The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) on Friday, October 4, axed 36 teachers over illicit relationships the instructors had with the learners.
TSC Boss Nancy Macharia in a gazette notice said the teachers were removed from the TSC register between March and June 2019. Macharia added that the teachers would not be allowed to teach in any school, including private schools.
The gazette notice further read: “A person shall not engage in the teaching service unless such a person is registered.”
In September, the teachers' commission sent all its commissioners to six regions across the country to hear disciplinary cases against teachers.
The dispatch of the commissioners came after 51 teachers were reported to have engaged in illicit relationships with learners and were facing disciplinary action from the commission.
Indiscipline cases among teachers totaling 1,000 were reported in 2019. Six hundred of the cases were reported across the 47 counties while the remaining 400 were registered at the TSC headquarters.
A majority of the disciplinary cases featured teachers who were reported for engaging in illicit relationships with learners in both primary and secondary schools.
Regulations of the teachers' employer require that the cases be handled within three months. The commission had handled 750 cases with 250 others still pending.
On average, most cases were determined within a period of two to three months as compared to six months to one year previously.
According to statistics from the Ministry of Education, more than 11,000 teenage girls in primary and secondary schools were pregnant during last year’s national exams.
