P1 Teachers To Protest: Demand Immediate Employment From TSC – Here’s When.
P1 Teachers To Protest: Demand Immediate Employment From TSC – Here’s When. Primary School Teachers Protest Nationwide, Demand Employment from TSC.
Primary school teachers across the country have launched demonstrations demanding immediate employment by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC).
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The protests follow TSC’s recent advertisement of 20,000 internship teaching positions exclusively for Junior Secondary Schools (JSS), leaving out Primary Teacher Education (PTE) graduates. In previous years, similar recruitment drives would allocate some positions to primary schools, but this time, no slots were provided for primary-level teachers.
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TSC CEO Dr. Nancy Macharia recently stated that primary schools have a surplus of teachers, citing an excess of 18,057 educators. She attributed this to the introduction of the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC), which scrapped Classes 7 and 8, transitioning primary education to end at Grade 6.
To address this surplus, TSC has been promoting primary teachers by deploying them to JSS, special schools, and secondary schools. However, many primary teachers, some of whom have been unemployed since 2008, remain in limbo.
The situation highlights a growing crisis in the education sector, with over 400,000 teachers registered by TSC still awaiting government employment. PTE and DPTE teachers have now organized protests at various sub-county offices to demand inclusion in the Commission’s recruitment plans.
However, not everyone supports their demands. Speaking on KTN TV, Busia Senator Okiya Omtatah argued that employment by the government is not a guaranteed right. He emphasized that the government’s primary role is to provide services and hire only when necessary to meet those needs.
As tensions rise, the protests spotlight the challenges facing Kenya’s education sector and the growing frustration among unemployed teachers seeking meaningful opportunities.
