TSC has highlighted a plan that will see a stop in employment of Primary Teacher Education. In a document, the commission has charted its plan to scrap off Primary Teachers Education certificate as the least requirement for entry into teaching rehearsal.
Instead, the Teachers Service Commission has substituted it with a Diploma which will be in line with the CBC.
Teachers Service Commission says for a teacher to be hired to teach Grade 1-6 he or she must possess a Diploma in DPTE.
From the Frame work recommendation, the minimum requirement for entry for teaching in Kenya at all heights it has to be a Diploma in education.
However, in the text Teachers Service Commission says it will identify post training upgrade certificate for teachers who completed PTE, SNE, DTE BED, ECDE and DIP ED training courses.
The commission says one must have the lowest Grade as a C plain or equivalent at KCSE and above and a Primary Teachers Education awarded by KNEC.
The teachers will then be acceptable to teach Grade one to three and Grade four to six with a specialization on the foreign and indigenous languages.
According to the Teachers Service Commission data 22,900 P1 teachers are upgrading their skills in various TTCs.
The latest reference are blow to P1 teachers who are eager that the commission will hire them without advancing their PTE certificates.
In the July recruitment of teachers, Teachers Service Commission preferred P1teachers who had upgraded to Diploma.
In the new scoresheet it released, the commission gave ten marks to teachers with indication of Competence-Based Curriculum upgrade certificate during enrolment interviews.
