Admission Of Students For TTC Certificate Courses Halted

Just last year, over 100,000 KCSE candidates hoped to pursue teaching at diploma and certificate levels. This happened after the ministry of education lowered the entry requirements for P1 teachers, from C- to D+.

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This year, however, more than 20,000 slots are expected to fall vacant across all primary teacher-training colleges. The government has halted all admissions to this level, in phasing out P1 teachers.

13,000 students would have been admitted into the existing 31 public training colleges, and another 3,000 across the newly-established institutions.

Private colleges have about 4,000 spaces available for students across 85 institutions.

Although no official communication has been made to the colleges, Ministry officials have made it clear that no further admissions will take place.

Ministry of Education announced that there will be no admissions to P1 training classes this year, saying the move is aimed at making arrangements to take in diploma students next year.

While explaining the move, Basic Education Principal Secretary Belio Kipsang said that the ministry stopped the certificates admissions to allow diploma students to join the colleges for training next year.

The move is so as to enable the ministry to prepare accordingly for the ongoing national roll-out of the Competency-Based Curriculum.

Belio said that as the Government rolls out the new curriculum, teacher training must also be reformed to match the expectation.

The freeze in admissions means that the TTCs will run for nearly two years with just one cohort of students — the current second-year students who were admitted in 2018.

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Vacancies in TTCs are normally advertised in April and selections are undertaken in September.

Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) Chief Executive Officer Jwan Julius, said Basic Education Curriculum framework had been developed, scope and sequence done and designs developed. “We are now editing the designs,” said Jwan.

It emerged that the freeze on intake is meant to allow the KICD to complete the editing of the design as TSC trains the tutors who will teach the diploma students.

The time will also allow the Ministry to prepare infrastructure in the TTCs ahead of admissions.

In Conclusion,

As an individual with a dream of pursuing primary teacher education, it is important to ensure that you meet the minimum requirement for admission to the training college of your choice.

Once you have ensured you meet all the minimum requirements the next puzzle is to look for a good teacher training college that will give you with appropriate skills and Knowledge.

The Standard