By Wasike Elvis
Uasin Gishu Deputy Governor Daniel Chemno has faulted the Teachers Service Commission for not employing over 300,000 PI teachers.
Speaking to the press recently, Chemno said the move by TSC is an injustice to teachers who did their PI certificate.
“The move by TSC is uncalled for and only meant to punish teachers who did their certificate course,” said Chemno.
He asked TSC to give the teachers a refresher course for them to transit from what they trained for to what the commission desires.
The Ministry of Education has indicated that a Diploma in Primary Teacher Education (DPTE) will be the minimum qualification for primary school teachers.
The diploma-level training tailored for Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) was set to begin in May in teacher training colleges.
The training programme will take three years, giving little time for the certificate holders to advance their training
“Parents cannot spend allot of money to take their children to school and you just throw them under the bus and yet the for Education George Magoha CS is just keeping quite,” Chemno added.
He urged TSC to look for other alternative ways rather than denying thousands of students a chance to practice what they were taught.
Chemno further said that the intended scraping the Bachelor of Education degree requirement for teachers is ill informed.
TSC says that those intending to pursue teaching courses will take regular Arts or Science degrees followed by a one-year post graduate diploma in education to qualify for registration as teachers.
“Bachelor of Education is a professional course just like any course and if the new system wants to add something, its should not do away with it but only enrich the course to comply with the current syllabus change,” he said.
