TSC Internship: The Teachers Service Commission may hire more interns before schools reopen its proposals goes through. The TSC has asked for some Sh. 25 billion to effectively prepare for schools opening. This preparation includes the hiring of some 12,000 interns by January.
TSC Chief Executive Officer Nancy Macharia tabled the request in a report during a two-day consultative forum with National Assembly Education Committee. According to the report, the Commission said it plans to hire 12,000 additional intern teachers ahead of the opening. This will bring to 23,574, the total number of teacher interns hired since last year.
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“TSC requires Sh. 17 billion to hire some 26,000 teachers to manage high schools enrollment under the 100 per cent transition. It also needs Sh. 8.1 billion annually to hire 12,500 teachers to plug the normal shortage,” a report on the anticipated hiring that appeared in the Standard newspaper on Thursday said.
Ms. Macharia further said that the Commission had projected to employ 12,500 teachers annually for the next five years to mitigate the shortage in the country. “However, this target has not been met due to inadequate budgetary provisions,” she said.
She added that under normal staffing, the commission needed 50,504 teachers to support the existing staff establishment. “Instead, the commission has so far only employed 23,700 teachers since 2017,” she said.
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In the current financial year, the commission received a budget of Sh.2.5 billion to employ 5,000 teachers. This report comes barely a month after the TSC dismissed reports that it had advertised for fresh internship opportunities. TSC Internship.
