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MINISTRY OF EDUCATION-TSC INTERVIEW QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

TSC Officials, Duties and Qualifications Interview Questions

THE NATIONAL GOALS OF EDUCATION

  • To foster nationalism, patriotism and promote national unity
  • To promote social economic, technological, and industrial needs for national development
  • To provide individual development and self fulfilment.
  • To promote social equality and responsibility
  • To promote sound moral and religious values
  • To promote respect for and development of Kenya’s rich and varied culture
  • To promote international consciousness and a positive attitude towards other nations
  • To promote a positive attitude towards good health and the environment.

ROLE OF EDUCATION IN NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

  • Education is an important exit route from poverty
  • It assists in the production of skilled manpower
  • It increases an individual’s productivity by imparting skills and attitudes that are favourable to work
  • It can reduce social and economic inequality
  • It instils attitudes of cooperation, punctuality, leadership, creativity, and global citizenship
  • It inculcates favourable attitudes in the whole development process by encouraging positive habits among the educated
  • It promotes economic growth by raising people’s income and encouraging investment
  • Evidence from parts of the world indicate that countries with high growth rates are the same ones with most educated manpower

CARDINAL PRINCIPLES FOR EDUCATION FOR ALL (EFA)

Dakar, Senegal April 2000;

  • Free and compulsory primary education of good quality
  • Expansion of early childhood care and to all young children
  • Training and life skills for youths and adults
  • Adult literacy programmes
  • Eliminate gender disparities in access, progression, and completion
  • Improve overall quality of education

MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS (MDGs)

  • Eradicate extreme poverty
  • Achieve universal primary education
  • Promote gender equality and empower women
  • Reduce child mortality
  • Improve maternal health
  • Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
  • Ensure environmental sustainability
  • Develop a global partnership for development

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

They build on the foundation laid by the MDGs, and sought to complete the unfinished business of the MDGs and respond to new challenges. They SDGs

  • End poverty in all its forms
  • End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
  • Ensure health lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
  • Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
  • Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
  • Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
  • Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all
  • Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
  • Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive, and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
  • Reduce inequality within and among countries
  • Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable
  • Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
  • Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
  • Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas, and marine resources for sustainable development
  • Protect, restore, and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
  • Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable, and inclusive institutions at all levels
  • Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.

 THE TSC LOGO AND EXPLANATION

  • The hands- symbolize TSC’s authority in teaching service. The embracing form of hands is a sign of its warmth and compassion for employees
  • The motor Board- duty to review teaching standards, training, fitness to reach prospective teachers
  • Map of Kenya- TSC’s area of jurisdiction.
  • The black board- the teaching service
  • The Book- teachers register, TSC’s policies, code Act, |Records, Knowledge, and information
  • TSC letters and sun rays- supply of TSC teachers to all public schools in Kenya
  • The circle and platform- the scroll with TSC motto represents the unity of purpose in its mission, flexibility and adaptability to changes
  • Black- National aspiration
  • Gold- Leader in teaching service
  • Blue- TSC’s vision as in “the sky is the limit”

TSC |VISION

Effective service for quality teaching

MISSION

To establish and maintain a sufficient professional teaching service for educational institutions responsive to environmental changes

 EDUCATION TRENDS SINCE INDEPENDENCE

Education trends refer to policy direction and changes that the education sector goes through from time to time.

The government has addressed challenges facing education using the following strategies;

  1. Educational commissions– comprise a group of people who have expertise in various fields appointed by the government to carry out a general overview. E.g. Ominde & Koech commissions.
  2. Education committee– appointed by the government to look into specific aspects of education and make recommendation. E.g. Gachathi committee
  3. Presidential working party– appointed by the president to look into a particular aspect of education e.g. Mackay & Kamunge presidential working parties.
  4. Presidential degree– is an official order or directive issued by the president e.g. provision of free milk to all children in primary schools in Kenya
  5. Task force– a group formed for a short period of time to deal with a particular problem. In education, it’s usually appointed by the cabinet secretary. E.g. Odhiambo & the Kilemi Mwiria task forces.
  6. Sessional Papers– professional paper prepared by the responsible ministry to address inadequacies in the sector and come up with a policy framework to address these issues e.g.
  7. Sessional paper No. 10 of 1965 formally adopted the Ominde report and identified three urgent interventions; eradication of poverty, illiteracy, and diseases
  8. Sessional paper No. 6 of 1988 which adopted the Kamunge report. It laid emphasis on cost sharing in education
  9. Sessional paper No. 1 of 2005 which was based on the recommendations of the National conference on Education training and research of November 2003. It provides for the integration of secondary education as part of basic education cycle and established two centres of excellence in every district.
  10. Sessional paper No. 14 of 2012- provided the establishment of education standards and quality assurance and accreditation commission (ESQAC), National education board (NEB), county education board (CEB) and reforming curricular to align it with the provisions of the 2010 Constitution and the aspirations of Kenya vision 2030.

CHAPTER SIX OF CONSTITUTION OF KENYA, 2010

Cap 73 (2) Guiding principles of leadership and integrity

  • Selection on the basis of personal integrity, competence and suitability, or election in a free and fair election
  • Objectivity and impartiality in decision making, and in ensuring that decisions are not influenced by nepotism, favouritism, and other improper motives or corrupt practices.
  • Selfless service based solely on the public interest, demonstrated by honesty in the execution of public duties and the declaration of any interest that may conflict with public duties
  • Accountability to the public for decisions and actions
  • Discipline and commitment in the service to the people.

CHAPTER FOUR OF CONSTITUTION OF KENYA, 2010

Cap 53 (1) CHILDREN’S RIGHT

Every child has a right to:

  • To a name and nationality from birth
  • To free and compulsory basic education
  • To basic nutrition, shelter, and health care
  • To be protected from abuse, neglect, harmful cultural practices and punishment, and hazardous and exploitative labour
  • To parental care and protection, which includes equal responsibility of the mother and father to provide for the child, whether they are married to each other or not
  • Not to be detained, except as a measure of last resort, and when detained, to be held-
  • For the shortest appropriate period of time
  • Separate from adults and in conditions that take account of the child’s sex and age.

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