TSC Sub-County Directors (SCDs) are complaining of being overworked through what they consider as impossible deadlines in the current recruitment of teachers.
TSC has told the SCDs overseeing the hiring progamme to do the work between October 11, 2024 and October 17, 2024, which is barely a week in the recruitment of 46,000 teachers across the country.
This is being done under immense pressure without facilitation in the form of stationary and refreshment for the panelists who include the SCDs and Curriculum Support Officers (CSOs), and without lunch or transport to and fro their respective venues.
The staff are forced to use their resources to do the work. Ironically, the commissioners are freely traversing the breadth and width of the country in convoys of several fuel guzzlers in their supervision of the exercise.
The commissioners themselves get instant night outs and lunches, complete with attractive per diems, yet the people they supervise only yawn in hunger and depression.
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The commission expects to hire 39,650 Junior Secondary School (JSS) teachers, 6,000 for primary school and 450 for secondary schools.
On the first day of their assignment which was to begin yesterday October 11, 2024, the field staff were to do the verification of all documents of possible candidates to be considered for the jobs.
The second day of the exercise which will be on Monday October 14, 2024 will involve preparation of the score guides focussing on the documents verified, based on the teachers who have applied.
Education News has learnt however, that each sub-county has been allocated specific number of teachers to hire per category.
On Tuesday October 15, 2024, which will be the third day of the exercise, the SCDs are expected to call all those shortlisted to arrive at the respective recruitment venues to fill the employment forms.
On Wednesday October 16, 2024, the officers will draft Letters of Offer of Employment to all the successful candidates and sign them, hence completing the exercise the following day by sending them out to successful candidates in their respective schools.
They will also be expected to submit all the documents, including the merit list through the recruitment portal created by TSC.
The commission received Ksh18 billion from the National Treasury to cover the recruitment of 46,000 teachers.
By Peter Silsil
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