Admission for P1 certificate teachers
April 5, 2017
The intake for students to train as P1 teachers begins on April 10, according to the Government of Kenya. Qualified candidates are requested to apply for the pre-service training in various teacher colleges across the country. This Message was contained in a circular issued by the Director of Basic Education in the Ministry of Education. All candidates wishing to join teacher training colleges are requested to present their education certificates at zonal education offices. The selection is free of charge. The deadline of submission of application has been set as April 29.
The country has a deficit of thousands of teachers, and although more are trained every year, they end up with no jobs due to shortage of funds to absorb them into the profession. In January, the Government sacked more than 10,000 relief teachers who had been hired to stand in for striking teachers in a salary dispute with the Government. The current recruitment will see deaf and blind applicants get admitted with lower grades compared their able bodied counterparts.
The prospective P1 teachers should have attained a Mean Grade of C in the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations. Visually and hearing impaired as well as totally deaf and blind applicants should have attained a mean grade of C- in the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education Examinations. The Government has issued guideline indicating that Teachers without the professional certificates would not be allowed to teach even if they graduated and were issued with a TSC number. Those who were already employed would have been forced to undergo the mandatory professional training whose modules were being developed to acquire the certificate.