By CHARLES NGENO
The Teachers Service Commission will next month hire 968 teachers to replace those who have left the service through natural attrition in the last one year.
Commission Secretary Gabriel Lengoiboin said 572 slots will go to primary schools while 396 have been preserved for post primary schools.
"Only teachers who are registered with the commission as per section 23 of the TSC Act no 20 of 2012 will be considered. Only those who are below 45 years old will also be considered,” said Lengoiboin.
For those eyeing the primary schools post, the secretary said allocations will be filled through the last recruitment exercise merit list.
Lengoiboin asked those interested persons to submit their applications to the TSC County Directors and school Board of Management (BOM) for primary and post primary schools respectively before July the 7th.
He added that the commission will only deal with applications received by the TSC County Directors and board of management stating that individual applications to the commission headquarters will not be considered.
"We want to warn members of the public against fraudsters who will want to extort money from them in the pretext of assisting them get jobs," he said adding that the minimum requirement for primary teachers is a P1 certificate while those interested in post primary institutions must be holders of at least Diploma in Education.
In April the commission hired 398 teachers to replace those who had left the service through natural attrition. Out of that number 243 posts went to primary school teachers while 155 went to post primary school institutions.
Last May the commission revealed that plans are underway to hire 5000 teachers this July. Lengoiboin said they would have hired 20,000 teachers had Treasury allocated themKshs9 billion they had requested.
