The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) will start interviews for the promotion of 2,419 teachers in primary and secondary schools starting today.
The teachers employer said it will conduct promotion interviews for 2,419 shortlisted teachers between 1st to 12th November 2021 at the Regional and County offices.
Shortlisted teachers will be interviewed to fill 1,043 vacancies ranging from Grade C2 (TSC Scale 7 Senior Teacher 2) to Grade D5 (TSC Scale 15 Chief Principal).
The Commission said it will interview 1,376 teachers holding positions of Heads and Deputy Heads of institutions in ASAL ( arid and semi-arid lands) and Hard to Staff areas who are seeking promotions.
The interviews would lead to promotion of 1,376 teachers as heads and deputy heads in arid and semi-arid lands and hard-to-staff regions.
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.
“This is on affirmative action to grow teachers progressively,” said TSC CEO Dr. Nancy Macharia.
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 this 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 this 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.
Thanks for what our employer is doing for us.Once promoted and be asked to a post of deputy headteacher and asked to work in those asal areas like mandera,marsbit I can comfortably work there with minimal supervision.
I did application for Deputy headteacher and I haven’t received any response for the interview.
Am a degree certificate holder, secondary option (geog /cre). Had applied for deployment from PRI to secondary sch but was left out Tsc 236639. What should I do?
TSC is lying to the public. The interviews were never fair very few were promoted.
How do we know that one was shortlisted?
I did apply for deputy principal ll and I have not received communication for the interview
What about those teachers who did their interviews in December and February and have not yet heard any communication from tsc,
What about those teachers who did their interviews in December and February and have not had any communication from tsc,
Bn very unfair to me..With all the qualifications I have for special needs education.. Did both diploma n degree with specialization in VI since 2014 Tsc has not yet deployed me to special school or even integrated.. I regret n feel wasted if my skill.. Recently I applied for promotion meeting all the requirements having stagnated for more than 4 years in one job group yet not considered..am demoralized
I’m a pry school tr deployed as deployed as deputy headteacher since 2018 n my designation still reads senior tr and I’m not in asal area.. I feel demoralised for having worked tirelessly for all that long without any recognition, what shld I do
it is unfair for degree holders in primary schools who are in c2.while their colleagues with similar qualifications were promoted to c3.tsc should do something with these teachers
I got a regret but i have served as a deputy for 12 yrs plse the employer should consider
C2 teachers are disadvantaged