Thousands Of Teachers Cannot Be Accounted For: TSC To Carry out Fresh Registration
- Biometric registration meetings say there are 316,662 teachers in both primary and secondary schools across the country.
- This set of teachers roll conflicts with another presented in Parliament last week by the TSC that showing there are 305,568 teachers in both primary and secondary schools. .
- This brings to a total of 11,094 teachers that cannot be accounted for.
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) is planning to register all teachers afresh in a countrywide process that kicks off next week. This comes after it emerged that thousands of teachers on the payroll cannot be accounted for.
Documents seen by the Sunday Standard indicate that all teachers in the country will undergo fresh head count from school level.
“Identification and data collection from the teachers shall be done at the zonal level with the smallest centre of data collection being the school,” reads the TSC document.
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The TSC concept note says the pilot phase of the biometric registration will be done between May 11 and 15 across seven counties, before it is rolled out across the country. The plans for the process however start next week.
The exercise will cover all public primary, secondary and tertiary institutions, Curriculum Support Officers and special programs in all the 47 counties.
This means teachers who are currently earning salaries without proper documentation will be sent home. And those who irregularly acquired TSC registration numbers without following due process will also be identified and de-listed. This can also give crucial information for prosecution by th Teachers Service Commission.
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The push comes against the backdrop of conflicting teacher’s data that continues to be released by the employer. The latest data released by the TSC ahead of the stakeholders’ biometric registration meetings says there are 316,662 teachers in both primary and secondary schools across the country. Of these, the TSC document says there are 217,281 teachers deployed in 22,633 primary schools. 99,381 teachers are currently serving in 8,865 secondary schools. This set of teachers roll conflicts with another presented in Parliament last week by the TSC that showing there are 305,568 teachers in both primary and secondary schools. According to the document tabled before the National Assembly Education Committee, there are some 211,046 teachers in primary schools and 94,522 in secondary schools. This brings to a total of 11,094 teachers that cannot be accounted for.
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The TSC concept note says the pilot phase of the biometric registration will be done between May 11 and 15 across seven counties, before it is rolled out across the country. The plans for the process however start next week.
A total of 143 primary, secondary and teachers training colleges in Uasin Gishu, Homa Bay, Bungoma, Nyeri, Kilifi, Kitui and Garissa will be selected on pro-rate basis for the pilot phase
The details are contained in the TSC document dubbed ‘Biometric Registration of Teachers in Basic Public Education Institutions’ that says the listing will be expanded to include teachers in other public institutions under the TSC.
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According to TSC, the grand validation process is aimed at verifying teacher distribution, utilization and teaching specialization in all public education institutions. It shall also help the commission to update the existing information on teachers’ bio data and validate the teacher requirement in all public schools and training colleges by size and learner enrollment.
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All these comes at a time when KNUT has opposed the proposed payment of Ksh.6000 for teacher training proposed by TSC. Four institutions have already been contracted and all teachers are supposed to undergo the training at least four times in their career life.
