TSC Virtual Case Hearings: The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has dismissed 59 teachers from service. This is after the commission held virtual hearings for 177 cases that were pending since schools were ordered closed by the government back in March.
Out of the 59 dismissed teachers, 23 were new cases while 26 were reviews for various offences with TSC adopting the virtual hearing back in August.
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“The hearing of discipline cases virtually was a milestone that supported dispensation of cases that had overstayed due to the Covid-19 containment measures that saw schedules for hearing cases face to face in the field for March up to June 2020 cancelled,” said TSC Director of Field Services Mary Rotich.
Beatrice Wababu, the commission’s Head of Corporate Communications said that the TSC was allowing teachers to call their witnesses just like in face to face hearing. “We give them the links just before the hearing begins and insist that they must show their faces during the entire hearing so that we may be sure we are dealing with the right person,” she said.
List of all teachers deregistered by TSC from March this year
The commission is now expected to hear 53 more cases which will be conducted by the commissioners from Monday, November 23 to Friday, December 4. TSC Virtual Case Hearings.
