The Teachers Service Commission released the guidelines for the mass recruitment of teachers in 2023 for primary teachers ahead of school reopening on Monday, January 23.
According to the notice, the applicants will be among the 30,000 teachers who will make the cut, and will be invited by TSC to verify their documents. The same communication will inform the applicants of the interview venue, date and time seven days from the publishing date.
TSC indicated that the verification will be conducted at the sub-county level and overseen by the TSC sub-county directors.
"After the verification exercise, the TSC Sub-County Director shall compile a merit list of all applicants whose documents have been verified," TSC guidelines read in part.
"The merit lists shall be used to recruit teachers and any subsequent recruitment within the financial year," Nancy Macharia-led commission added.
According to TSC, the selection panel will be compelled to consider teachers' length of stay and academic excellence in case applicants tie.
Panel Score Sheet
The TSC selection panel will look at different sections while ranking the teachers; professional P1 qualifications, age and length of stay since qualifying as a teacher.
The total maximum score in each category will be out of 100.
Professional P1 teachers will be required to hit a maximum score of 5 points which will not include their teaching practice.
Teachers with 6 - 28 points will receive a maximum of five scores depending on how they perform during the interview. Those with 29 – 50 points will be rated out of three maximum score and those with 51 - 64 points in P1 qualifications will receive two scores.
In terms of age, the maximum score which will be given by the selection panel is 20. Teachers above 50 years old will be favoured as they will receive the maximum 20 scores depending on their performance before the selection panel. Those below 43 years will receive the least number of five scores.
The scores issued to applicants seeking to join primary schools as teachers will vary depending on their length of stay since qualifying.
Those who have stayed in service since 2010 will be rated out of 70 points, 2011-65 points, 2012-60 points, 2013-55 points, 2014-50 and 2015-45 points.
Those who have stayed in the service since 2016 will be rated out of 40 points, 2017-35 points, 2018- 30 points, 2019-25 points, 2020- 20 points, 2021- 15 points, while those who qualified in 2022 will get 10 points.
Diploma in Primary Teacher Education (CBC Upgrade) will get a maximum score of five.
However, TSC did not indicate the pass mark for selection to join the teachers' service commission ahead of mass recruitment.
