Automatic Promotion Of Primary Heads To D1. According to a plan revealed by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC), headteachers of primary schools that will host junior secondary schools starting in the forthcoming academic year would receive promotions.
Additionally, 400,000 teachers are to be hired to staff the primary and junior school divisions—which would be known as comprehensive schools—according to the Commission’s recommendation.
TSC will also promote the current deputy headteachers at certain schools to deputy principals under the new arrangement, which would see the schools run by two deputies.
A bachelor’s degree in any field relevant to education is required of the deputies and principals.
The present headteachers and deputies will require a diploma at the very least in order to be promoted to the positions of principal and deputy principal.
Headteachers and deputies will be teaching classes at the junior school, which is facing a teacher shortage.
The head teachers in their current job group will be moved to the next one. While individuals in job category C5 will be promoted to job group D1, senior headteachers in job group D1 will be moved to work group D2.
Automatic Promotion Of Primary Heads To D1
They will advance in a systematic manner, similar to secondary school and teacher training college (TTC) principals, until they are assigned to job group D5.
Before the exercise began, TSC had previously asked for more information from the head teachers and their deputies using an Excel template.
All bank accounts belonging to the pre-primary, primary, and junior schools (comprehensive schools) will have the principal as a signatory.
The Commission intends to promote 12,000 teachers in the 2024–2025 fiscal year, with 3,000 positions going to secondary schools and 9,000 positions going to primary and junior schools.
The CEO of TSC, Dr. Nancy Macharia, announced this month that a total of 36,504 teachers were promoted during the fiscal year 2023–2024.
According to her, this has led to 71,212 teacher promotions over the preceding five years. Macharia claims that in order to promote more teachers, the government has budgeted sh 1 billion for the fiscal year 2024–2025.
With plans to expand to 120,923 instructors in junior secondary education, TSC currently employs around 223,296 elementary school teachers.
Approximately 347,000 educators are employed in elementary and secondary education.