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The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) is highly centralized; teachers seeking job-related services have to, sometimes travel hundreds of kilometers, to Nairobi to get their problems sorted. Talk of out of the frying pan into the fire.

“We expect the new constitution to improve our terms and conditions of service,” said a teacher we met in one of the far flung districts in Kenya.
Teachers working in remote districts in this country expect the service delivery by TSC to improve. “Coming to Nairobi is a nightmare,” a teacher from Homa Bay told Education Insight. “We get into lot of problems. Some of us get robbed or coned of our money in the streets.”
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A study to discover common work-related stressors and their effect amongst school principals has revealed that pressures stemming from teachers and parents, and to a lesser extent, from work overload are the number one cause of burn-out amongst school heads.

In Kenya anxiety due to the Government’s Public Service Reform Programme (PSRP) that demands radical reforms in schools coupled with minimal administrative support from the education ministry, and poor working conditions, lack of involvement in school decision making by parents, the increased load of paperwork, and lack of resources have all been identified as factors that cause stress on the school heads and college principals. Unfriendly education ministry policies, KNEC standardized assessments, families’ avoidance of responsibilities of their children, peer pressure to undertake continuing education, low salaries, and poor working conditions are other stressors that contribute to school-heads’ burn-out.
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