Teachers Issue Demands to TSC

After graduate teachers complained about the delays in issuing TSC numbers, the Teachers’ Service Commission (TSC) came under fire.

Speaking to the media on Saturday, February 22, the educators disclosed that many of them were struggling with unemployment as a result of the delays in acquiring these important documents.

So as to alleviate the employment crisis in the education sector, the teachers also urged the commission to reduce the internship’s current one-year duration to less than a year.

They claim that putting graduating teachers in internships for longer than a year caused stress in their life and compelled some of them to leave before landing a permanent job.

The graduate instructors, particularly those with advanced degrees, petitioned the government to provide them with appropriate compensation in addition to demanding prompt employment.

The demands were made just one month after the government declared its intention to hire an extra 6,000 teachers to help with the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) implementation.

The plans were also in accordance with the preparation for the Grade 10 class, which would be the first class of the Senior Secondary School (SSS), Government Spokesperson Isaac Mwaura told reporters on January 20.