus on leave, recruitment, transfer pension claims processing and tracking, discipline, appraisal, training and development, and benefits and promotion,” she said.
Macharia told the principals that because they had made it through the CBC system to Grade 8, she was confident they were qualified to be principals of comprehensive schools, a combination of primary and junior secondary schools.
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TSC Ask Teachers to Apply 1,123 Unfilled Teaching Positions
