The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has directed that all teachers whether in public or private schools be registered with the commission. The chief executive of the TSC Nancy Macharia has warned against the engagement of deregistered teachers conducting themselves in any activity pertaining teaching or conducting co-curricular activities in schools.
Mrs Macharia has ordered that all teachers’ details, including their TSC numbers and teaching subjects, should be displayed at all times in the principals’/headmasters/mistress’ offices and staff-rooms.
She warned that details of schools that have not complied with the directive should be forwarded by the county directors to TSC’s head of quality assurance and standards after every monitoring activity.
Under article 237(2) (a) of the Constitution, TSC is mandated to register trained teachers. Further, section 23 (2) provides that no person shall engage in the teaching service unless such a person is registered as a teacher.
“Compliance with registration requirements for private schools should be continuously monitored through physical checks, twice every school term,” said Mrs Macharia in a circular to TSC county directors.