The Latest TSC Internship News on Intern teachers’ Official reporting dates show that the newly recruited intern teachers are expected to trot to their work stations a month after their being recruited. See the full details below;
The Teachers Service Commission TSC has recently rounded up interviews for the 2021 October Internship recruitment of shortlisted job applicants
The interviews took take place between October 3 and 9, 2021 but the exact dates differed from one county to the other.
In previous interviews, there arose numerous complaints that neccessitated TSC to caution selection boards over biased treatment of teachers during internship hiring this year.
The Teachers Service Commission’s action was precipitated by branch union leaders and even Members of Parliamentary Education Committee following the preferential treatment of candidates that has seen native sons and daughters being favoured and given TSC teaching job opportunities either on internship or permanent and pensionable terms.
The TSC recruitment schedule runs for approximately 4 weeks starting from the day the vacancies are advertised, to the interview dates, until when successful teacher interns are likely to report to their schools.
The latest news reaching us Today at newspro.co.ke indicate that the Commission is almost done with the process of posting successful teacher interns to various primary and secondary schools where vacancies were advertised recently.
Teachers successfully recruited on TSC Internship terms should this expect their letters in the next three weeks and report to their work stations within two weeks of receipt of the TSC Internship Posting Letters.
Below is a detailed format of how TSC schedules the entire Internship Recruitment Exercise.
1. Advertisement for Teaching Vacancies
The commission advertises open teaching vacancies both in primary and secondary schools. Advertisement is done through online sources and print media.
2. Sensitisation of Regional TSC Directors
All the Teachers Service Commission Regional Directors undergo a one day online sensitisation process . The directors are inducted on the details and management of the entire 2021/2022 TSC teacher internship recruitment exercise.
Online Applications of Open Vacancies by Qualified Teachers – before the stated Deadline
The commission opens its online portal to allow submission of applications from qualified teachers.
Remember: the deadline for online applications to the open TSC teaching vacancies is given during advertisement.
Collection of employment forms by County Directors
In preparation for the interview dates, the TSC County Directors collect the teacher’s employment forms for the vacant schools.
Generation of Applicant’s Merit lists and Sending to Counties
Just after the online application deadline, TSC starts to digital generating all the applicants’ merit lists by County. The exercise will take two days.
The generated list of the applicants is then sent to the relevant TSC County Director on the same day.
The briefing, Vetting of Documents, Selection, and Interviewing Applicants
School administrators, and School Principals will undergo a briefing. The briefing exercise will incorporate the TSC County Directors, TSC Sub-County Directors, Education Officers, and the School Principals.
Vetting of teacher Applicants’ documents, Interviews, and the selection exercise follows immediately after the briefing. This is expected to be from around the same time.
Each County will organize the manner, and the specific dates and venues for document vetting, interviewing, and selection of qualified applicants both for Primary and Secondary Schools.
Filling of TSC employment forms by successful candidates
Successful applicants will start filling in the TSC employment forms
Vetting and handling of complaints at County level
The Commission will give a 5-day window to allow for vetting and handling of any arising complaints during the selection/interview exercise. The process takes place at the TSC County Directors and will end on the
Receiving of documents at the TSC Headquarters
Successful applicants’ copy of documents, interview sheet and selection data files, and Employment forms will be sent to the TSC headquarters for verification.
Verification of results at the TSC Headquarters.
TSC will then undertake the verification of all the results from the recruitment exercise from the 12h of .
Reporting Dates of teachers to schools – Wednesday 1st of September 2021
Successful applicants will report to their respective work stations upon successful posting. The teachers will be given 21 days open window within which to report to the school.
Sending reporting status to TSC Headquarters by County Directors
The TSC County Directors will be given time to send feedback to the TSC headquarters on the status of reporting for teachers in their respective schools.