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The History of the Teachers Service Commission dates back to the colonial times when teachers were employed by different bodies namely: The Missionaries and the Government for primary school teachers. The African Teachers Service and the Government for both African and European The Kenya National Union of Teachers, established in 1957, an umbrella body of teachers found it unnecessary to have the decentralized system of handling teachers affairs. It therefore made it its priority to press for the employment of teachers by a central body which led to the establishment of the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) under an Act of Parliament (Cap 212) of the Laws of Kenya in 1967. The Teachers Service Commission was mandated by the Act to: Establish and maintain a teachers service adequate to the needs of public schools in (i) recruit, employ, assign, pay, promote, tr Commission by the Code of Regulations for teachers on all public school. conditions as he may impose, any of its powers. (iii) To compile, publish, amend the Code of Regulations for teachers. teachers and render advice to the Minister. to implement the mandate of the Commission as stipulated. departments namely Finance, Staffing a nd Human Resource Management Development and Administration. recommendations of the National Committee on Educational Objectives and Policies of Services provided by the Commission since its inception has seen the teachers contributing a lot to the growth of our country's social, economic and political dimensions. Over time most have contributed largely in shaping the country's education The Act mandated the Commission to carry out the following functions: Recruit and Employ Teachers. Remunerate Teachers Promote Teachers To Compile, Publish, Amend the Code of Regulations for Teachers Its required that the Commission registers all teachers, as provided in the Act stating that: "Any person who, not being a registered teacher, or a person exempted under suffers or permits or employs to teach in any school a person not being a Registered teacher or a person exempted by the Minister shall be guilty of an offence ......" All qualified teachers must be registered by TSC. It is an offence for any teacher to teach The mandate provides for the Commission to recruit and employ teachers which has been the case where TSC posted registered teachers from Public Primary School Teacher Training Colleges to Public Primary Schools th registered teachers from Diploma Colleges and State Universities to public secondary schools and technical institutions, until 1997. Since then the recruitment and employment of teachers is demand driven. However, to ensure that schools have the required teachers the Commission has decentralized the recruitment of teachers. The posts are advertised by TSC in specific stricts for primary school teachers. The or post primary institution. The Commission is mandated to assign and transfer teachers. The teachers are posted The Act mandates Teachers Service Commission to pay teachers salaries and all the related remunerations, subsequently the Commission prepares all the teachers emoluments which currently stands at a wage bill of 44.4 billion per annum. The Act mandates Teachers Service Commission to promote teachers, the Commission Termination of employment is one of the f unctions that encompasses discipline of the teacher. The Code of Regulation for teachers requires that: " Where it comes to the knowledge of an Agent of the Commission and is alleged that a registered teacher should be removed from the register because he/she is an unsuitable person to be a teacher on the The Commission agents investigates cases of teachers disciplinary cases especially before interdiction provide the Commission with all information and documents of major offences tabulated in the Code, the Commission may, as a result of the a function that the Commission has delegated Assignment of Duties - Transferring teachers from one school to another within their Promotions: The PDE's interview applicants for promotion to GATI, JOB GROUP 'L' for deployment as Heads of Department. MEO's and DEO's interview teachers for appointment as heads and Deputy Heads of Primary Schools, from which reports are forwarded to the Commission It is the mandate of the Commission to compile, publish and amend the code of regulations for teachers with the approval of the Minister of Education, the Commission has over time: Compiled and Published a code of regulations for all the teachers employed by the Commission. The code was first published in 1976 and subsequently revised in 1996 The Commission plays the administrational role in the education sector, monitoring the status of teaching and learning, implementing appropriate curriculum and checking the The Commission keeps under review the standards of education, training and fitness to Render advice to the Minister from time to time on various aforesaid matters and on such other matters as may be referred to it by the Minister.