TSC to hire enumerators as teachers' head count dates announced

TSC Biometric Registration: The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) is set to begin hiring enumerators for the biometric registration of all teachers in Kenya.

This comes as teachers’ unions Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) announced that it will back up the exercise. By January 2019, statistics showed that there were 99,381 secondary school teachers against 8,865 institutions and 217,281 tutors against 22,263 primary schools.

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The TSC director of Administration, Abraham Mummim, said the commission will recruit graduate enumerators, who will verify documents, validate the secondary data and capture any other additional information.

“The head of the institution shall also electronically endorse the data collected,” he said. Mr. Mummim said TSC last conducted a teachers’ census in 1999.

TSC deputy secretary Kennedy Mulunda said the registration will help to verify teacher distribution, utilisation and specialisation.

“It will also help us to update the teacher bio data and validate requirements in public schools and training colleges by size and learner enrollment,” he said.

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Dr Mulunda said a pilot exercise will be conducted in May in 143 institutions in seven counties, which are Uasin Gishu, Homa Bay, Bungoma, Nyeri, Kilifi, Kitui and Garissa.

“The different schools will represent different geographical and sociocultural spheres,” he said. TSC Biometric Registration.

Additional reporting adapted from the Daily Nation.