TSC Internship 2020: The Standard Media Apologises to the TSC for misreporting about the recruitment of 8, 141 teacher interns on Permanent and Pensionable Terms in March 2020
The Standard Media Group Apologises to TSC over the 8, 141 TSC Interns
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“TSC Hires 8,000 Interns to fill new positions” is the title which raised the hope of the over 10, 000 2019 TSC intern teachers who daily look forward to great news-being absorbed by the TSC on permanent and pensionable terms given the better packages that come with PnP employment.
Intern teachers were consumed with joy as they enthusiastically perused the article published by The Standard on Friday March 27, 2020 wondering whether their names will appear in the TSC list.
Unfortunately, The Standard had misreported about the employment of the 8, 141 intern teachers on permanent and pensionable terms in March 2020.
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This move angered the Teachers Service Commission given the sensitivity of the matter. Consequently, the TSC Head of Communications officer Ms. Wababu reached out to The Standard Media by blowing a whistle about the miscommunication.
Consequently, The Standard Group Media has taken a bold step toward the right direction for it has apologized to the TSC for the miscommunication to the general public.
The apology was given in a story entitled “Clarification and apology: TSC recruits.”
“We apologize to the Commission for the error” read part of the story.
Clarification on the hiring of the 8, 141 TSC Interns in March 2020
The Standard Media Group made it clear that the 8, 141 TSC Intern Teachers have been successfully placed on payroll.
Last year the TSC employed 10, 3030 interns but due to missing documents, 2, 159 are yet to be placed on payroll.
Permanent and Pensionable terms
Yet to be placed on the TSC payroll are 149 teachers who were hired on Permanent and Pensionable terms. 8, 920 out of the total 9, 069 teachers who were employed by the Commission on Permanent and Pensionable terms have also been placed on payroll.
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