The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) is pushing for the blacklisting of 30 teachers from the register for various offences.
The blacklisted teachers will be unable to secure teaching jobs anywhere in the future.
Most offences in this regard are sexual offences such as defilement.
Beatrice Wababu, TSC head of communications, revealed that the list of teachers to be blacklisted is in the approvals stage, and once the Chief Executive Officer Nancy Macharia ratifies it will be published
Ms. Wababu said, “The relevant team is compiling the list. Once it has undergone the necessary approvals, it will be officially gazetted.”
The consequences to be faced by the 30 teachers are pursuant to Section 30 of the TSC Act. It is only the commission that can reinstate them.
The law reads in part, “A teacher whose name has been removed from the register shall cease to be a teacher for purposes of this Act, with effect from the date of such removal.”
Between September 14 and September 25, the 30 teachers were notified of the commission’s intention to eliminate them from the register.
After case hearings concerning the teachers, the disciplinary committee overseeing the cases found the teachers guilty of their alleged offences.
36 teachers were dismissed and eliminated from the register over indiscipline by the commission last year in October. The commission also gazetted the list of the 71 teachers who were deregistered in 2017 and 2018.
Currently, TSC has 8,551 new registered teachers, who recently graduated from training colleges and universities.
The commission reports that the country has over 317,069 registered but unemployed teachers. However, it has employing teachers annually to mitigate teacher shortage and enhance learning.
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