TSC Goes After School Principals
21 February 2021 - 1:49 pm A signpost showing the Teachers Service Commission office. TSC is mandated with hiring teachers in Kenya
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A report by
Daily Nation on Sunday, February 21, indicated that the commission was targeting five high school principals from Bomet County alone.
The commission said it was widening its net to target unscrupulous school heads who continue to cook books and steal from the government.
The County Teachers Service Commission (TSC) boss Charles Nyauma indicated that the teachers would face disciplinary action for misusing the funds. The principals files have been taken to the commission for appropriate action, stated Nyauma.
The union boss claimed that TSC had opted not to respond to the request, “but is instead attempting to revoke our recognition agreement to render Knut irrelevant in the next CBA”.
“Despite correspondence dating back to 2019 urging TSC to formally commence and conclude negotiations with us, including the last correspondence, has been copied to you, (there has been) zero response,” the letter reads.
Sossion further claims that the union is aware that TSC had already consulted with the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) on new CBA proposals, but had opted to remain quiet on engaging with union members.
“We are fully aware that TSC has forwarded salary proposals to SRC without formally commencing negotiations with Knut, and the said proposals are currently being analysed by SRC,” Sossion says.
THE STANDARD By
Augustine Oduor |
February 4th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
Education CS Prof. George Magoha addresses the press on January 20, 2021, at Our Lady of Fatima Secondary School in Kariobangi, Nairobi. [Edward Kiplimo, Standard]
The Ministry of Education is proposing major changes to the law that may see it snatch the role of managing public schools from head teachers.
The ministry wants the Basic Education Act amended to redefine a ‘manager’ in far reaching changes that may effectively see it hire a new set of persons to manage schools.
The move is likely to spark a fresh storm between the ministry and the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) if the proposed managers take over supervision of schools.
KUPPET Demands Guns For Teachers, Boarding Schools Abolished
The government should provide security training and guns for teachers deployed in volatile regions of the country, the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) has demanded.
According to acting KUPPET Secretary General Moses Nthurima, armed teachers would be better poised to deal with attackers.
“We are repeating this demand that in the pockets of insecurity, teachers must be trained and provided with guns. You cannot confront a gunman with chalk. When we take a teacher to insecurity prone areas that teacher will constantly live in fear. But if the gun is hanging on his back even bandits will know that teacher is a no-go zone and they will take a second thought before making any mistake,” said Nthurima.
THE STANDARD By
Augustine Oduor |
January 29th 2021 at 01:05:00 GMT +0300
Fire fighters put out off fire in a dormitory at Kisumu Boys High School on Tuesday. The police are yet to establish the cause of the fire. [Collins Oduor, Standard]
Task forces called for streamlining of boarding schools and establishing guidance and counselling departments.
The government is in a spot for failing to fully implement task force reports that proposed solutions to end student’s unrest.
In a detailed account, Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet) exposed government’s laxity to act on perennial fires that have led to loss of property and learning time.