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TSC To Transfer Teachers To Regions Experiencing Acute Teacher Shortages

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TSC To Transfer Teachers To Regions Experiencing Acute Teacher Shortages

Looming Mass Transfer of Teachers as TSC Starts Registering Teachers Afresh

The Teachers Service Commission has revealed it’s plans to evenly distribute all TSC teachers once the biometric registration process is complete.

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According to Ibrahim Mumin, Director-Administration, the biometric registration of all TSC employed teachers will give a clear picture of regions that are experiencing acute shortages of teachers and those with a surplus supply.

After the completion of the fresh registration of teachers, the Commission will be obliged to delocalize and transfer some teachers who are currently being underutilized to areas with very few teachers.

Chronic Absenteeism

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The new biometric registration of teachers will help the Commission curb chronic absenteeism among staff in Kenya since real time updates on clock in and out and lesson attendance will be sent to the Commission’s headquarters once a teacher arrives in school.

The fresh registration of teachers through the TSC biometric system exercise is currently on a pilot phase.

The Teachers Service Commission began registering teachers in Kenya afresh yesterday.

This exercise is meant to help the Teachers Service Commission TSC determine the shortage of teachers in Kenya public schools and colleges.

The fresh registration of TSC teachers will also help the Commission determine teacher utilization and distribution.

Of importance is that the Commission will be able to clean it’s payroll by getting rid of ghost teachers who have been drawing huge salaries from the TSC.

 

TSC Requirements For Biometric Registration of Teachers, List of Targetted Schools and Counties

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 TSC Full List of Requirements For Biometric Registration of Teachers

TSC Requirements For Biometric Registration

TSC Officially Rolls Out a Piloting Biometric Registration Exercise for Teachers; Check Out Whether Your School Falls within the Targetted Counties

Teachers Service Commission on Monday 17th, launched a piloting biometric registration exercise targeting 143 schools spread in seven counties ahead of the full rollout.

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TSC List of Targetted Counties for the May 2021 Biometric Registration Exercise for Teachers

The seven counties include; Uasin Gishu, Homa Bay, Bungoma, Nyeri, Kilifi, Kitui and Garissa. Institutions sampled are from primary, secondary and teachers training colleges.

TSC Biometric Registration Deadline: The pilot exercise will run till 21st May 2021.

Official Time for TSC Biometric Registration Exercise

Teachersare reminded that the biometric registration exercise will be take place in schools during the official working hours between 8:00 am and 5:00 pm.

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According to the TSC boss Dr Nancy Macharia, the bio data will help the commission in curbing cheating during exams.

The Commission further indicated that the biometric registration will help to verify teacher distribution and utilization in schools, establish areas of teaching specialization, validate the enrolment in public schools and authenticate teachers bio data and employment records.

Requirements for TSC Biometric registration

During the registration, teachers are required to physically present the following five documents during the exercise;

TSC Certificate of registration
National ID card
Letter of first appointment
Letter of last appointment
Academic Certificates

It is important to note that this is a piloting exercise for the program planned to be launched countrywide after solving the bottlenecks which may arise.

Plans are underway to see to it that in future, teachers joining the profession will have their bio-data taken before their details are entered into the payroll.

Biometric registration exercise was initially slated to start in May 2020 but it was shelved due to the Covid-19 pandemic that adversely affected operations in schools leading to closure.

“The biometric registration shall entail validation of data of teachers in all public primary and secondary schools, Teacher Training Colleges, Centre for Mathematics, Science and Technology Education in Africa (CEMASTEA) and Kenya Institute of Special Education (KISE),” the commission revealed.