The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) is planning to promote a total of 3,900 tutors this year its CEO Dr. Nancy Macharia said when she appeared during a two day consultative forum with National Assembly Education Committee.
However TSC did not explicitly say the category of teachers it seeks to promote this year.
There have been speculation that TSC is planning to promote diploma teachers who have stuck in one Job group for long as well as teachers in formerly job group L.
Some weeks ago Kuppet Diploma teachers protested and presented a raft of demands to their top union officials through a memo.
Among the issues canvassed in the memo were:
i. The stagnation of Diploma teachers in Job Group C2;
ii. The slow promotion of Diploma teachers who have obtained BEd degrees; and
iii. The introduction of a new Marking Scheme for teacher recruitment that has lowered the scores for Diploma teachers.
In response Akello Misori praised the implementation of Career Progression Guidelines under the CBA saying that it has brought tremendous gains for teachers, compared to the situation that obtained when promotions were based strictly on the Schemes of Service.
The teachers have since threatened to withdraw from the union en masse.
During the meeting, the TSC boss said that some 55,000 teachers have been promoted this year and that 460 teachers have already been interviewed and will get promotion letters soon.
The committee members expressed concern over the duration some deputy principals have served as acting head-teachers and asked TSC to determine a maximum period for such cases.
This comes as more Deputy head teachers are still waiting for posting after attending interviews for headship late last year.
Only few have received letters for posting them to schools as heads.
The MPs proposed the need to develop a policy on the promotion of teachers who have attained the required qualifications to head institutions.
They emphasised that fairness must be key in all promotion exercises.
The MPs also raised concern over the transfer of teachers, especially school principals and head-teachers.
Citing multiple schools in their constituencies that have experienced a great turnover at the administration level, the MPs said the transfers affect operation of the schools.
Macharia, however, said that all vacancies are filled competitively with the objective to promote national values, fairness, non-discrimination and equity.
“The criteria used in promotion of teachers include the availability of budget/funds; the existence of vacancies in the authorized establishment; merit and ability as reflected in the teacher’s work performance; academic and professional qualification among others,” she said.
TSC has also continued to issue deployment letters to primary school teachers who deserve.
TSC had advertised 1,000 posts last year and did the same September this year.
The 1,000 posts were primarily reserved for practising P1 teachers with degree and C+ at KCSE to teach in high school.
The application was done online through a portal provided by the employer.
TSC has been blamed by the primary school teachers for failing to promote them after acquiring higher academic qualification.
TSC stopped promotion of teachers based on papers early January 2014 and this led to disquiet among the primary school teachers.
Most of those who submitted their papers to the Commission only received acknowledgement letters but waited for promotion in vain.
TSC changed the promotion of teachers after it developed the Career Progression Guidelines (CPG) immediately after signing of the CBA 2017 – 2021 between it and the teachers unions.
However TSC has started releasing deployment letters to successful p1 teachers who applied for the 1,000 posts.
The teacher employer is also posting teachers with science subject combination after it failed to do so last year.
The teachers will report to their new stations early January when schools fully reopen for other classes.
TSC is planning, in due time, to post all the qualified and deserving p1 teachers to secondary school to help plug shortage brought about by 100% transition.
TSC database shows that at least 6,347 primary school teachers have degree with C+ at KCSE and two teaching subjects and qualify to teach in secondary school.
We have suffered a lot having done a diploma in education but fails to be registered due to subject grades and yet the said subjects are not those of specialization eg maths and yet the tsc are aware of universities offering the same but have done nothing……plese consider us and register us.
If a teacher is sincerely promoted, things on ground will be sawa.
Tsc is a corruption den where many teachers are promoted thru patronageship and mpesa messages.teschers in C3 have no hope as many are retiring.How can a teacher work in the same job group for 14 years and the employer expect results?where on earth.
The most suffering is when a teacher stagnates for years in job L. Mungu tu!!
What about those teachers who have bachelor’s degree in primary option when will they be promoted to their required job groups?
Appointed depy headteachers three yes no confirmation .then given another appointment as acting headtr in a school that was on it’s knees after it picked I got a transfer to an other sch.now been acting depy head teacher again two yrs not a single cent.I feel misuse .9
TSC should have teachers’ interests at heart n promote them accordingly since the new skills, knowledge, values nn altitudes they acquire in further studies are directly applied on uplifting standards in schools they offer services tirelessly.
What about those primary teachers who have masters and have been intentionally been denied promotion to headship for failing to frequent cuonty offices even having done interviews?
1. When will Master degree be considered?
2.I have never received acknowledge ment letter of the same
Thanks alot for the promotion,kindly remember also those who have degrees and two teaching subjects but with KCSE C-,surely ,surely we used alot of resources in process of acquiring the degree please
P1 teachers took loans to help in advancing to degree.eg, having attained B(plain) in highschool,I graduated with second class honor upper division.since 2017 to date still waiting for TSC at least to behave but in vain.pleace our TSC don’t ignore us.
who has received a deployment letter? when were they started being dispatched and what criteria are they using
we always hear that people are getting deployment letters ‘out of the 1000 letters of last year kisii county received only 10 letters?and if we approximately work out 10 letters for each county,this translates to 470 letters including Mandera and Garrisa where I don’t expect anybody where did the rest go and who were the beneficiaries. corruption
Diploma teachers are suffer double penalties,that is they join the profession at job group c1 and only moves to c2 automatically.I wish they that they also move to c3 automatically so to atleast be on the same level with their graduates counterparts who join the profession at job group c2 and move to c3 automatically. All teachers have the same workloads and duties and hence no need of discriminating some teachers(diploma) when it comes to payment.
We have undergraduate P1 teachers who did primary option. What is the commission’s take over them?
My request to TSC is to always send messages to applicants to inform them of the results after processing their applications to avoid the anxieties connected to the same.
Some P1 holders with C plain at KCSE and C+ in two teaching subjects did degree and they feature nowhere, what’s the tsc stand koz previously p1 was considered as a bridging to acquire a degree
Good move by the tsc.Remember we’ve been yearning for these promotions for so long.God bless tsc,God bless macharia if it’s true there is promotions before end year
Good progress seen!Keep it up.
This is the best news ever received from tsc for p1 graduate trs.madam Macharia it’s a dream come true for me to teach English and Literature in a high school. It’s my passion.
Also consider those with degree in Early childhood (ECD).
Good riddance! Promote us.
Where are the deployment letters! I’m impatient waiting the so called promotion,I applied last year but I didn’t deployed, this year I applied still waiting till when ? Yet I met the requirements and qualifications.
Which category of teachers are to be promoted we are tired whith speculations.Tsc is promoting p1 teachers with degree leaving diploma teachers with degree this is biasness of the highest order
I’m eagerly waiting for my deployment letter.
What is the fate of p1teachers who attained lower KCSE grades and have attained degrees with first class honours or second class honours upper division?
This is the best news ever received from tsc for p1 graduate trs.madam Macharia it’s a dream come true for me to teach English and Literature in a high school. It’s my passion.
When will these deployment letters come,,zitoke haraka watu tujue our fate,Kama ni kupelekwa mbali mtu ajipange mapema
I graduated in 2014 but last year i applied for deployment but i was not considered.I feel dicouraged when p1 teacher who graduated in2018 got a deployment letter and yet we had the same qualification tsc should be clear and tell us which creteria they used