The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) will start interviews for the promotion of 2,419 tutors in primary and secondary schools next week, Sunday Nation has reported.
According to a TSC brief, the interviews would be conducted at regional and county levels from November 1 to 12.
The vacancies are mostly for chief principals, principals, deputy principals, headteachers, deputy headteachers and senior teachers.
The interviews would also lead to the promotion of 1,376 teachers as heads and deputy heads in arid and semi-arid lands (Asal) and hard-to-staff regions.
“This is on affirmative action to grow teachers progressively,” the notice says.
The promotions are in line with the career progression guidelines, which came into effect in 2018.
Interviews for the 1,995 interns – some 1,038 for primary and 957 for secondary schools – will also be conducted next month.
In the last one year, the commission has promoted more than 100,000 teachers in line with the 2017-21 collective bargaining agreement that expired on June 30.
Among them are 15,407 teachers who were interviewed in December 2020 and February this year.
The other 99,078 were elevated under the common cadre established, while 712 teachers and institutional administrators in 10 Asal regions rose on the basis of affirmative action, the commission says.
A total of 115,197 classroom teachers, senior teachers, deputy headteachers, headteachers, curriculum developers, deputy principals and principals have been promoted in a year.
“The collective bargaining agreement granted all cadres of teachers a common promotion after serving for three years in the entry grades,” reads Teacher’s Image, a magazine produced by the commission.
P1 teachers at job group B5 were promoted to job group C1, diploma certificate holders in job group C1 were promoted to job group C2 while degree certificate holders in job group C2 were promoted to job C3.
“The promotions are a departure from the past where P1 teachers entered and retired from service in the same grade,” the TSC said.
“This is an indication of the commission’s commitment to cater for the professional growth of teachers by a clear career path for the worker.”
According to the career progression guidelines, a teacher must have served in their current job group for three years.
While advertising the posts, TSC chief executive Nancy Macharia said there are vacancies for secondary school teachers, senior masters and deputy principals, primary school teachers, senior teachers, deputy headteachers and headteachers in counties classified as dry.
She said the promotion of teachers in Asal regions is part of the promise made by the commission in the 2021-25 collective bargaining agreement.
Teachers in Asal regions holding the posts have being serving in acting capacity for more than three years.
Schools in the regions have been experiencing an acute teacher shortage due to insecurity.
Many teachers posted to these regions seek transfer shortly after.
A number of teachers are also being moved from primary to secondary school to handle junior secondary students ahead of the rollout in 2023.
The TSC plans to extend the serving period of 4,005 interns, whose one year term was to end in December.
It means the total number of interns in schools would increase to 6,000.
The 1,995 interns to be recruited from next week are expected to report to school in January 2022.
The recruitment of interns, the commission says, is meant to address the teacher shortage in schools.
An teacher intern attached to a primary school gets a monthly stipend of Sh15,000 while his or her colleague in secondary school earns Sh20,000.
We still have acknowledged letters waiting promotion for diploma and degrees like our other counterparts.
TSC has the mandate to recruit,employ and promote teachers.In the recent advertisement of senior teachers,it (TSC) would have considered those in ACTING CAPACITY.They have done it as they
employ the teachers intern by awarding 30% above those who are not.One is given that acting capacity by the head of institutions who are the agents of TSC at ground level.You can imagine another teacher promoted to the same vacancy where one has been acting and is left out despite the fact that one was been undergoing some hardships while acting without any responsibility allowance and for a long time.Please consider those in acting capacity.my view.
I went for the interview for senior teacher Iv. Which I did not receive any feedback…..But on the ground I work like a donkey.Tsc is unfair me.This is discouraging especially to people who teachers by calling.Only old men were promoted…….I need to grow .
TSC doesn’t consider promotions for teachers with disabilities why?
I feel demotivated by TSC.I served as a senior teacher for three years and deputy headteacher for 2 years.I then transferred to Nairobi where I was taken to the classroom as a classroom teacher My efforts to become an administrator have proved futile.I did interview for deputy headteacher in February this year.I never received any regret or promotion.Recentry I was given the post of senior teacher.I feel this is unfair since I had served as a senior teacher and as a deputy in another county.It is demoralizing.
When you’re working so hard to get good grades for students and then you attend an interview and fail to go through is the most discouraging thing that happen to a committed teacher.
I attended those interviews in 2016 and in Feb this year,in 2016,only God knows what happened, I saw corruption it its true colours. We were ranked and I was the second. However, positions were given on the basis of ‘do you know anybody. This Feb,no communication was made and non of all those who participated in a whole sub county got positive results,some received regrets while others remained in darkness. I will never take a promotional interview with TSC,never again.
I understand that teachers in c2 with degrees were promoted to c3.What is the fate of teachers in c3 who are holders of degrees and have stagnated since 2017?
You guys have completely forgotten the Diploma teachers in secondary schools who have stagnated in job group K (C2) since 2017. What is the fate of those teachers? Some of them have even earned themselves masters degrees!
What is the date of the SNE teachers teaching in special schools and special units and yet have not been promoted?
Why is it that some people that went for interview on May 2021 have not yet received their results
Wishing them all the best!
Am very much demotivated when I went Back to for a deploma and have served as a senior teacher since 2016 while TSC promoted colleagues of the just recent year! How do I recover my fees!!
Ave worked for TSC for the last 32yrs in the same job group, what unfortunate teacher am l.ave come to hate the job
I did interviews in Feb no regret no nothing it costed me alot but I think corruption here worked so demoralizing
How can one know if he’s considered for November 2021 interview
You are a corrupt organization you fail masters to pass certificates! oops! potekea mbali!
You pass undergraduates and fail masters and PhD; corrupt org. potelea mbali. Nowonder your policies are barbaric and idiotic.
Iv been a deputy headteacher for the last ten years, I got my degree in 2014 since then no promotion, lastly when I went to register I was told vacancies were for Asal areas now I wonder who are going to be interviewed next week and yet I’m overdue!