Deputies and Senior teachers together with Headteachers/Principals in acting capacity who applied for advertised promotion vacancies will from next week be issued with promotional letters.
Senior teachers and Deputy Headteachers will get theirs from the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) Sub County Directors offices.
Headteachers and Principals will pick their promotion letters from the TSC County Directors offices.
The last batch of the remaining letters was released by the TSC headquarters and are now in County and Sub County offices for printing and issuing to teachers.
A small number of senior teachers/ masters, and deputy headteachers/principals had received their letters after successfully attending interviews in their counties.
TSC first advertised for 14,738 teacher promotions in December 2022, before cancelling the advertisement.
It then called for subsequent applications in January this year, then March and the latest in May.
The vacancies arose through natural attrition. In this budget (2023-2024) TSC has been allocated Sh1.1 billion to be used to promote teachers across various cadres.
In May advert (third time) the teachers’ employer asked teachers to apply for senior school management positions.
TSC chief executive Dr Nancy Macharia said it had failed to attract the righty persons to fill the slots in two successive advertisements.
The first and second call for applications was done in January and March this year.
It is widely expected that the perks that come with the top positions would easily elicit a scramble for the slots.
However, in May advertisement, TSC still pleaded with qualified teachers to fill some 1,001 slots within the seven days.
Of these were eight principals and six deputy Principals both in Special Needs Education (SNE) schools as well as 987 Deputy Head-teachers in regular primary schools.
Dr Macharia opened the window one more time for interested teachers to submit their applications between June 9 -15.
‘‘The Commission strives to ensure that teachers are promoted as a means to recognize and reward teachers’ effort and performance, align them for succession management/career progression and to motivate them to perform better in their duties and responsibilities,’’ Dr Macharia said.
In January this year, TSC advertised for promotion positions that would see 14,738 teachers promoted to fill vacant Schools and Institutions and others which had teachers in acting positions.
However, TSC said even with several requests to fill the positions, thousands of schools remain without heads of institutions and deputy heads of institutions for failure by teachers to apply for advertised positions.
‘‘The Commission also has a responsibility to provide Institutional Administrators for public educational institutions for effective management of public schools,’’ Dr Macharia added.
Among the affected schools are special needs public schools with special needs and disabilities learners.
Teachers’ employer had advertised positions for Chief Principals, Principals, Deputy Principals, Deputy Principals, Head-Teachers, Deputy Head-teachers, Senior Masters, Senior Teachers positions.
Of these were four teachers as chief principals, eight principals, and 15 deputy principals all in SNE schools.
Additional TSC wanted 7,720 deputy head teachers to take over in regular primary schools bringing the number to 7,747 teachers.
However, only 5,155 teachers were filled leaving a gap of 2,592 vacancies.
“So far no single teacher has applied to be chief principal, only one has gone for principal, two as deputy principals in SNE schools while 5,152 for deputy head teachers were recruited in regular primary schools,” said Dr Macharia.
Two months later TSC re-advertised the positions apart from the four for chief principals.
In return the commission received 1,591 applications including Seven principals, three deputy principals all in SNE schools.
1,581 teachers made a stab at deputy head teachers positions for regular primary schools.
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We were left out due to grade c3 for d/ht
Let them promote the deployed principals paid as deputies and working for over 6yrs @ chair education Committee Julius melly
Walete tufanye kazi I have been a deputy headteacher for the last 19 years in Nandi county, since 2005 to date TSC no 326694 kindly confirm,idid the first interview, it was in vain, this is my second interview kindly consider me
I applied for 2 time but not listed for interview
Acting deputies must be confirmed.
I have been applying severally but in vain,l have acted for 3 three years now with no pay l know one day God will pay me .why not just promote acting.deputies
I have been a Boarding Master in a Special School for so many years. Is there not a single recommendation to go with this responsibility/duty?