Headteachers admit posted JSS interns
Headteachers admit posted JSS interns
Headteachers admit posted JSS interns
Primary Headteachers Have Began Accepting JSS Interns Posted There . Since receiving their posting letters, intern teachers assigned to junior secondary schools (JSS) and primary schools have started reporting to their respective institutions.
Today, many of these interns were welcomed by elementary school principals who are also in charge of junior secondary schools. To ensure that their salaries are paid out right away, those who have reported have finished and submitted their online records to the Teachers Service Commission (TSC).
TSC has been under fire for taking so long to pay the intern teachers’ salary . This was after they were posted in January. As a result of many instructors going for months without getting their stipends. Speculations were that the government was experiencing financial difficulties . But now that things are under control, TSC is required to pay the newly posted intern teachers on schedule.
The commission issued a call for applications in July for 20,000 teacher internship slots. Out of these, 18,000 intern teachers will be placed in junior high schools. The remaining 2,000 will assist in implementing the new curricula in elementary schools. Up to July 18th, the online application window was available for two weeks.
Junior secondary school intern instructors will be in charge of instructing a variety of subjects from the curriculum . Consequently will be paid Sh20,000 a month in stipends.
Primary school teachers would receive Sh15,000 per year. However, there will be other deductions for these teachers as well. Such as a Sh360 NSSF deduction, a 1.5% housing levy, and NHIF contributions.
Before being evaluated for permanent and pensionable terms, the teachers will work under a one-year contract that can be extended for an additional year. According to Dr. Nancy Macharia, the CEO of TSC, the commission hopes to hire no less than 25,000 teachers annually over the course of the following five years, pending funding.
Since TSC was not given funds in the July budget to determine the status of the existing intern instructors who were posted in January, their future is still unknown.