TSC Internship Posting Letters Released: TSC posts intern teachers, lines up more internship vacancies for November-December Recruitment; TSC Internship Posting Letters and Reporting Dates 2021/2022

TSC posts intern teachers, lines up more internship vacancies for November-December Recruitment; TSC Internship Posting Letters and Reporting Dates 2021/2022

TSC posts intern teachers as more lined up for employment

The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has started to post intern teachers it recruited this month to schools.

Though there were rumours TSC would delay and post the recruited teachers in January 2022, sources have revealed a plan to post more teachers starting next week.

The Commission advertised 1,995 teacher internship posts in September 2021 where 1,038 posts went to primary schools and 957 posts to secondary schools.

TSC said the recruitment of the intern teachers was in support of the Governments initiative to develop a pool of young talents for the Kenyan Labour Market.

TSC Internship programme is a short term programme lasting one year that supports efforts by teacher training institutions to equip and sustain the competencies of persons entering teaching service.

Interns attached to primary schools get a monthly stipend of Kshs. 15,000/= while those in secondary schools get Kshs. 20,000/=.

The recruitment of intern teachers is meant to address severe teacher shortage in schools.

TSC also extended internship for 4,005 teachers whose one year term was to end in December 2021.

The Commission had outlined its plan of employing at least 6,000 intern teachers by December 2021.

According to TSC Chief Executive Nancy Macharia the additional employees would ease teachers’ workload as enrollment rises, particularly due to the government’s 100 per cent transition from primary to secondary school policy.

“This is a commendable government effort to ensure quality learning and teaching in our public schools,” said Macharia.

Macharia said the recruitment of 6,000 teachers on internship will cost the Commission kshs 1.2 billion.

She said TSC is more concerned with the workload brought by the 100 per cent transition policy and commended the government for allocating more funds for recruiting more teachers.

“We appreciate the government for allocating TSC funds annually for the recruitment of additional teachers since the 100 per cent transition programme was launched,” said Nancy Macharia.

However of the 6,000 internship vacancies only 2,000 will go to primary schools while the rest 4,000 will be reserved for secondary schools.

Last year TSC recruited 12,000 intern teachers under the Covid-19 economic stimulus package at a cost of Sh2.4 billion.

During the recruitment TSC highlighted the following requirements for one to be eligible for internship.

ELIGIBILITY FOR INTERNSHIP

To qualify, an applicant must at the time of application meet the following basic requirements:

a) Be Kenyan citizen;

b) Must be a registered teacher with Teachers Service Commission;

c) Be a holder of a P1 Certificate for Primary Schools and a minimum of a Diploma in Education Certificate for Secondary Schools;

d) Hold original academic and professional certificates;

e) Should not have been in previous employment with the Commission, as a teacher on permanent terms;

f) Must not have served as teacher intern under TSC (teacher) Internship Programme;

g) Be ready to be posted to any public educational institution in Kenya;

h) Must have a Personal Accident Insurance to cover for personal risks during the internship period.

In addition to the above, successful applicants shall be required to produce;

a) A copy of the National Identity Card (ID) or Passport Certificate;

b) A copy of Teacher Registration Certificate/ print-out from TSC portal evidencing registration as a teacher;

c) A copy of NCPWD card (where applicable);

d) A valid Certificate of Good Conduct;

e) Two (2) coloured passport size photographs;

f) A copy of NHIF card;

g) A copy of KRA PIN.