Category: Education


  • TSC readies mass replacement of primary school teachers

    The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) is hatching a plan to replace over 7,000 primary school teachers who exited service through natural attrition. TSC will carry out mass replacement exercise in September this year in addition to recruitment of 24,000 junior school intern teachers. The JSS intern recruitment will start on Tuesday, 26th August, 2025 and…

  • School calendar: Term 3 dates, public holidays and exam dates

    Public Holidays; โ˜… Friday, 10th October, 2025Mazingira Day โ€“ 3 days inclusive of weekend โ˜… Monday, 20th October, 2025Mashujaa Day โ€“ 3 days inclusive of weekend Knec National Assessments KPSEA โ€“ 27th October, 2025 30th October, 2025 โ€“ 4 Days KILEA โ€“ 27th October, 2025 31st October, 2025 โ€“ 5 Days KJSEA & KPLEA โ€“…

  • Deployment: 1,436 P1 teachers to report to junior schools in September

    A total of 1,436 P1 teachers will be reporting for work in junior schools beginning September. These are P1 teachers who successfully upgraded there PTE certificates to bachelors degree and have been shortlisted by Teachers Service Commission (TSC) for deployment to junior schools. The Commission published the list of the 1,436 primary school teachers for…

  • TSC circular to all teachers: Terminal benefits on resignation or dismissal

    TEACHERS SERVICE COMMISSION TO: ALL TEACHERS TERMINAL BENEFITS ON RESIGNATION OR DISMISSAL FROM SERVICE In the 2025-2029 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) between the Commission and Teachersโ€™ Unions, it was agreed that teachers who exit service through resignation or dismissal will be entitled to their terminal benefits. Consequently, all teachers who exit service on account of…

  • TSC set to close promotion applications, start teacher recruitment

    The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) will today 25th August 2025 midnight close teacher promotions application exercise. The Commission had on Tuesday 12th August declared 21,313 promotion vacancies for teachers to apply online. In an advert TSC gave teachers two weeks to apply for the slots that covers teachers from job group C1 to D4. According…

  • TSC circular: Roll out of upgrade for P1 teachers with degree & diploma

    TEACHERS SERVICE COMMISSION INTERNAL MEMO TO: ALL TSC REGIONAL DIRECTORS The Commission is committed to ensuring that Junior School level of Education operates at optimum staffing level. To this end, the Commission in liaison with other education stakeholders and with support from World Bank is planning an Upgrade Program for serving PI1 teachers who meet…

  • P1 teachers to be trained for free and deployed to junior schools

    Thousands of primary school teachers will be trained then get deployed to teach in junior secondary schools in a TSC and World Bank partnership move. The Commission has already directed primary school headteachers to furnish it with details of interested teachers who qualify for the training. In an excel template TSC want the teachers name,…

  • TSC to move P1 teachers to C2 after world bank sponsored training

    The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) will promote primary school teachers in job group C1 to C2 after successful completion of three years training under the Teacher Professional Development (TPD). The training which is sponsored by World Bank in partnership with TSC seeks to instill key competencies for P1 teachers to handle junior school classes. The…

  • Knec circular: administration of 2025 SBA written tests Grade 3,4,5,7,8

    To: All (i) Sub County Directors of Education (ii) Heads of Primary Schools 1.0 The Kenya National Examinations Council will upload on the KNEC CBA Portal the following: 1.1 Kenya Early Years Assessment (KEYA) tools for Grade 3 1.2 Kenya Foundation Level Education Assessment (KFLEA) tools for Stagebased pathway 1.3 School Based Assessment tools for…

  • TSC to upgrade P1 teachers to Dip. or Degree based on KCSE grade

    Primary school teachers popularly known as โ€˜P1 teachersโ€™ will be upgraded through training sponsored by World Bank in partnership with TSC. The upgrade program targets PTE teachers who scored C (plain) in KCSE and at least a C+ (plus) in two teaching subjects. The program also targets PTE teachers who scored C+ (plus) and above…