By Enock Kipturgut
Embu County head teachers have opposed the move by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to employ intern teachers to fill the over 100,000 national teacher shortage.
Addressing the over 150 County head teachers at their 6th Annual Kenya Secondary Schools Heads Association Conference held at an Eldoret Hotel, KSSHA County Chairman Francis Karuraa said the move is undermining the Kenyan teacher.
He said this will demoralise teachers leading to dismal performance in schools.
Karuraa urged the TSC to instead employ teachers on permanent and pensionable terms to reduce the understaffing in schools across the country.
“We called upon TSC to re-think about this issue as intern teachers equally qualify to be employed into permanent and pensionable terms as their counterparts who are already in the service,” explained the chairman.
Karuraa, lauded the Ministry of Education for the curriculum review as learners are taught competence based curriculum that goes along way to tapping new talents in all the learning transition stages.
The Principal of St Paul’s Kiamboa Secondary School, Ng’an’ga Ndia representing Embu Secondary Schools teachers at the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) concurred with the KSSHA Chairman that the new curriculum will ensure assessment of Learners hence quick talent identification at all levels.
He said KSSHA has partnered with the Ministry of Education in the implementation of various reforms that are geared towards realization of quality education standards in the country.
The lead Consultant and Director of Smartlife Company Limited Dr. Stanley Kamau called upon teachers to embrace result based leadership in schools, the only way for good performance.
