The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) will promote aged primary school teachers who are stuck in job group C1 for long.
According to an advert it published last week, the Commission has declared a total of 4,683 promotions for C1 teachers out of 21,313 total vacancies.
In primary schools teachers are employed at job group B5 then promoted automatically to job group C1 after serving for three years.
However promotion to C2 is not automatic. A C1 teacher can only be promoted to C2 after successful promotion interview.
Job group C2, Senior Teacher II, is an entry grade for school administrators in primary schools.
Requirement for appointment to grade C2, a teacher must: –
i. Have served as Primary teacher I T- Scale 6 for a minimum period for three (3) years.
ii. Have obtained a satisfactory rating in the performance appraisal process.
iii. Have demonstrated ability to supervise, mentor and provide professional support to other teachers and.
iv. Meet any other requirement deemed necessary by the Commission.
There are approximately 130,000 primary school teachers stuck in job group C1.
However only those aged 57 years and above are likely to secure promotions according to TSC promotion scoresheet.
The scoresheet favours aged teachers who have stagnated in one job group for years.
The Commission has awarded enormous score to the elderly with those aged 57 years and above getting 30 marks.
Teachers aged 52 to 56 years will get 25 marks, 47 to 51 years will get 20 marks while those aged below 41 years will score 10 marks.
The years a teacher has served in their current grade is also key in this years promotion.
Those who have served for at least seven years in same job group will be awarded 30 marks.
Six, five, four and three years will score 25, 20, 15 and 10 marks respectively according to the promotion scoresheet.
However the Commission has given less consideration to teachers academic and professional certificates .
TSC has awarded a maximum of 3 out of 100 marks to various academic and professional certificates held by teachers.
The Commission has awarded 3 marks to PhD holders, 2 marks to Masters holders, 1 mark to Degree holders and zero marks to those with Diplomas.
A teacher must however have served for at least three years in current job group for him to be considered except those in ASAL areas who will be promoted on affirmative action.
Click here to download TSC circular guide and scoresheet for promotion of teachers 2025-2026 (pdf)
Teachers who have served as administrators in acting capacity will be given big consideration if they produce evidence of acting.
In the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) 2025 – 2029 which TSC and teachers unions signed, the Commission pledged to promote teachers across all cadres at a cost of Sh1 Billion this financial year.
According to TSC, the applications for promotions must be submitted by the midnight of Monday, 25th August 2025.
Below is the scoresheet that TSC published in its 2025 – 2026 promotion guidelines and will be used in the upcoming promotion interviews.
1) ACADEMIC AND PROFFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
PhD – 3
Masters – 2
Degree – 1
Maximum 3 Marks
NOTE: Only one, highest qualification, to be awarded
2) TSC (TIMEC/CBC/CEMASTEA County trainers), KNEC (examiners/item developers), KICD (panelist/book evaluator)
Maximum 2 Marks
3) ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITY AND LENGTH OF STAY IN CURRENT GRADE
i)Responsibility
(Marks awarded for performance of administrative duties – This shall apply to those who are performing duties of Head o Deputy Head Teacher OR had earlier acted as such through deployment by the Commission or BOM)
Maximum 25 Marks
| No. of years as administrator | Marks |
| 7 years and above | 25 |
| 6 Years | 22 |
| 5 Years | 18 |
| 4 Years | 14 |
| 3 Years | 10 |
| 2 Years | 6 |
| 6 months (Below 1 year) | 2 |
ii)Length of stay in current grade
(Marks awarded for length of stay in current grade)
Maximum 30 Marks
| No. of years in grade | Marks |
| 7 year and above | 30 |
| 6 years | 25 |
| 5 Years | 20 |
| 4 Years | 15 |
| 3 years | 10 |
| 2 Years | 5 |
| 6 months – 1 year | 3 |
4) PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
TPAD Rating
(Marks awarded for the average Marks in the last 3 years)
Maximum 10 Marks
| Rating Scale | TPAD Marks | Marks |
| 5 | 81% and above | 10 |
| 4 | 61% – 80% | 8 |
| 3 | 41% – 60% | 6 |
| 2 | 21% – 40% | 4 |
| 1 | 1% – 20% | 2 |
5) AGE
Age of the teacher
Maximum 30 Marks
| Age of Teacher | Marks |
| 57 and above | 30 |
| 52 to 56 years | 25 |
| 47 to 51 years | 20 |
| 42 to 46 years | 15 |
| 41 years and below | 10 |
TOTAL MARKS 100
Click here to download TSC circular guide and scoresheet for promotion of teachers 2025-2026 (pdf)
LIST OF 21,313 DECLARED PROMOTION VACANCIES FOR TEACHERS
| S/ No. | Advert No. | Advert Name | TSC Scale | Grade | Posts |
| 1 | 3/2025 | Chief principal – Regular | D5 | 15 | 99 |
| 2 | 4/2025 | Chief principal – TTC | D5 | 15 | 6 |
| 3 | 5/2025 | Senior Principal – Regular | D4 | 14 | 490 |
| 4 | 6/2025 | Senior Principal – TTC | D4 | 14 | 6 |
| 5 | 7/2025 | Principal – Regular | D3 | 13 | 674 |
| 6 | 8/2025 | Principal – SNE | D3 | 12 | 2 |
| 7 | 9/2025 | Deputy Principal II – Regular | D2 | 12 | 971 |
| 8 | 10/2025 | Deputy Principal II – TTC | D2 | 12 | 15 |
| 9 | 11/2025 | Deputy Principal II – SNE | D2 | 12 | 4 |
| 10 | 12/2025 | Senior Lecturer I – TTC | D2 | 12 | 23 |
| 11 | 13/2025 | Senior Curriculum Support Officer | D2 | 12 | 19 |
| 12 | 14/2025 | Curriculum Support Officer I | D1 | 11 | 56 |
| 13 | 15/2025 | Deputy Principal III – Regular | D1 | 11 | 847 |
| 14 | 16/2025 | Senior Head Teacher – Regular | D1 | 11 | 1,400 |
| 15 | 17/2025 | Senior Head Teacher – SNE | D1 | 11 | 14 |
| 16 | 18/2025 | Senior Lecturer II – TTC | D1 | 11 | 44 |
| 17 | 19/2025 | Curriculum Support Officer II – Regular | C5 | 10 | 111 |
| 18 | 20/2025 | Curriculum Support Officer II – SNE | C5 | 10 | 134 |
| 19 | 21/2025 | Head-Teacher – Regular | C5 | 10 | 1,872 |
| 20 | 22/2025 | Senior Lecturer III – TTC | C5 | 10 | 43 |
| 21 | 23/2025 | Senior Master III – Regular | C5 | 10 | 737 |
| 22 | 24/2025 | Deputy Head-Teacher II – Regular | C4 | 9 | 3,547 |
| 23 | 25/2025 | Deputy Head-Teacher II – SNE | C4 | 9 | 19 |
| 24 | 26/2025 | Senior Lecturer IV – TTC | C4 | 9 | 59 |
| 25 | 27/2025 | Senior Master IV – Regular | C4 | 9 | 850 |
| 26 | 28/2025 | Senior Master IV – SNE | C4 | 9 | 3 |
| 27 | 29/2025 | Lecturer I – TTC | C3 | 8 | 18 |
| 28 | 30/2025 | Secondary Teacher I – (Diploma) Regular | C3 | 8 | 994 |
| 29 | 31/2025 | Senior Teacher I – Regular | C3 | 8 | 3,244 |
| 30 | 32/2025 | Senior Teacher I – SNE | C3 | 8 | 141 |
| 31 | 33/2025 | Senior Teacher II – Regular | C2 | 7 | 4,683 |
| 32 | 34/2025 | Senior Teacher II – SNE | C2 | 7 | 188 |
| TOTAL | 21,313 | ||||
LIST OF DOCUMENTS TEACHERS TO PRESENT DURING PROMOTION INTERVIEWS
Kindly note that the number of documents to present depends on nature of the promotion vacancy. Classroom teacher will have less documents compared to those seeking higher administrative positions.
1) Original Identity Card (ID)
2) Original academic certificates (KCSE, PTE, Diploma and Degree certificates)
3) Letter of appointment to current grade
4) Latest payslip
5) Last promotional letter
6) Letter assigning responsibility of HOI/DHOI
7) Performance appraisal reports (TPAD) for 2022, 2023, 2024
8) Any other testimonials
LIST OF DOCUMENTS TEACHER TO PRESENT AFTER SUCCESSFUL PROMOTION INTERVIEWS
1) Valid Certificate of Good Conduct from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI)
2) Clearance Certificate from the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB)
3) Tax Compliance Certificate from Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA)
4) Clearance from Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC)
5) A Clearance Certificate from an approved Credit Reference Bureau (CRB)
PHD 3 MARKS, MASTERS 2MKS , Degree 1 mark and diploma 1 mark. When any institution is led by people who are allergic to academic they tend to water it down through all means.
It is a mockery to a PHD holder witnessing a p1 certificate holder going up the rank. Should we start awarding marks to our students using the age parameters.
Biasness will cripple the education sector
Please can you inquire for us if the ones promoted last can apply,bcs nothing like promotion had been seen on payslip.
You are crippling teachers day in day out. You mean any teacher who goes back to class and spent time and money to improve h/ her academic status is not needed in this country? Shame on TSC.
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It is a bad coincidence that whenever I invest in education to move from the lowest paid cadre the employer looks down on the academic certificates.
The time I used to post best results in English in the entire Meru North nobody was bothered with excellent results.
Teachers enrolled for degrees and diploma and they were promoted immediately.
I was not able to because my children were in very costly schools.
At some point I decided to try my best out of my pocket and enrolled for a diploma in ECDE. Immediately I completed and forwarded my certificate to TSC, you said the certificate was not recognised and completely closed ECDE graduates outside.
On realising I might retire a C1 teacher, unable to pay even the bank loans I have invested in my children’s education, I decided to walk out of my way and enrolled for a degree in English and Literature at Mount Kenya University in the year 2022.
I graduated on 8th August 2025.
I am now shocked to see that my degree certificate can only earn me 1mark.
What wrong did I commit to my employer to warrant me this kind of discrimination?
Very sad
Please consider those who graduated before 2015
Please consider those who graduated before 2015