The Teachers Service Commission has today, May 17, 2021, kicked off the pilot phase of biometric registration and validation of teachers in the country.
TSC Director Ibrahim Mumin revealed that the first phase will register teachers from 143 institutions within Uasin Gishu, Homa Bay, Bungoma, Nyeri, Kilifi, Kitui and Garissa counties.
While oversighting the launch of the process at Nyeri Boys High School, Mumin stated that there is a need to keep up to date records of teachers in the country.
The director argued that the process will help the government make better informed decisions with regards to tutors in the country.
In April this year, TSC revealed that there are 224,075 primary school teachers in 22,821 public schools; 117,120 secondary school teachers in 9,043 public secondary schools and teacher training colleges.
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All these, serving a student population of 8, 071,662 in primary schools and 2,761,769 in public secondary schools and teacher training colleges.
Teachers are required to provide their fingerprints, passport size photo, and have their personal employment data validated.
The director insisted that the data collected will aid in the verification of teachers’ distribution and utilization, validation of enrolment in public schools and also validation teachers’ biodata and employment records while still establishing areas of specialization.
Mumin stated that the process was a multi-agency task and will aid the government in teacher roll out plans.
Some of the data to be verified includes teachers' Identification Cards, letter of appointment, PWD certifications if any, and academic certificates that are run against preloaded data from the IPPD.
