Education improvement proposed by the Raphael Munavu team could be in jeopardy following a stinging rebuke of some of its recommendations by the Teachers Service Commission.
In a brief to the Parliamentary Departmental Committee on Education, the TSC has accused the Presidential Working Party on Education Reforms (PWPER) of trying to emasculate it by stripping it of its supervisory and managerial role over its employees. In the paper presented to the MPs in Mombasa early in the week, TSC Chief Executive Nancy Macharia accused the reforms team of failing to consult with the commission on teacher management issues before compiling its final report as directed by State House.
“And while other key stakeholders were invited to the report validation meeting, TSC was not invited,’’ said Dr Macharia, adding that the team failed to consider the input of the commission on critical matters involving teachers and that it not only failed to visit the employer as it toured other institutions, but it also excluded it from the list of organisations that submitted their memoranda.
If implemented as it is, Dr. Macharia said, the report would strip the commission of its constitutional mandate, deprive it of its independence and require amendments to the constitution through a popular initiative.