TSC Plans To Export Teachers
TSC Plans To Export Teachers
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) is negotiating on behalf of tutors seeking employment overseas with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Labor, among other relevant parties.
According to TSC Director of Legal Calvin Anyuor, Kenya has an excess of teachers, therefore getting them a chance overseas will be wise.Because we have more instructors than we need in the nation, we have begun collaborating with important stakeholders to export the teaching resource.
“We are engaging Ministry of Labour, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other relevant government agencies so that our teachers can go and teach English in Germany,” Anyuor said.
Anyuor added that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is working to secure the market in various countries for the teachers in the country.This comes as a relief for thousands of teachers who are yet to secure employment from TSC.
The Commission’s big role will be to ensure teachers coming out of various training colleges have the right quality of education.
The question is, what is the quality of the teacher you are exporting to Germany? Once he lands in Germany, is he able to deliver in a manner that can withstands the rigors of education in the world?” Anyuor posed.
“When it comes to teaching, the stakeholders want extremely low grades, but when it comes to Medicine or Law the grades are high and no one is complaining. So, you want the quality of the teacher to be low but you want this teacher to produce an engineer or a pilot,” he added.
TSC currently employs over 400,000 instructors, and by the next year, the Commission hopes to hire 46,000 teacher interns on permanent, pensionable conditions. The two-year contract arrangement for the interns is almost over.
