Good News To Nursery School Teachers As TSC to Hire Them
Now, the task committee on education reforms is recommending that TSC hire nursery teachers, a duty currently performed by county governments.
However, it was found that the stakeholders had only got the hurriedly created presentations and not the interim report.
The major suggestions suggest that if the final report of the education reforms committee is implemented, the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) would lose some of its jurisdiction.
The commission is established under Article 237 (1) of the constitution with the primary duty of hiring, registering, employing, deploying, transferring, disciplining, and terminating teacher contracts.
The task committee wants to create a separate organisation, nevertheless, to oversee the teaching profession.
As a result, TSC would solely be in charge of human resource duties while handing over regulatory responsibility to another organisation.
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At the meeting, it was revealed that altering the TSC’s authority would necessitate either a Parliamentary act or a referendum.
The Quality Assurance and Standards (QAS) responsibilities currently carried out by TSC will be standardised and centralised, according to our team.
Members of the task force were advised that TSC might also lose this duty as a result of forthcoming changes in order to prevent duplication.
With regard to these duties, TSC and the Ministry of Education have disagreed, issuing conflicting instructions at the county level.
Concerns about the open process were raised when the task force on school reforms conducted a meeting behind closed doors to confirm their findings.
The event, intended to present the team’s intermediate report, was closed to the press.
The Centre for Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education in Africa (CEMASTEA) had a gathering on Tuesday that was referred to as a “open forum.”
“Since the party’s creation, it has endeavoured to fulfil the requirements of its Terms of Reference as stated in the Gazette Notice. A public forum has been organised in response to Prof. Raphael Munavu’s call to present the draught report to stakeholders for approval.
A confidential source at the conference, however, disclosed that parliamentarians, teachers’ union and association members, religious leaders, and senior ministry officials were present.
The committee proposed cutting the number of subjects offered to junior secondary students, harmonising quality assurance, and decreasing the employer’s influence over instructors in its interim report.
It was suggested to create a TVET Commission that would be in charge of all human resource duties for middle-level college staff in addition to changing the capitation distribution plan.
Good News To Nursery School Teachers As TSC to Hire Them
