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Article 237 · Part 3—Teachers Service Commission

Teachers Service Commission

In plain English

This Article creates the Teachers Service Commission. It registers, recruits, employs, assigns, promotes, transfers and disciplines teachers, and can end their employment. It also reviews teaching standards, teacher supply and demand, and advises the national government.

The official text

(1) There is established the Teachers Service Commission.

(2) The functions of the Commission are—

(a) to register trained teachers;

(b) to recruit and employ registered teachers;

(c) to assign teachers employed by the Commission for service in any public school or institution;

(d) to promote and transfer teachers;

(e) to exercise disciplinary control over teachers; and

(f) to terminate the employment of teachers.

(3) The Commission shall—

(a) review the standards of education and training of persons entering the teaching service;

(b) review the demand for and the supply of teachers; and

(c) advise the national government on matters relating to the teaching profession.

Summaries and answers are a plain-English guide written by Iam254, not legal advice. The official text is what counts. Official text: Constitution of Kenya, 2010, Kenya Law (National Council for Law Reporting), legislation as at 3 September 2010. It has not been amended since.