The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has issued guidelines and modalities of deploying 1,206 primary school teachers to Junior School, indicating among other things the qualifications and their new grades.
In an internal memo addressed to all TSC regional, county and sub-county directors dated May 23, 2024 and signed by the acting Director of Staffing Antonina Lentoijoni, the primary school teachers will be required to have qualifications to teach in secondary school.
The teacher must have an active registration as a teacher with the TSC, is employed as a primary school teacher by the commission, should not be currently under interdiction or undergoing a disciplinary process, and have a minimum of a Diploma in Education with a minimum of C+ in KCSE and C+ in two teaching subjects.
This should either be under 8-4-4 or Competency Based Curriculum (CBC), or two principals and one subsidiary pass at “A” level. Those with a minimum of C (plain) at KCSE and have undertaken a Diploma in Education together with a Bachelor Degree in Education also qualify for deployment.
Further, the teachers who wish to be deployed must have expressed interest to be deployed to JS and their names appear in the list shared from the headquarters. However, those with Bachelor of Education (Primary Option) do not qualify for deployment.
During the deployment exercise, primary school teachers at Grade B5 and C1 who hold a Bachelor’s degree will be issued appointment letters to Grade C2 while those at Grade B5 who hold a Diploma in Education will be issued appointment letters to Grade C1.
Teachers at Grade C2 who hold a Bachelor’s degree and were promoted on or before March 26, 2021 will be issued with appointment letters to Grade C2. Those at Grade C1 who hold a Diploma Certificate and have not completed three or more years, those at C2 with Diploma Certificate and those at Grade C3 and above who hold a Bachelor’s degree will too be issued with deployment letters.
The deployment letters will be signed by the TSC Sub-County Directors for teachers within the sub-county while those who may be deployed outside the sub-county will have their letters signed by the County Director and Regional Director for the case of Nairobi.
The TSC field officers have been instructed to give consideration to the proximity to the teacher’s current station and subject combination. However, they will not deploy teachers with similar subject combinations as those already posted to JS, and also consider gender balance.
Teachers with Special Needs Education (SNE) qualification will be deployed to Special JS.
During vetting, the teachers have been instructed to ensure they submit their original and copies of their degree or diploma certificates, academic transcripts, SNE qualifications where applicable, KCSE certificate, and current payslips, plus a declaration by the head of institution that the teacher is currently serving in the school and is neither serving an interdiction nor undergoing a disciplinary process.
Immediately the teachers are deployed to JS, the County Director will initiate posting on the Posting, Entry/Exit Reports Module to the sub-county, then the Sub-County Director (SCD) will post the teacher to JS.
Head of institution releasing the teachers is instructed to immediately exit them through the submission of Exit Reports to enable the receiving heads to submit the Entry Report.
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