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They, however, completed the process by registering
into Social Health Authority (SHA) by signing into
https://afyayangu.go.ke before taking their new roles.
In the replacements which was on permanent and
pensionable terms, TSC declared 5,862 posts for
primary schools, 21 posts for junior schools and 2,824
posts for secondary schools.
The interns were awarded 50 marks in the
replacement scoresheet regardless of the period
served.
TSC has also been allocated funds for financial year
2025 – 2026 to recruit 18,000 JSS intern teachers.
The recruitment of the 18,000 JSS teachers
on internship terms is likely to start in
November this year.
TSC was also allocated additional funds to
recruit 18,000 teachers on permanent and
pensionable terms for primary and post
primary institutions.
TSC is facing a serious teacher shortage and
currently requires a total of 72,422 teachers to
address the staffing crisis in JSS.
According to outgoing TSC Chief Executive
Officer, Dr Nancy Macharia, the Commission
requires a total of 149,350 teachers to handle
Grade 7, 8 and 9.
TSC CEO Dr. Nancy Macharia
(Center) witnessing distribution of
KCSE papers at Athi River
Subcounty, Machakos County.
Dr Macharia said currently TSC has employed
76,928 teachers in junior secondary representing
51.5% of the requirement.
These are the 20,000 JSS interns. Some 39,550 JSS
teachers who were first recruited on internship
terms have since been confirmed.
Out of them, 8,378 P1 teachers who were deployed
to JSS in 2023 and 2024 and 9,000 JSS teachers
were recruited on permanent and pensionable
terms.
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Dr Macharia said TSC has so far retooled a total of
229,292 teachers on CBC and CBA since April 2019.
She said a total of 60,642 JSS teachers have been
retooled from May 2023 to November 2024.
TSC plans to deploy 6,000 PTE teachers to JSS in
April to help address the teacher shortage.
The Teacher Internship Programme is a one-year
programme meant to equip and sustain
competencies of persons entering the teaching
service.
