The Kenya Union of Special Needs Education Teachers (KUSNET) has condemned the recent move where member of parliaments (MPs) have been issuing employment forms in public gatherings to unemployed teachers warning that the move will interfere with education standards in the country.
Speaking to Education News in a recent interview, the union Secretary General James Torome noted that Teachers Service Commission (TSC) employment letters shouldn’t be distributed publicly by politicians since it’s only the Commission that is mandated to recruit qualified teachers as per the set laws and regulations.
“If now teachers are going to be employed by politicians what will be the work and the functions of the Teachers Service Commission? They must give us the source of those letters and the person who gave them, and who gave them the powers to employ because to our knowledge, they are giving those letters to their supporters,” said Torome.
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The KUSNET boss who made the same pronouncement in Katito Kisumu County mid this month during the burial of the father to the president of Education Assessment Resource Centre (EAC) called to a stop of this trend, which he noted that the same was witnessed during the reign of the former Education Cabinet Secretary, Ezekiel Machogu, when he publicly issued employment letters in a public gathering in Kisii.
“We have teachers who have trained and they have over 10 years stayed without being employed, but now they are employing those people who came directly from college, who have not even finished one year since graduation! It is too much.
The interference of TSC by politicians is going to collapse the education system in this country. They should keep off and leave recruitment of teachers to the TSC,” reiterated Torome.
By Hezron Roy
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