By Allan Kibet
A total of 18,585 secondary school teachers have been appointed by Teachers Service Commission (TSC) in the last three years with Kakamega County taking the largest share of 711 teachers appointed in the successive years followed by Bungoma and Kitui with 597 and 584 respectively.
Counties that took the least shares of appointments among the 18,585 teachers were Isiolo, Lamu and Tana River Counties with 32, 61 and76 teachers respectively.
The 18,585 in the TSC appointments can be broken down into 7,888 teachers in the 2018/2019 period, 5,166 in 2019/2020 and 5,531 teachers in 2020/2021 fiscal year.
| NEWLY APPOINTED TEACHERS – SECONDARY | ||||
| S/NO. | COUNTY | NUMBER APOINTED | ||
| 2018/2019 | 2019/2020 | 2020/2021 | ||
| 1 | BARINGO | 101 | 75 | 176 |
| 2 | BOMET | 202 | 190 | 392 |
| 3 | BUNGOMA | 302 | 295 | 597 |
| 4 | BUSIA | 162 | 119 | 281 |
| 5 | ELGEYO MARAKWET | 48 | 62 | 110 |
| 6 | EMBU | 138 | 82 | 220 |
| 7 | GARISSA | 167 | 25 | 192 |
| 8 | HOMA BAY | 328 | 199 | 527 |
| 9 | ISIOLO | 27 | 5 | 32 |
| 10 | KAJIADO | 50 | 39 | 89 |
| 11 | KAKAMEGA | 393 | 318 | 711 |
| 12 | KERICHO | 138 | 136 | 274 |
| 13 | KIAMBU | 167 | 146 | 313 |
| 14 | KILIFI | 147 | 125 | 272 |
| 15 | KIRINYAGA | 106 | 73 | 179 |
| 16 | KISII | 289 | 185 | 474 |
| 17 | KISUMU | 186 | 135 | 321 |
| 18 | KITUI | 390 | 194 | 584 |
| 19 | KWALE | 89 | 56 | 145 |
| 20 | LAIKIPIA | 84 | 49 | 133 |
| 21 | LAMU | 44 | 17 | 61 |
| 22 | MACHAKOS | 263 | 181 | 444 |
| 23 | MAKUENI | 321 | 192 | 513 |
| 24 | MANDERA | 200 | 27 | 227 |
| 25 | MARSABIT | 117 | 8 | 125 |
| 26 | MERU | 281 | 180 | 461 |
| 27 | MIGORI | 334 | 196 | 530 |
| 28 | MOMBASA | 80 | 34 | 114 |
| 29 | MURANGA | 189 | 134 | 323 |
| 30 | NAIROBI | 155 | 70 | 225 |
| 31 | NAKURU | 293 | 238 | 531 |
| 32 | NANDI | 208 | 143 | 351 |
| 33 | NAROK | 88 | 92 | 180 |
| 34 | NYAMIRA | 126 | 85 | 211 |
| 35 | NYANDARUA | 207 | 111 | 318 |
| 36 | NYERI | 108 | 81 | 189 |
| 37 | SAMBURU | 58 | 23 | 81 |
| 38 | SIAYA | 209 | 170 | 379 |
| 39 | TAITA TAVETA | 96 | 51 | 147 |
| 40 | TANA RIVER | 60 | 16 | 76 |
| 41 | THARAKA NITHI | 37 | 74 | 111 |
| 42 | TRANS NZOIA | 295 | 158 | 453 |
| 43 | TURKANA | 67 | 44 | 111 |
| 44 | UASIN GISHU | 164 | 92 | 256 |
| 45 | VIHIGA | 167 | 125 | 292 |
| 46 | WAJIR | 53 | 29 | 82 |
| 47 | WEST POKOT | 154 | 87 | 241 |
| TOTAL | 7888 | 5166 | 5531 | |
| GRAND TOTAL | 18585 | |||
The teacher employer also in the last three years from 2018 to 2021 appointed a total of 3,654 Heads of Institutions.
At the same time, a total of 22, 239 teachers including newly employed teachers and Head of Institutions underwent Induction, Mentorship and Coaching (TIMEC) programme initiated by TSC.
“The Commission, in its Strategic Plan 2019 -2023, committed to implement mentorship and coaching as a preventive strategy that pre-empts indiscipline amongst teachers rather than corrective mechanisms in management of discipline,” stated Dr. Macharia in the policy document.
Currently in the country, there are 341,760 active teachers employed by TSC while 170,000 are in the private sector teaching in private institutions and another 238,686 are registered by the commission but are yet to be absorbed either in the private sector or in government.
