2023 TSC Recruitment Vacancies; Reprieve for P1 Teachers as TSC Announces the Advertisement of the Following Teaching Vacancies (Primary Schools)
TSC News Today reaching us indicates that the Teachers Service Commission has lined up several teaching vacancies for primary school tutors usually referred to as P1 teachers.
This is a reprieve for most of these tutors who have been left in the cold for many years hoping against hope especially now that the Commission has rolled out a new competency-based curriculum that they will at some point get employed on permanent and pensionable terms.
TSC Releases new Recruitment Guidelines for the Recruitment of Teachers on Permanent and Pensionable Terms- Primary Schools-2022/2023 Financial Year
Following the announcement of the advertisement of recruitment vacancies for P1 teachers come January 2022, the Teachers Service Commission has released and dispatched January 2023 recruitment guidelines to guide this exercise.
According to the latest TSC decentralized system of employing teachers, regional and county directors of education are expected to collect the details of interested teachers including their TSC numbers, names, id numbers, phone number, year of graduation, and highest qualification level to enable the commission to generate the 2023 TSC merit list that helps in sieving out the most qualified candidates from the pool of applicants.
Applicants must submit their applications to the Secretary Teachers Service Commission through the online platform www.teachersonline.go.ke for the county where a vacancy has been declared.
The selection panel will be expected to exercise the highest degree of transparency and accountability, as stipulated in the Public Officer Ethics Act and TSC Code of Conduct and Ethics (CoCE, 2015).
All applicants MUST be registered teachers as per Section 23(1) of the Teachers Service Commission Act, 2012. Applicants who are not duly registered shall not be considered for recruitment.
Click here to read the complete TSC Recruitment Guidelines 2023.
TSC Recruitment Guidelines 2023
Here is the score sheet for P1 recruitment and employment for teachers with Special Needs;
| P1 QUALIFICATIONS (SORING AREAS) | SCORE |
| 6-27 points | 40 |
| 28-39 points | 35 |
| 40-53 points | 30 |
| 54-64 points | 25 |
| MAXIMUM SCORE | 40 |
| Evidence of internship service | 30 |
| LENGTH OF STAY SINCE GRADUATION | |
| 2017 and before | 40 |
| 2018 | 35 |
| 2019 | 30 |
| 2020 and after | 25 |
| MAXIMUM SCORE | 40 |
| GRAND TOTAL | 100 |
Where applicants tie in their score, the panel is advised to apply the criteria below in the order given:
- Age of the applicant (44-45 years) with previous teaching experience of three years and had not been previously employed by the Commission;
- Give preference to applicants with the highest grade obtained in Teaching Practice;
- Use quality of the academic certificates KCSE;
- Give priority to applicants who graduated earlier.
- Give priority to applicants who had not been previously employed by the Commission.
- Here is the score sheet for the 2023 TSC P1 recruitment
| P1 Qualifications (SORING AREAS) | SCORE |
| 6-14 points | 40 |
| 15-26 points | 35 |
| 27-38 points | 30 |
| 39-52 points | 25 |
| 53-64 points | 20 |
| MAXIMUM SCORE | 40 |
| Evidence of internship service | 30 |
| LENGTH OF STAY SINCE GRADUATION FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NEVER BEEN EMPLOYED BY TSC | |
| 2015 and before | 30 |
| 2016 | 25 |
| 2017 | 20 |
| 2018 | 15 |
| 2019 | 10 |
| 2020 and after | 5 |
| MAXIMUM SCORE | 30 |
| LENGTH OF STAY SINCE GRADUATION FOR THOSE WHO WERE PREVIOUSLY EMPLOYED BY TSC | |
| 2020 and after | 30 |
| 2019-2018 | 25 |
| 2017-2016 | 20 |
| 2015-2014 | 15 |
| 2013-2012 | 10 |
| 2011 and before | 5 |
| MAXIMUM SCORE | 30 |
| GRAND TOTAL | 100 |
Where applicants tie in their score, the panel is advised to apply the criteria below in the order given:
- Age of the applicant (44-45 years) with previous teaching experience of three years and had not previously been employed by the Commission.
- Give preference to applicants with the highest grade obtained in Teaching Practice;
- Use quality of the academic KCSE certificates;
- Give preference to applicants who graduated earlier;
- Give priority to applicants who had not been previously employed by the Commission.