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This is a list of all Teachers Service Commission ( TSC) Commissioners in Kenya and their functions. The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) of Kenya is an Independent Commission which was established back in July 1967 through an Act of Parliament to give teachers uniform terms and conditions of service. It’headquartered in Upperhill, Nairobi with offices in all the 47 Counties. There are 9 TSC commissioners who comprise of a chairperson and a vice chairperson. Dr. Lydia Nzomo is the current chairperson while Cleopas Tirop is the vice chairperson. All TSC commissioners serve for a period of 6 years on a full-time basis undertaking the following roles. They are all appointed by the president.

Functions of TSC Commissioners in Kenya

1. Registration of trained teachers.

2. Recruiting and employing registered teachers.

3. Assigning teachers employed by the Commission to serve in any Kenyan public school or institution.

4. Promotion and transfer of teachers.

5. Exercising disciplinary control over teachers.

6. Terminating the employment of teachers.

7. Reviewing the standards of education and training of persons entering the teaching service.

8. Reviewing the demand for and supply of teachers

9. Advising the national government on matters relating to the teaching profession.

This is a quick guide on how to apply and register for a Teachers Service Commission (TSC) number in Kenya as of 2019. This is a unique identification number given to all the qualified teachers in Kenya who have been successfully recruited by the Teachers Service Commission. Having highlighted on this website before on the TSC recruitment requirements for teachers in Kenya, on this post we are going to look at how you can apply and get your TSC number

You should scan and upload the following documents :

1. Original Professional and Academic Certificates
2. National identity card
3. Bank slip

Deposit Ksh 1,055 through Direct Banking or via MPesa. (KSh 1,000 is a non-refundable registration fee of and Ksh 55 for Bank Commission Charge to the TSC). Application for a duplicate certificate will be KSh 2055. All payable to National Bank of Kenya Ltd, Harambee Avenue branch, Account Name: TSC-Secretariat Account Number: 01001005707400. For Mpesa, the Pay Bill Business Number is 625625.

4. One passport size photo
5. KRA pin
6. GP69 form: You can download the GP69 form here. This form must be signed by a government doctor.
7. Certificate of good conduct: Here is a simple guide on how to apply for a certificate of good conduct in Kenya.
8. Entry and work permits for non-Kenyans. They are also required to upload a letter of clearance from the Ministry of Education.
Vetting Committee.

CLICK HERE to start your online registration for a TSC number.

A teacher who meets the requirements for registration will be issued with the certificate of Registration bearing a TSC number within 30 days.

Teachers Service Commission has retracted its earlier communication on more than 3,500 teachers missing April salary as result of not declaring their wealth.

Through short message service (SMS), the commission has assured teachers that it will not stop salary for employees who failed to declare their wealth.

“Please ignore posts circulating on social media purporting that TSC will stop salary for employees who did not comply with the requirements of Declaration of Income Assets and Liabilities.

The Commission will communicate to the affected employees individually when normalcy resumes,” read the message sent to teachers.

Early on, the commission through a circular had indicated that it will stop the employees’ salaries for Non-Compliance from March and April 2020 payrolls.

“Over 3,500 employees (secretariat staff and teachers) did not declare their Wealth within the stipulated deadline. Consequently, the Commission has stopped the employees’ salaries for Non-Compliance from March and April 2020 payrolls,” it reads.

Affected teachers were to be reinstated after confirmation in writing by their immediate supervisor indicating they have been in the service thus been teaching all along and the letter forwarded to the TSC headquarters.

“They are expected to have a confirmation in writing by their immediate supervisor indicating they have been in the service thus been teaching all along and the letter forwarded to the TSC headquarters,”  read part of the circular.

The move comes amid rising concerns over the miscalculated move taken by the commission in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic.

Kuppet

At the same time, the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers, Kuppet, as lashed out at the teachers’ employer for threatening to expunge over 3,500 teachers and staff from the payroll.

“It would be insensitive on the Commission’s part to be punishing teachers during this pandemic when other government departments are issuing temporary reprieves to citizens and foreigners for non-compliance with certain protocols during this crisis. For instance, the government has extended an indefinite extension for foreign nationals whose work permits have expired,” advises Kuppet.

Due to numerous inquiries from parents, teachers, and the 2019 KCSE Candidates on the procedure on how they can download the examinations result-slip online, I present this simple guide.

What you need before starting to download the KCSE result slip:

• Secondary School KNEC Portal Username
• Secondary School KNEC Portal Username
• 2019 KCSE Candidate’s Index Number

Procedure on How to Download the KCSE 2019 KCSE Result Slip Online via KNEC Portal

To access the 2019 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education, KCSE, Result Slip, Go to the Kenya National Examinations Council, KNEC, online portal.

Let me vividly outline the steps:

1. Using a Computer with an internet connection, open your preferred web browser.
2. Enter the following KNEC Portal URL address; https://www.knec-portal.ac.ke/.
3. Sign in to the KNEC portal and enter the School Username and Password.
4. On signing in, you can view the summary of the KCSE Results.
5. Sort Out the results by entering the candidate’s index number in the box titled “FROM INDEX” and “TO INDEX NUMBER.”
6. Then, click on the “View Report” button. Automatically, the result slip with student’s grades will be displayed.
7. Click the “Export function” to download the Result slip in the document format of your choice.

That’s it, you have downloaded the KCSE 2019 Result slip. You can send it wherever you want.

Method to Check KCSE 2019 Results

The 2019 KCSE Candidates can check the results of their examination using a mobile phone or through the internet.

As candidate send ‘ your index number’ followed with ‘KCSE’ to 20076.

You will be charged Kshs.25 above the standard SMS rates for a message sent.

Alternatively, check the KCSE 2019 examinations results free of charge through the KNEC website.

Go to KNEC website through this link https://www.knec-portal.ac.ke/

In the middle of the coronavirus global pandemic, the Teachers Service Commission, TSC, has said that it will not pay over 3,500 teachers and secretariat staff who by the 14th of January 2020 failed to file their wealth declaration.

The commission released the sad news through a circular dated the 14th of April 2020.

In the circular, TSC CEO said, those who did not comply with the government’s directive of filing the wealth declaration online have been removed from the TSC payroll.

However, the commission says that those teachers will only be returned to the payroll after meeting certain conditions.

The conditions stated by TSC includes; writing a letter through the headteacher or principal or supervisor, explaining why they did not follow the instructions set by the government of declaring their wealth.

Besides, their immediate supervisors must confirm that the teachers or the workers are currently active.

The circular reads ” The Headteacher/Principal/Supervisor to confirm in writing, that the employee has been in active service, and /or has been teaching all along”

After writing the letter it should be signed by the supervisor, and forwarded to the teachers service commission headquarters through the county director stroke sub-county director, says the circular.

All the Kenyan government employees were mandated by law to file their wealth declarations online for the year 2017/2019. The procedure entailed declaring individual Income, Assets, and Liabilities by the 31st of December 2019 through the Wealth Declaration online portal.

More than 3,500 TSC employees have faced the wrath of the commission after failing to declare their 2017/2019 Income, Assets, and Liabilities by 31 December, 2019 through the TSC Wealth Declaration online portal.

This will doubtlessly add salt to already injured teachers bearing in mind that covid-19 pandemic has brought the economy to its knees.

In a circular dated April 14, 2020, TSC boss Dr. Nancy Macharia has noted that teachers and secretariat staff who failed to declare wealth will miss April 2020 salary.

“However, over 3,500 employees (secretariat staff and teachers) did not declare their Wealth within the stipulated deadline. Consequently, the Commission has stopped the employees‘ salaries for Non–Compliance from March and April 2020 payrolls.” said TSC CEO Nancy Macharia.

Last year TSC cautioned that teachers who fail to submit or gives false or misleading information is liable to a fine of Kshs. 1,000,000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding (1) one year or both upon conviction.

Reinstatement

For the affected employees to be reinstated back on payroll, the commission has indicated that they have to fulfill of the following requirements:

1.  The respective employees (staff and teachers) are required to write a letter through their immediate Supervisor/Head teacher/Principal to explain why they did not adhere to the instructions to declare their wealth as stipulated in law.
2. The Headteacher/Principal/Supervisor to confirm in writing that the employee has been in active service and /or has been teaching all along.  The letter should be validated and forwarded to TSC Headquarters by the TSC County Director/TSC Sub–County.
3. To fast track reinstatement, the letters be scanned and emailed to TSC  headquarters with a covering letter listing the forwarded cases, by the TSC County Director.
4. The scanned documents should be submitted to the HRM Digits group  emails:– allhrmdigits@gmail.com and copy to hrmdigits@tsc.go.ke and ddippd@tsc.go.ke
5. For reconciliation purposes, indicate on the Remarks column of the  Excel list sent to the County, the status of the specific employee such as; – teaching/in service, retired, resigned, interdicted etc. The updated excel sheet to be submitted to the emails in No. 4.

Below is the copy of the TSC Circular about TSC stoping salaries of over 3,500 Teachers and staff.

 

Circular-TSC-Stops-Salary-of-Over-3500-Teachers

All the Kenyan government employees were mandated by law to file their wealth declarations online for the year 2017/2019. The procedure entailed declaring individual Income, Assets, and Liabilities by the 31st of December 2019 through the Wealth Declaration online portal.

The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) requires you to hold a Certificate of Registration for you to qualify to practice teaching in Kenya. To make it easier for all prospective teachers, TSC introduced an online service platform to replace paper application. Now, all teachers have to do is to check their TSC registration status to know whether they are in the registry.

Even before checking your TSC online system registration status, you should have registered with the TSC portal. At this point, you will have to fill all the information needed by the TSC and scan and attach supporting documents (original copy). Some of the prerequisite documents include;

• A copy of your national identity card
• Certified copies of your professional and academic certificates
• A copy of your KRA pin
• GP69 form
• Bank slip confirming payment of registration fees
• Certificate of good conduct
• One passport size photo For non-Kenyan,
• copies of entry and work permits

If you are an expatriate teacher, you will also have to attach a clearance letter from the Ministry of Education. TSC has provided a teacher’s registration manual to make the process easy. Applicants who give false information will have to pay a fine of up to 100,000 Kenyan Shillings or serve an imprisonment term of twelve months.

How will I know I have been registered to TSC? Once you complete the registration process above, the TSC will review your application and get back to you within 30 days. If your registration is successful, the Teachers Service Commission will grant you the certificate of registration. With this certificate of registration, you can confirm your TSC number registration status.

Also, the TSC publishes a list of all registered teachers annually. On the other hand, if TSC declines your application, the commission will communicate within 30 days giving the reason for declining. Some of the grounds that may make the TSC deny your registration are;

• Lack of the required academic and professional qualifications
• Being of questionable moral character, i.e., you have been convicted of an offence against a learner or a sexual offence
• Having a criminal offence conviction that makes you unfit to be a teacher
• If proven that you engaged in activities considered prejudicial to good governance, peace, or good order in Kenya
• Having a physical or mental illness that makes you incapable of administering your duty as a teacher

How to check TSC registration status online 1. You can check your TSC new teacher online registration status by visiting the TSC online services portal.

2. Click on ‘Registration Status.’

The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) has criticized the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) for tampering with the payroll of teachers by halting the Sacco loan remittances and other third party deductions.

The teachers union had while effecting the move said it would held cushion teachers during the Covid-19 pandemic.

“I call on TSC not to tamper with the payroll of teachers by halting the Sacco loan remittances and other third party deductions, it will hurt both the teachers and the Saccos,” said Knut Secretary General Wilson Sossion in a statement.

Rival union, the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) had proposed that TSC stop statutory/loan deductions during Covid-19 pandemic.

“KUPPET proposal that TSC should stop statutory/loan deductions during the pandemic period, and treated with contempt, unless such proposal originates from SACCO management who are teachers,” said the outspoken unionist.

Defending SACCOs capacity, Sossion said that teachers’ SACCOs in Kenya have turned out to be the best managed and performing on the continent among the teaching service.

“Furthermore, this proposal is not born out of any consultation all teachers’ SACCOs were started by KNUT, and we cannot afford or allow any action that will see them go down. It is our duty and responsibility to defend, protect and continue oiling the wheels of SACCOs and Cooperative movement,” added the unionist.

He said that the Union will not allow the Commission to interfere with the teacher’s, SACCOs arrangement as this will have far reaching repercussions in post Covid-19 era.

“The National Executive Council (NEC) of KNUT, after wide consultations with members and teachers, hereby advices strongly, not to tamper with the payroll in whichever way whatsoever,” Sossion ruled.

SACCOs, he said are economic lifeline of teachers and their dependents, and if their operations are halted through failure to effect loan deductions, the future of teachers and their families will be ruined for ever.

Sossion added that besides being illegal and retrogressive in nature, the proposal by the Commission is bound to roll-back the gains already made by teachers and their SACCOs.

“Moreover, the proposal did not go through the mandatory requirement of consultation and public participation. If teachers are paid full salaries, there is no logical reason to stop effecting statutory/loan or SACCO deductions and other third party deductions,” said the unionist.

The letter is copied to line Cabinet secretaries including Simon Chelugui, (Labour and Social Protection, Prof. George O. Magoha, (Education, Science & Technology) and

Dr. Lydia Nzomo, Chairperson, Teachers Service Commission.

TSC certificate is an important document for any teacher in Kenya. Whether you need employment or promotion you need to have a TSC Certificate. This article guides tutors on how to replace their TSC certificate if it is misplaced, lost, damaged, destroyed or want to change  names. The requirements of TSC certificate replacement have been provided below

What is a TSC Certificate?

A TSC certificate is a document issued by the Teachers Service Commission after completion of teaching studies and upon registration that serves as an official identification document for any government employed teacher in Kenya.

Requirements for TSC Certificate Replacement

• Must pay a non-refundable fee of ksh. 2055
• Bank  payment slip
• ID
• Incase of change of names an affidavit or marriage certificate must be provided
• All applications must be done online. NO PAPER DOCUMENTS

How to apply for TSC Certificate Replacement

• To apply for replacement visit: http://www.teachersonline.go.ke/RegintroDC.aspx
• Enter you ID number and Surname
• Click Next
• Follow the procedure to the end

NOTE: Make sure you have your scanned documents ready because you will need to upload them.

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.