Hati hii imechapishwa kwa Kiingereza
Maandishi ya Kiingereza yaliyo hapa chini ndiyo yanayotumika. Sheria zinazotajwa kwenye hati hii zimeandikwa kwa Kiingereza, na tafsiri ya hati ya kisheria inaweza kubadilisha maana yake, kwa hivyo hati yenyewe haijatafsiriwa. Ukiwa na swali lolote kuhusu hati hii, tuandikie kupitia ukurasa wa mawasiliano.
Rasimu inayosubiri kukaguliwa kisheria nchini Kenya, 21 Septemba 2026
Maneno haya yaliandikwa kwa kuzingatia sheria za Kenya zinazotajwa ndani yake, na bado yanasubiri kukaguliwa na wakili aliyesajiliwa nchini Kenya. Huenda yakabadilika kabla ya kukamilika. Mambo ambayo bado hayajaamuliwa yamewekewa alama "In review" pale yanapotokea hapa chini.
Masharti kati ya Eduace na mwalimu anayeiomba kazi, na anayefundisha kupitia kwayo
Ilisasishwa mwisho: 21 Septemba 2026 (rasimu inayosubiri kukaguliwa kisheria nchini Kenya)
Eduace recruits trained Kenyan teachers to teach online, live, for learners who live outside Kenya. It finds the learner, agrees what that learner needs, and puts the lesson in front of a teacher whose subjects, levels and hours fit it. The teacher decides whether to take it and then teaches it, from wherever they are in Kenya, over a video call. Eduace runs no lessons for learners inside Kenya and sells nothing to families here. Applying is free of charge at every stage.
These terms apply when you use this website, when you send an application, and when you teach a lesson offered to you through Eduace. They are the general frame. The particulars of any lesson you accept, and the written terms of your engagement, sit alongside them and carry the specifics: the subject, the level, the length, the time, the rate and how the money reaches you. Where those written particulars deal with something expressly, they govern it. Read these terms before you apply, and keep a copy of anything you accept.
Six of them do most of the work in this document.
Eduace, the recruitment brand described on this website.
The teacher. That covers an applicant who has sent the form and has not yet been engaged, and a teacher who is teaching lessons offered through Eduace.
The person taught in a lesson. Every learner is outside Kenya, and may be a child, a school-age young person or an adult, depending on what the lesson is.
One live session, taught by you over a video call, at an agreed time and for an agreed length.
What we send you when a learner matches your subjects, your levels and the hours you have said you can hold. It carries the particulars of that lesson, including the rate, before you decide.
The written terms agreed with you before you teach your first lesson. They carry the rate, how and when the money reaches you, and anything specific to your arrangement.
Three conditions, and one caution that matters more than it looks.
You must be eighteen years of age or older.
Eduace is looking for trained teachers. A certificate of registration from the Teachers Service Commission is the clearest proof of training a Kenyan teacher holds, so the application form asks for your Teachers Service Commission (TSC) number if you hold one, and your documents are completed on the teacher account you set up after applying.
These terms are addressed to a teacher who is at liberty to take on teaching hours on their own account. That covers a registered teacher waiting on a posting, a teacher whose internship has ended, and a teacher working part time or on a short contract.
Regulation 28(d) of the Teachers Service Commission Code of Conduct and Ethics for Teachers 2015, Legal Notice No. 162 of 2015 restricts a teacher who is serving on a full-time basis from taking other gainful work. Read that regulation against your own contract before you apply, and apply once you are free to. That judgement is yours to make about your own position, and Eduace cannot make it for you.
Give us details about yourself that are accurate, including your training, your registration and the subjects and levels you are able to teach, and tell us when something changes.
Four steps, written out here so that nothing arrives as a surprise later.
A single form in three short steps, with a progress bar. About you: your name, an email address, a phone number that reaches you, the country you live in, your citizenship, and your county if you live in Kenya. Your teaching: the curricula you have taught, your subjects, the learners you have taught, your years of teaching, your Teachers Service Commission (TSC) number if you hold one, and evidence of your English. Your time and a recording: the hours you can teach, chosen in East African Time, the hours a week you can hold, and a link to a recording of about five minutes of you teaching. With the recording ready, it takes about fifteen minutes, and sending it commits you to nothing.
Every application is read by a person, alongside what you have told us about your teaching. No decision about an application is taken solely by a machine.
Everyone who applies receives an email with the next step: setting up a teacher account on the partner teaching platform Eduace works through, signing in with Google using the same email address you gave on the form, and completing your profile and documents there. After that, only shortlisted applicants are contacted about teaching.
When a learner matches your subjects, your levels and your hours, that lesson is offered to you, with its particulars written down before you accept it.
The details in your application are used to assess it, and they are shared with the partner teaching platform so that you can set up an account there. That platform may store them outside Kenya. They are not published and they are not sold. Sections 4 and 5 of the privacy policy set out who holds them, where, and on what ground under the Data Protection Act No. 24 of 2019.
There is no application fee, no joining fee, no charge for training and no charge for equipment. Nobody at Eduace will ask you to send money, to buy an account, or to pay for a place with a learner. If a message claiming to come from Eduace asks you to pay something, it did not come from us, and we would like to hear about it.
This is the most important section on the page, so it is written plainly and it is written against ourselves as much as for ourselves.
You teach as an independent contractor, in business on your own account. Eduace engages you under a contract for services. You are not under our direction as to how you teach, and nothing in these terms is intended to place you under it.
You choose which offers to accept and which to decline. You decide which hours you make available and you may change them. You teach using your own approach, within what the learner has asked to learn. You provide your own computer, your own connection and your own place to teach. You may teach for other people at the same time, and Eduace asks for no exclusivity.
Because this is a contract for services, the provisions of the Employment Act 2007 (Cap 226) that attach to a contract of service do not arise between us: no annual leave, no paid sick leave, no notice period, no severance and no redundancy pay. Statutory contributions that an engager of an employed person remits are likewise not remitted by us, and section 8 sets out what that leaves with you.
The Employment and Labour Relations Court decides status by looking at control and integration, and it has held that the words a contract uses about itself do not by themselves create a relationship of service. So this section describes how the arrangement is meant to run, and the arrangement has to actually run that way for the description to hold. If you find it running differently, tell us, because that is a problem for us to fix.
The classification of a Kenyan teacher engaged online by a party outside Kenya, and any Kenyan registration or deduction obligation that follows from it, has not been settled by a Kenyan advocate. It is one of the questions put to one, and this page changes when the answer arrives.
Lessons are offered one at a time. Nothing is scheduled for you, and nothing is assigned to you.
The subject, the level, the length, the date and time, and the rate for that lesson. You see all of it before you decide.
You may accept an offer or let it pass. Declining carries no penalty, costs you nothing, and does not affect what you are offered afterwards.
There is no minimum number of lessons you must take and no requirement to be available at set times. Equally, Eduace does not promise you a number of lessons, a number of hours or an income. What you are offered depends on which learners come forward for what you teach.
Kenya keeps East African Time, three hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time, all year, with no change for summer. A lesson time is given to you in your own clock. Where a learner sits in a country that moves its clocks, the hour in your day shifts when theirs does, and the offer will say so.
Where a learner wants the same hour each week, that is still a series of offers you accept, and you may stop accepting them.
A short list, and all of it is about the learner in front of you.
Be ready at the agreed time, prepared for what the learner asked to learn, for the length agreed.
Things happen. Tell us as soon as you know, so the learner can be told and the hour moved. How a missed lesson is treated is set out in your engagement terms.
A working internet connection, a quiet place to teach, and a device with a camera and a microphone. These are yours to provide, and Eduace charges you nothing for equipment or for training.
The lesson is offered to you because of what you teach, so it is taught by you. Sending someone else in your place is not part of this arrangement.
Learners, the adults who arrange their lessons, and the people at Eduace treat one another with courtesy. Harassment, discrimination or unsafe conduct by anybody ends the arrangement.
Eduace pays you for lessons you have taught. Nothing is ever deducted from you for the chance to teach.
Your rate is quoted per hour taught, in Kenya shillings, and it is put in front of you in writing before you teach a single lesson. Every offer repeats the rate for that lesson. Nobody is asked to commit to anything before seeing it.
There is no rate card on these pages and no figure anywhere on this site. The rate reaches you directly, in writing, as part of your engagement terms.
The channel your payment travels through, and how often it runs, are set out in your engagement terms before you begin. Any detail you give for that purpose is handled as the privacy policy describes.
Eduace takes no fee from you, deducts no joining charge and sells you nothing. Money moves in one direction in this arrangement, and it is towards you.
Tell us. Bring the lessons you taught and the dates, and we go through it with you and put right anything that is wrong.
Working on your own account means the Kenyan obligations on your income sit with you. This section points at them plainly, and none of it is tax advice.
Income you earn teaching is yours to declare and to account for to the Kenya Revenue Authority on your own return, under the regime that fits your circumstances.
The Social Health Insurance (General) Regulations 2024 put a household whose income does not come from salaried work on its own contribution, worked out from household income under the means testing instrument and subject to a monthly minimum. Where you fall into that description, that contribution is yours to make.
The Kenya Revenue Authority has published that the levy reaches beyond employed persons: all other persons who receive income, or whose income accrues in Kenya, are required to remit it, by the ninth working day after the end of the month. The levy rests on the Affordable Housing Act 2024.
Whether a payer outside Kenya, with no establishment here, carries a Kenyan deduction obligation on fees paid to a Kenyan teacher is unsettled: the machinery in the withholding rules assumes an agent holding a Kenyan tax account. It is one of the questions with a Kenyan advocate. Until it is answered, your engagement terms state what is deducted, if anything, and you are told before you teach.
Eduace keeps a record of lessons taught and payments made, and will give you a copy of yours whenever you ask for it.
To teach a lesson you receive details about the person you are teaching. Those details belong to them.
What you learn about a learner, their level, their goals, their difficulties, their family circumstances, is for teaching them and for nothing else.
Do not share a learner’s details with anyone outside the arrangement, do not post about a learner, and do not use a learner’s name, work or image to advertise yourself.
Lessons are arranged through Eduace and through the channels agreed with the learner or the adult acting for them. Do not move a learner to a private arrangement off the platform, and do not approach a learner or their family for work of your own.
Return or destroy what you hold about a learner once you are no longer teaching them, apart from anything you have to keep for your own tax records.
Tell us at once if a learner’s details are lost, seen by somebody who should not have seen them, or sent to the wrong person. Kenyan data protection law puts firm hours on the notice a controller has to give once it becomes aware of a breach, and we cannot start that clock until you tell us.
What Eduace holds about you, why, for how long, and the rights the Data Protection Act No. 24 of 2019 gives you over it, are set out in the privacy policy.
Many learners are children. Where they are, their safety comes before everything else in this document.
Lessons for a learner under eighteen are arranged with the adult responsible for them, and you contact that learner only through the channels that adult has agreed to.
No private messaging with a learner under eighteen, no contact through personal social accounts, and no arrangement to meet.
A learner under eighteen joins from a shared part of their home wherever that is possible, and the adult responsible for them is welcome to sit in on any lesson.
A lesson is recorded only where the learner, or for a learner under eighteen the adult responsible for them, and you have both agreed to it beforehand.
If anything in a lesson makes you worried for a learner’s safety, tell us immediately. Every report is acted on. Reporting a concern in good faith never counts against you.
Eduace asks for no exclusivity, and your professional obligations remain your own.
Nothing here stops you teaching for anyone else, on any platform, or on your own account, at the same time as you teach through Eduace.
Regulation 32 of the Teachers Service Commission Code of Conduct and Ethics for Teachers 2015, Legal Notice No. 162 of 2015 allows a registered teacher to engage in teaching or learning activities outside normal school hours to promote education, with one carve-out named in that regulation. Regulation 28(c) bars private business during official working hours, and Regulation 28(d) restricts a teacher serving on a full-time basis from other gainful work. Those regulations bind you as a registered teacher, and keeping to them is yours to manage.
Whether a Kenyan teacher teaching a learner who sits outside Kenya, and outside any Kenyan institution, falls inside the carve-out in Regulation 32 or inside section 37 of the Basic Education Act 2013 at all is unsettled, and it is a question with a Kenyan advocate. Neither statement is made on this page, in either direction. Read your own position against your own contract, and ask us anything you want to ask.
Keeping your registration with the Teachers Service Commission current, where you hold one, is yours to do. Tell us if its status changes.
Three different things, owned by three different people.
Materials you write yourself for a lesson remain yours. By using them in a lesson you allow Eduace and that learner to use them for that lesson and for the learner’s own study afterwards. Nothing here takes your materials away from you or stops you using them elsewhere.
Anything Eduace gives you for teaching, including guidance and templates, is for your teaching through Eduace and stays ours.
Past papers, textbooks, marking schemes and other published materials belong to their publishers and examination bodies, and using them in a lesson is subject to their terms.
The text, the design and the mark on this website belong to Eduace. You are welcome to read and share these pages, and any other use needs our written permission.
Worth stating outright, because a recruitment page that leaves this unsaid lets a reader assume something better.
Eduace does not promise you a quantity of work or an amount of money. Offers follow demand from learners, and demand varies by subject, by level and by hour.
What a learner achieves depends on many things, including their own effort and how they are assessed. No promise of a grade, a score or an outcome is made to a learner, and none should be made by you.
There is no history to point to and nothing on these pages claims one. Everything here is either a plain description of the arrangement or a fact with its source attached.
We take reasonable care in describing the work, in setting out what a lesson requires, and in paying for what you have taught.
Loss you suffer that is a foreseeable result of our failing to keep to these terms or to take reasonable care.
So far as Kenyan law allows, we do not answer for loss that could not reasonably have been foreseen, or for events outside our reasonable control, including a failure of a connection or a power supply at either end of a lesson.
Any responsibility that Kenyan law does not permit to be limited or excluded stays exactly as the law leaves it.
Either side may bring it to an end, and there is no penalty on either side for doing so.
Stop accepting offers, and tell us, so that no learner is left waiting. Lessons you have already accepted are taught, or we agree together how they are covered.
Eduace may stop offering you lessons where these terms are broken, the parts on safeguarding a learner above all, where the details you gave turn out to be inaccurate, or where there is no longer work matching what you teach. We tell you why.
Every lesson you have taught is paid for, whichever side brought the arrangement to an end and whatever the reason.
The duties in the sections on a learner’s information and on safeguarding continue after the arrangement ends, because the learner’s interest in them does.
If something goes wrong, tell us first. Most things are settled in one conversation, and it costs nobody anything to try.
These terms, and any dispute arising out of them, are governed by the law of Kenya.
A dispute that cannot be settled between us goes to the courts of Kenya.
Kenya has a specialist court for disputes about work, and whether a disagreement under a contract for services of this kind belongs to it or to the ordinary civil courts turns on the status question in section 4. That has not been settled by a Kenyan advocate, so this page names no single forum until it is, since a forum named too early could turn out to be the wrong one.
These terms change as the arrangement settles and as the Kenyan advice on them lands.
This page always carries the terms in force and the date they were last changed.
The terms in force when you accepted a lesson apply to that lesson.
Where a change affects anyone teaching through Eduace, they are told before it takes effect.
Those are the positions a Kenyan advocate has yet to settle. Each is replaced with a settled answer once there is one, and the date at the top moves when that happens.
If anything here is unclear, or you want to raise something before you apply, reach us through one of these channels. A person answers.
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