Time flies with great content! Renew in to keep enjoying all our premium content.
Prime
TSC on the spot as five tribes dominate hiring of junior school tutors
A Junior Secondary School Teacher Zaituni Chepkrui (left) engages a grade class in a Social Studies lesson at the school located in Bomet Central Constituency on September 22, 2023.
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) is on the spot after it emerged that five ethnic communities—Kalenjin, Luhya, Kamba, Kikuyu and Luo—secured more than two-thirds of all newly recruited junior secondary school (JSS) teaching jobs, raising questions over ethnic balance in the appointments.
The revelations emerged before the Senate Committee on National Cohesion, Equal Opportunity and Regional Integration, where the TSC defended itself, citing the availability of qualified applicants per region and subject area as the driving factor.
