Promotion Pay Boom For TSC Teachers. As of this week, thousands of educators who attended promotion interviews in late 2023 and early 2024 will know their outcome, according to Nancy Macharia, Chief Executive Officer of the Teachers Service Commission.
The instructors were interviewed for more than 36,000 positions in elementary, secondary, and teacher training colleges. Many of them had been stagnating in the same job categories for years.
According to Ms. Macharia, the teachers should start receiving the promotion letters this week. Teachers who are promoted will receive higher pay.
In August of last year, the teachers’ employer welcomed applications for promotion. In December 2023 and January of this year, county-level interviews were held.
The positions up for grabs were for chief principal, regular secondary school (34), senior principal, regular secondary school (108), principal, regular secondary school (541), deputy principal II, regular secondary school (547) and senior lecturer I (72)
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Others were deputy principal III, regular secondary school (1,057), senior master III, regular secondary school (1,142), senior lecturer IV, TTC (216), senior master IV, regular secondary school (12,716), secondary teacher I, regular school (1,928), head teacher, regular primary school (1,049) and head teacher SNE primary school (30).
Positions That Were Advertised
There were more positions for deputy head teacher II, regular primary school (1,930), senior teacher I, regular primary school (3,040), senior teacher I, SNE primary school (346), senior teacher II regular primary school (10,819) and senior teacher II SNE primary school (700).
More good news for teachers is that the commission will advertise an additional 6,000 positions this financial year after it was allocated Sh1 billion for promotion of teachers.
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Ms Macharia said that 46,000 teachers currently on contract will be converted to permanent and pensionable status upon completion of two years. This year 20,000 more teachers will be recruited on contract.
The secretary-generals of the Kenya National of Union of Teachers (Knut) and the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet) Collins Oyuu and Akello Misori welcomed the news, but insisted that more teachers who are due for promotion should also be uplifted.
It’s been long overdue. Promotions should be done more progressively. Teachers have stagnated for too long and that’s not acceptable. Some have been acting in their roles and we expect them to be substantively appointed to enjoy their benefits,” Mr Misori told the Nation.TSC promotion letters updates.
Promotion Pay Boom For TSC Teachers
Mr Oyuu said the union expects the TSC to pay the promoted teachers arrears for the time they had qualified for promotion but had not been assigned the new job grades.
“The TSC must be sincere when they talk about promotions. The number of promoted teachers must conform to the vacancies advertised. Teachers should be promoted when they’re due for promotion,” he said.
He added that previously, the TSC never got enough applicants for promotional vacancies because teachers feared they would be transferred under the delocalisation policy.
Ms Macharia spoke to journalists in Nairobi where she also explained that the commission deducted the controversial Housing Levy from teachers’ salary for January because the court ruling suspending it came when the payroll had been prepared and money disbursed. The court ruling was made on January 26.TSC promotion letters updates.
While appearing before Parliament last week to answer to questions raised by the Auditor-General, it emerged that the TSC had paid millions of shillings to teachers who had left service.
Promotion Pay Boom For TSC Teachers