TSC Sub-County Directors Asked to Improve on Handling Teacher Management Challenges

TSC Sends Special Signal to All Sub-County Directors

The TSC Sub-County Directors have asked to improve on their skills in handling teacher management challenges within their jurisdiction. This comes after the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) took them through various operations in an effort to enable them up their service delivery within the Sub-county. This was mentioned during the second day of their workshop in Naivasha.

During the workshop, the Sub-county Directors were taken through the commission’s structure and formation. This was to expose them to other matters they are not conversant of in order to enable them provide excellent services at the their Sub-counties.

The Teachers Service Commission’s Director who is in charge of staffing Antonina Lentoijon highlighted the key challenges affecting the key mandate of the commission in areas of teacher recruitment, posting, transfers, promotion and management of TMIS data and handled the TSC decentralized functions.

Lentoijon went further and highlighted some of the major reasons for certificate forgery which included;

1. Recruitment of unqualified applicants
2. Impersonation
3. Lack of Authenticity of applicant’s past history
4. Vested interests
5. Lack of understanding of teacher recruitment policy
6. Failure to undertake verification of certificates.
7. Delays in posting and teacher reporting.
8. Lack of adequate data for the disqualified teachers
9. Failure to finalize the recruitment process
10. Uneven distribution of newly recruited teachers in schools
11. Failure to maintain the gender balance in schools.

The Sub-county Directors were advised to be keen during recruitment to ensure that the teachers who are recruited are eligible, registered and must not be having records of dismissal and conviction by the court of law.

The directors were further told to follow the service charter commitments during teacher transfers. They were advised to acknowledge teacher transfers and also issue regret to those who did not qualify after 90 days.

TSC Sends Special Signal to All Sub-County Directors

The commission further noted that some transfers are not capture on the entry/exit System with data inconsistencies which was cited as another challenge. It went ahead to say the some transfers are approved even before all other important parts are filled. Unequal distribution of teachers and idle teaching staff also played during the meeting as other challenges.

The commission mentioned that it has 348 Sub-County Directors with 342 of them deployed to various counties as Sub-County bosses who are charged with the responsibility of teacher management at Sub-County level. The other 6 remaining Sub-County Directors are stationed the the TSC headquarters meant to facilitate the processing of teacher registration.