1. Teachers to pay for training organized by their employer? Which other employer charges it’s employees for it’s own programs?
2. How do you start charging a teacher 6000 for a program you are supposed to actually finance? I thought every employee has a duty to improve it’s workforce?
3. How can TSC come up with modules that run for 30yrs? Is this not a way of denying teachers time to live their lives? This same employer came up with a policy against school based learning for teachers claiming that it was consuming time for serving the Kenyan child. Now miraculously, it’s coming up with modules that will be learnt for 30yrs.
4. What is the immediate benefit to the teacher once he or she completes a module? In the military, after a given training one qualifies for promotion to the next rank. Is there any correlation between training and promotions?
5. Which and where are these modules? What is the school of knowledge in each module? How relevant is it to the teacher and his/her career? By now this information should be in the public domain or at least known within teacher circles.
6. How does TSC come up with such serious measures without listening to and involving the teachers through their negotiating platforms, the unions?
This behavior from TSC is the very reason why by now teachers should be pushing to have a professional self-regulating body for teachers so as to scrap some roles from TSC. TSC should just be an employer not a regulator of matters education.
7. Someone has seen an easy kill, the same way someone came up with KEWOTA sasa wameleta TPD. The teachers payslips cannot be stretched any longer.
8. Each year, TSC has trainings for it’s secretariat staff for free. It even pays for their subsistence halafu the same institutions wants to charge the teachers who are also it’s staff. This is a joke taken too far.
