Promotion Letters For Headteachers To Be JSS Principals. Headteachers at elementary schools that will house junior secondary schools beginning in the upcoming academic year will be promoted, according to plans released by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC).
400,000 teachers will also be sent to work in primary and junior school divisions, which would become comprehensive schools according to the proposal.
Current deputy headteachers at these schools will advance to deputy principals under this new arrangement. Two deputies will oversee these entities.
A bachelor’s degree in any field related to education will be required of both principals and deputies.
To be eligible for promotion to principle and deputy principal positions, headteachers and deputies currently holding such positions must possess a minimum of a diploma.
These headteachers and deputies will teach in junior schools, which are currently facing a teacher shortage.
Promotion Letters For Headteachers To Be JSS Principals
Headteachers will be promoted to the next job group, moving from job group C5 to D1, and senior headteachers in job group D1 will be promoted to D2.
Their promotion will continue progressively until they reach job group D5, similar to the principals of secondary schools and teacher training colleges (TTCs).
TSC has already requested additional data for headteachers and their deputies via an excel template to begin this process.
The principal will be a signatory to all school bank accounts, covering pre-primary, primary, and junior schools (comprehensive school).
The Commission intends to promote 12,000 teachers in this fiscal year, allocating 3,000 posts to secondary schools and 9,000 to basic and junior schools.
Dr. Nancy Macharia, CEO of TSC, revealed this month that 36,504 teachers received promotions in the fiscal year 2023–2024.
She pointed out that with this, there have been 71,212 promotions of teachers in the last five years.
According to Macharia, the government has set aside Sh1 billion for the 2024–2025 fiscal year in order to promote more teachers. With plans to hire 120,923 teachers for junior secondary schools, TSC now employs about 223,296 instructors in elementary schools.
There are now 347,000 educators working in elementary and secondary education combined.