Hiring of Teachers by School Boards (Paperback)

Hiring of teachers by BOGs for Kenya secondary schools had opened a heated debate which necesitated a research to be conducted to seek for the experts' views on the same.This book presents the headteachers' and teachers' views on hiring of teachers by School Boards. The results revealed that most (70%) of the headteachers had not been trained on Human Resource Development(HRD) which covers the concepts of recruitment and selection of teachers and that recruitment and selection processes in schools were not satisfactory. Consideration of candidates' age, interest in co- curricular activities and teaching experience were reported as unnecessary and that induction of BoGs' teachers' selection panel members was not adequate. The researcher recommended that eadteachers/teachers and BoG members be trained in HRD, schools to provide registers where the applicants who submited their applications would sign to avoid cases where the applicants with better/ higher qualifications than the favoured applicants were discarded and that other than advertisement through the local newspapers only, other modes of advertisement should be sought.