Teachers Service Commission, (TSC) has been urged to procedurally advertised slots for teachers that exited payroll yesterday as a result of retirement.
Stakeholders in education sector are calling upon the commission not to attempt to hand over the slots to the politicians as happened sometimes during Dr Nancy Macharia’s tenure.
Speaking to Education News on survey themed ‘New dawn as TSC’s CEO retires’, teacher union officials, unemployed teachers and education lobby groups members pointed out that all eyes are trained on the track that the commission will follow in filling the vacancies arising from retiring teachers. It is estimated that around 10,242 teachers attained compulsory retirement yesterday.
“As a union, we are extra keen to take the unions head-on if it opts for the usual monkey business of dishing out employment forms to the politicians”, said Rodah a union official from Trans Nzoia.
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The same view is held by Elimu yetu maisha lobby group Director Sammy Ngwelu who said that TSC has been contravening its act by letting politicians execute its mandate of employing teachers.
Early this year, TSC was harshly criticized after members of parliament were captured issuing employment forms to the unemployed teachers. The scenario attracted cries from teachers, some of whom were nearing retirement age but had not been absorbed by the commission.
TSC is mandated by article 237 of the constitution to manage the teaching service. This includes registering trained teachers, recruiting and employing them, assigning them to public schools, promoting and transferring them, exercising disciplinary control and terminating their employment.
By Naboth Murunga.
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