TSC MAKES A CLARIFICATION ON THE TEACHERS EMPLOYED AS INTERNS
The Teachers Service Commission in a statement made by the Head of Corporate Communication B. Wababu has made a clarification that the 8141 intern teachers have only been put on payroll but not on Permanent and Pensionable terms as reported by the standard newspaper.
The 8141 interns will serve for a period of 12 months as per their terms and condition of service. According to Mrs. Beatrice Wababu,the remaining interns will be put on the payroll once their documents have been processed. She regretted that the Story has appearing in the Standard Newspaper today,Page 12 on Education column is misleading and incorrect.
*”There could have been a misinterpretation of the information leading to the report,”she said.* Meanwhile,in a separate post,TSC has commended teachers for their professionalism and continued work to ensuring that the fight against Covid-19 succeeding.
On their Facebook pages, they have also included the message that they are sorry for that information that was misinterpreted by the Standard newspaper writers. They mentioned that,the internship teachers were only put on payroll.
This is what was stated in in the newspaper:
The head of Tsc Beatrice Wababu today said that 8, 141 intern teachers have been hired and ate now finally on the Teachers Service Commission payroll, the employer has said.
She also declared that 8, 920 teachers have so far been recruited on permanent and pensionable terms. The massage from the teachers’ employer has communicated that all the hired internship teachers have been put on payroll and will be earning salaries.
“All these teachers have been already getting salaries and no one has been left out,” said TSC head of communications miss Beatrice Wababu.
The head of TSC also added that a total of 2,159 intern teachers are still being processed and will soon be put on payroll. Some other 149 teachers are being processed for the permanent and pensionable terms.
The Teachers Commission service had a target of hiring 10,300 internship teachers and some 9, 069 on permanent and pensionable terms.
“Some of these pending cases have either one or two documents missing or were not properly filed. Once that is done we shall have all of them on payroll,” announced Beatrice
Recruitment of intern teachers was being carried out from the counties and some documents may have been misplaced in the process, it emerged.Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet) Secretary General Akello Misori asked TSC to initiate proper remuneration package for intern teachers
.“Kuppet still does not understand why intern teachers are paid a paltry Sh15, 000 when public servant interns earn Sh25,000,” said Misori.It emerged that broken down, the interns pay include Sh1, 200 for mandatory personal accident cover.
Another Sh3, 000 is sent to the Higher Education Loans Board and Sh800 sent to the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF).Some Sh600 is sent to the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) and another Sh1, 741 deducted towards Pay as You Earn (Paye).Intern teachers posted to primary schools earn an average of Sh10, 000, which comes down to about Sh6, 000 after Paye deductions of some Sh1, 116 and the contributions to the NHIF and NSSF.Misori said Kuppet is engaging TSC on the matter.
“We are in talks with the TSC to understand how this is being implemented,” said Misori.Senate Education Committee chaired by Bomet Senator Christopher Langat has summoned TSC leadership to clarify the nature of internship contracts.Commission Chairperson Lydia Nzomo and CEO Nancy Macharia were set appear before the Senate Education Committee before lock down occasioned by coronavirus.TSC had lobbied MPs to allocate more cash for teacher recruitment, saying the current 305,568 teachers are not enough to handle the surge in enrollment.
TSC argued that an additional 104,087 teachers are needed to ease the huge workload occasioned by the 100-peer cent transition.
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