TSC Portal _ Teachers Online Login, HRMIS & Jobs

If you teach in Kenya, or you want to teach, you will use a TSC portal sooner or later. TSC is the Teachers Service Commission. It registers teachers, hires them, keeps their records, and pays them. Most of that work now happens online, and each job has its own portal. This page tells you which portal does what, how to log in, and how to fix the problems people hit most often.

Here is the short answer. Use Teachers Online at teachersonline.tsc.go.ke to register as a teacher and to apply for advertised jobs. Use the HRMIS portal to view and update your teacher record. Use TPAD for your yearly appraisal. Use the online payslip service to view and print your payslips. The main TSC website, tsc.go.ke, links to all of them and carries the official adverts and notices.

Quick facts

Employer: Teachers Service Commission (TSC), Kenya
Main website: tsc.go.ke
Jobs and registration: teachersonline.tsc.go.ke
Teacher records: HRMIS portal
Appraisals: TPAD
Payslips: online payslip service, linked from the TSC website
Current recruitment: 7,720 replacement posts, applications opened 10 November 2026 and close at midnight on 23 November 2026

Teachers Online: jobs and registration

Teachers Online is the portal most people mean when they say TSC portal. You find it at teachersonline.tsc.go.ke. This is where a trained teacher registers with TSC and gets a registration number. It is also where you apply when TSC advertises teaching jobs.

The steps are simple. Create an account with your ID number and a working email address, fill in your personal details, add your education history, and upload clear scans of your certificates. Check every entry before you submit. A wrong ID number or a blurry certificate scan causes delays that are easy to avoid.

If you already have an account, our step-by-step Teachers Online login help walks you through sign in, registration, and password reset in plain language.

Current recruitment: 7,720 replacement posts

TSC advertised 7,720 replacement teaching posts on Tuesday 10 November 2026. These posts replace teachers who left through natural attrition. The posts are permanent and pensionable.

The split is clear. Primary schools get 5,609 posts. Junior schools get 25 posts. Secondary schools get 2,086 posts. That adds up to 7,720 posts in total.

Applications opened on 10 November 2026. They close at midnight on Monday 23 November 2026. Apply online only, through the Careers section on tsc.go.ke or through teachersonline.tsc.go.ke. TSC does not accept manual applications. If you fill in more than one application form, TSC will disqualify you, so pick the post you qualify for and submit one clean application.

The exercise is free. TSC warns teachers against fraudsters who demand money and claim they can secure a post. No one can sell you a TSC job. If someone asks you for money, walk away and report it. You can also read how to check your TSC application status and find merit lists once you have applied, so you know what happens next.

HRMIS portal: your teacher record

HRMIS stands for Human Resource Management Information System. Think of it as your official teacher file, held online. TSC uses it to store your employment details, your station, your grade, and your service history.

Why should you care? Because errors in that record affect real things. A wrong date, a wrong school, or a missing entry can slow down a transfer, a promotion case, or a pay change. Log in from time to time and read your record the way you would read a bank statement. Spot a mistake early and it is much easier to fix.

Our separate page on the TSC HRMIS portal and what teachers use it for explains the main sections in simple terms.

TPAD: teacher appraisals

TPAD is the Teacher Performance Appraisal and Development system. Every teacher in a public school completes an appraisal each year. You set targets, you record evidence as the term goes on, and your appraiser rates you against the set standards.

Do not leave TPAD to the last week. Add your evidence as you go. A lesson plan here, a record of a parents meeting there, a note on a learner project. Small entries through the term beat a rushed pile at the end, and your appraisal discussion goes better when the record is already complete.

Online payslips

Your payslip is available online each month. Log in to the payslip service linked from the TSC website, pick the month you need, and view or print it. Banks and SACCOs ask for recent payslips when you apply for a loan, so keep your login details safe and keep printed copies of the last few months in a file at home.

Check your payslip every month, not just when you need a loan. Look at your gross pay, your deductions, and your net pay. If a deduction looks wrong, raise it early through your school and the TSC county office while the records are still fresh.

Login help

Most portal problems have simple causes. Start with the basics. Type the address yourself instead of clicking an old link you saved months ago. Check that Caps Lock is off. Passwords are case sensitive, and one wrong letter locks people out again and again.

Use the email address or ID number you registered with. If you changed your email after you opened the account, the old one may still be the one on file. Try it before you panic.

Still stuck? Use the forgot password link on the login page. You will get reset steps through your registered contact details. Set a new password you have not used on the portal before, write it down somewhere safe at home, and log in again right away to confirm it works.

Common problems and fixes

The portal will not load. Try a different browser, or clear your cache and try again. Portals also slow down near application deadlines, when thousands of teachers log in at once. Early morning and late evening are usually calmer. Submitting a few days before the deadline is the safest move you can make.

Your details are wrong. Read what the portal shows, note the exact field that is wrong, and follow the correction route for that portal. For record errors, the HRMIS route and your TSC county office are the right places to start.

Your upload fails. Scan your document again at a smaller file size, save it in a common format such as PDF or JPG, and give the file a short simple name. Long file names with symbols cause more failures than you would expect.

You suspect a scam. Stop. TSC recruitment is free, and official adverts live on tsc.go.ke. Do not pay anyone, do not share your ID or TSC number with a stranger on social media, and do not use a copycat site that asks for your password.

What this site is

This is an independent help site. We explain the TSC portals in plain words so you can get your task done without stress. We are not TSC, and we cannot change your record, reset your account for you, or influence a job decision. Only the official portals can do that.

When you are ready to act, use the official routes only. Start from tsc.go.ke, or go straight to teachersonline.tsc.go.ke for jobs and registration. If you want the official links in one place first, see our official TSC portal links and download page, which explains why there is no TSC app to install and where each service actually lives.

Good luck with your application, your appraisal, and your teaching. Take your time, check your details twice, and submit early.