Primary school Deputy headteachers who were promoted without following Career Progression Guidelines (CPG) for teachers could find themselves in hot soup.
This also include Deputy headteachers who are in acting capacity but did not go through the set guidelines to warrant them their current a ting position.
According to CPG a teacher cannot skip two job groups in any form of promotion. In CPG one must serve in one job group for a period of at least three years before moving to the next.
For example a teacher in job group C2 can only get promoted to job group C3 before going to job group C4. However it is not possible for the teacher to move directly from C2 to C4.
A good number of teachers were issued with promotion copies from their TSC County Directors offices to act as Deputy headteachers.
Some of the teachers however are not eligible according to CPG. They are in job group C2 others are even in C1 yet one must serve as a senior teacher I in job group C3 to be considered.
They are Deputy headteachers in acting capacity and were hoping to apply for confirmation through the just recalled TSC promotions but the system locked them out.
The situation is however different for teachers in ASAL and Hard to staff areas. In such areas a teacher can skip job groups because promotion is on affirmative action.
TSC cancelled the advert for 14,738 promotion vacancies after mass protests from various teachers including the administrators in acting capacity.
In the advert 3,392 slots went to secondary school while 11,346 went to primary schools. The vacancies arose from retirements, resignations or deaths. Many teachers have also been holding managerial positions in acting capacity.
Some primary school teachers who were left out in the promotion advert like B5 and C1 said there promotion should be automatic upto job group C2.
They wondered why TSC created two senior teacher position i.e C2 and C3 which represent senior teacher II and I respectively.
Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet) Chairman Omboko Milemba backed the cancellation and asked the TSC to increase the number of vacancies.
He added that very many deserving teachers would be left out.
“People deserving promotion are not the target of the advertisement. These are teachers in C3 and C4 job groups. It is a drop in the ocean,” Mr Milemba said.
Mr Milemba blamed the commission for not promoting teachers, thus making them lose benefits.
He said that his office is working on data to establish the extent of the problem and what teachers are owed. He put the figure at more than Sh1 billion.
“This is a pending bill that’s not qualified. It is exploitation of labour by the TSC and government. I’ve put a question in Parliament but I’m doing research with my office staff to back the numbers up. It’s become impossible to be promoted unless you’re in administration,” the Emuhaya MP said.
Nairobi Kuppet Branch Secretary-General Moses Mbora said stagnating in one grade for long has demotivated teachers.
“C3 grade is where teachers have stagnated most. Slots were advertised for D4 grade yet there are many principals in D3 who deserve promotion. Principals were interviewed for promotion to D4 grade in April but nothing happened. We’ve seen another advertisement and their positions are not mentioned,” Mr Mbora said.
He added that having many principals and chief principals and failing to promote deputies would create a succession crisis.
Mr Mbora said stagnating in a job group denies teachers benefits like enhanced medical cover.
“Such a teacher loses on better pension because it is pegged on basic pay,” Mr Mbora said.
He called for the abolition of the career progression guidelines TSC uses to promote teachers and revert to the schemes of service.
“The career progression guidelines are hurting teachers. There are too many salary points,” he said.
Orwa Jasolo, Kuppet’s Migori County Executive Secretary, echoed Misori’s sentiments saying job groups C3 and C5, which form the bulk of post-primary school classroom teachers (80 per cent), were never allocated a share in the advert by TSC.
When commissioners officials appeared before the Education Committee, they were hard-pressed to explain why promotion has not been going on.
“The commission has not been granted additional budgetary allocations for the promotion of teachers for the past 10 years except in July 2017,” TSC Chief Executive Nancy Macharia said, adding that promotion is consequently based on vacancies arising from natural attrition.
This idea of demotion looks rather achievable but quite impracticable as it contravenes labour laws.
Labour laws doesn’t ratify demotions of any kind to existing grades.
It’s therefore a wait & see for TSC openly breaking the law.
CEO Macharia kindly spend most of your time on promotion talks, spend very little time on threats and iron first(ing).
Time and events will pay you in the long run.
Am missing shemes of service abandoned by tsc.surely punda work with one earning over 90,000 and another one 30,000.90,000-30,000?.God hv mercy on classroom trs
This promotion debate does not touch on teachers in C1.Ni nani atatetea Hawa?These teachers work really hard and are paid peanuts.
Nani mtetezi wa C1 teachers?
This promotion debate does not touch on teachers in C1.Ni nani atatetea Hawa?These teachers work really hard and are paid peanuts.
Surely, this promotion stagnation has let many down, for example working as a dht since 2010 and now acting as the Ht,I deserve Ht promotion without quart my chapter 6 is very admirable besides two diplomas (ECDE/management)
For sure teachers in grade C1 are very demoralised as there is no way for promotion and we are the people who toil and moil.Let the promotions be open for everyone.
Desertion of duty loading
The tears of the hundreds of thousand teachers don’t fall to the ground. They go upwards to heaven. When they fall back it will be a storm. Umbrellas will not hold. So you better build strong holds for you and your offsprings.
And KNUT is just silent ,Let them know they r stealing from us.C1 wants the sos back
where is the emaciated KNUT Secretary General? it is laughable when Macharia talks of demoting acting deputy headteachers yet these people have been offering free labour as acting deputies with nil compensation that is commensurate with Grade C4.
Tsc is a crime scene
Am to be advised on who has this notion.A C1 or A B5 teacher cannot be given a salary hike due to their numbers.Do numbers apply when they are purchasing food to feed their weak and mulnourished families.Do they get their fees subsidized ,making them pay less.Do they travel subsidized distanced to enable their cash be enough.Why doesnt TSC stop writing so many threatening and demoralising information but rather serve teachers well as it requires us to serve Learners well.We do so and we serve them but our hearts are bent and wounded.
This world is so unfair,I have not heard KNUT talk of teachers with diploma and degrees who have stagnated in C1 and C2 and yet we are deducted the urgency fee by force
Let’s go back to university and advance then we’ll be promoted. Little education is dangerous.
Let’s go back to university and advance then we’ll be promoted. Little education is dangerous.
The beast of burdens are trs in c1 who will come to their rescuu?
TSC very unfair to deputy heads who have served in the same position for long just because they don’t have degrees e.g I’ve been one since February 2010, with 2 diplomas: ecde and education management. My academic record is also good. I wonder what they look for during interviews.
I just want to know how TSC will reward senior teacher 1 already in C3 but deployed to work in JSS as of January because their pay supercedes highest pay offered by TSC.