An advertisement posted on Facebook (see below) claims that Kenya’s Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has advertised 12,000 internship positions.
Background
The post says that TSC is recruiting 4,000 teacher interns to fill positions at the primary school level and a further 8,000 interns for secondary schools under a one-year programme.
Interested candidates are asked to submit their applications on the TSC website by November 2, 2020. While no indication of salaries is offered, the advert says the teacher interns are entitled to a monthly stipend of KSh 15,000 for those in primary school and KSh 20,000 for secondary school level.
Verification
However, TSC has distanced itself from the advert using its official Twitter and Facebook accounts.
“We wish to advise teachers and the general public to ignore a fake jobs advert circulating on social media and purporting that there are 12,000 intern jobs. TSC has not placed any advert anywhere. We will communicate through our official channels when new job vacancies arise,” TSC’s head of corporate affairs, Beatrice Wababu, said through the agency’s official Facebook account on October 20.
The TSC website and social media pages — where the commission posts its jobs and other official communication — carries no such announcement.
Verdict
PesaCheck has looked into an advertisement alleged to have been posted by the TSC advertising 12,000 internship positions across the country and finds it to be FAKE.
This story was produced by PesaCheck in partnership with Code for Africa’s iLAB data journalism programme, with support from Deutsche Welle Akademie.
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