By: Abdul Martins Foday Amara
The Teaching Service Commission (TSC) has launched a Teacher Management Information System (TMIS) that enables teachers and education partners to share teacher management issues and its related matters. The TMIS entails three key portals, which are: the Admin (which is exclusively set aside for TSC staff), Teachers, and Partners portals.
This new system has allowed each department at the TSC to have a module in the system, except the Corporate Department. To ensure its success, below are the new changes that the commission has decided to make: No Ed-form is required anymore for teacher recruitment and replacement, and all teacher matters, including retirement, death, and resignation, will be done online henceforth. Also, requests for study, maternity, and other long-term leave, promotion, and re-assessment will be made online.
Only registered and licensed teachers are now entitled to recruitment and payroll. The commission emphasized that this is a law, not a decision the TSC makes.
Therefore, the Teaching Service Commission of Sierra Leone admonishes every pin-coded and non-pin-coded teacher to register and write an exam. The recruitment quota per district is now determined by the number of registered teachers in a particular district. On this note, the TSC is now asking all teachers, especially non-pin coded ones, to reach their various offices nationwide from Monday for registration and then prepare for the exam. This means no registration and no recruitment. According to the Teaching Service Commission (TSC), priority will be given to teachers whose information the commission had processed for replacement last year and this year. It is therefore urging all concerned teachers to come to the office as early as Monday, 25th March 2024, to do the needful.
Finally, “As we end our training today in Freetown, all TSC DOs and ITOs will write the same exam your teachers are writing, but not the same questions. Questions are based on the certificate we hold. "We can't be asking teachers to write an exam when we as staff have not written the same exam", Chairman Lans Keifela said. The Chairman ended by assuring all present that the 2024 recruitment would take place in May this year.
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