The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) intends to create a data bank of interviewed teachers to make it easier to replace those who leave the service during the 2022–2023 fiscal year for secondary Schools
TSC listed approximately 219,311 unemployed secondary school teachers in mid-July 2022. These teachers had applied for only 4, 000 new secondary school openings, and only five candidates (teachers) were shortlisted for each opening.
The Board of Management would be expected to create a vacancy-specific merit list from the list of five candidates who were shortlisted and interviewed for each opening at every secondary school in the nation
The merit list shall be used in TSC subsequent and similar recruitment in the County, as per the recruitment guidelines for post-primary teachers on permanent and pensionable terms published under Circular No. 9/2022 dated June 30, 2022, by the Commission’s Secretary and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Dr. Nancy Macharia
“The Merit List shall be used in the subsequent recruitment processes involving a similar vacancy in the County within the financial year or as directed by the Commission from time to time,” said Dr. Macharia in the Circular
As a result, candidates in the data bank will be given preference in any upcoming hiring throughout the 2022–2023 fiscal year, which runs from July 2022 to June 2023
TSC won’t have to undergo a new hiring process, as was the case previously, and the decision will drastically reduce the costs associated with the recruitment process.
When the Commission replaces instructors who leave the service due to natural attrition, teachers who were shortlisted and who attended the recently completed interviews will be given priority
Following the creation of the vacancy-specific merit list, the school selection panels are required to submit the list to the TSC Sub-County Directors. These directors will then submit the list to the County Directors for compilation of the subject-specific merit list, creating a databank for the County that will be used to fill subject-specific vacancies in follow-up recruitment processes during the FY that arise within the County.
“During the interview, the school selection panel shall develop a vacancy–specific Merit List. The Merit List shall be used in the subsequent recruitment processes involving a similar vacancy in the County within the financial year or as directed by the Commission from time to time,” instructed Dr. Macharia.
The five candidates who were shortlisted for each advertised position and whose names are on the School Selection Panel’s vacancy-specific merit list, which is utilized to create subject-specific merit list data banks, are taken from applicant lists created by the TSC system.
