Regret letters will now be sent to thousands of teachers who were unable to gain promotion openings last year.
The letters were released by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) in accordance with its promotion guidelines.
The regret letters might serve as proof of prior interview appearances for teachers. The TSC County and Sub County Directors will receive soft copies of the regret letters to print and distribute to instructors.
This coincides with TSC advertising 5,690 promotion positions for school administrators, with applications due on November 18, 2024.
TSC has advertised vacancies for principal, deputy principal, headteacher and deputy headteacher positions.
VACANCIES FOR PRINCIPALS, DEPUTY PRINCIPALS, HEADTEACHERS & DEPUTY
S/No Advert No. Advert Name T- Scale Grade Posts
1. 01/2024 Principal (Post Primary) 13 D3 755
2. 02/2024 Deputy Principal III (Post Primary) 11 D1 816
3. 03/2024 Head-Teacher (Primary) 10 C5 1,208
4. 04/2024 Deputy Head teacher II (Primary) 9 C4 2,911
TOTAL 5,690
The Commission will advertise other thousands of promotion vacancies for classroom teachers once the KCSE exams are done. This will mostly touch teachers in grades C1 and C2.
Last year TSC advertised a total of 36,505 promotion slots for primary and post primary school teachers at a cost of sh 1 billion.
Last year TSC advertised a total of 36,505 promotion slots for primary and post primary school teachers at a cost of sh 1 billion.
The Commission received close to two hundred thousands applications from teachers.
This year TSC has also been allocated similar funds for promoting teachers across all cadres.
Speaking during supervision of KCSE 2024 exams, TSC CEO Dr. Nancy Macharia said the Commission has been allocated sh. 1 billion for promotion of teachers in December.
Of the 36,505 vacancies advertised in September last year, 17,914 were for primary school teachers.
The interviews for primary school teachers were done from 4th to 15th December 2023.
Secondary school teachers and Teacher Training College (TTC) tutors had their interviews running from 3rd to 16th January 2024.
However many teachers criticized last years promotion interviews claiming they were marred with corruption and lacked merit.
The application for promotion will be done online after which a list of shortlisted candidates will be released.
Interview dates will be issued for candidates who will also be required to appear with the following documents during the exercise.
1) Original National ID Card
2) Original Academic and Professional Certificates
3) Letter of appointment to the current Grade
4) Letter of appointment to the current post (where applicable)
5) Analysed individual subject results in KCPE/KCSE Examinations for the last three years, certified by TSC County Directors/Sub County Directors.
6) Performance Appraisal Reports for the last three years
7) Any other relevant testimonials supporting your performance
Below are the adverts made by TSC in September last year from lowest to highest for regular and special need teachers.
ADVERT NO. 62/2023 (C1-C2): SENIOR TEACHER II (SNE PRIMARY SCHOOL) – T- SCALE 7 -700 POSTS
ADVERT NO. 61/2023(C1-C2): SENIOR TEACHER II (REGULAR PRIMARY SCHOOL) – T-SCALE 7 -10,819 POSTS
ADVERT NO.60/2023(C2-C3): SENIOR TEACHER I (SNE PRIMARY SCHOOL) – T- SCALE 8 – 346 POSTS
ADVERT NO.59/2023 (C2-C3): SENIOR TEACHER I (REGULAR PRIMARY SCHOOL– T-SCALE 8 – 3,040 POSTS
ADVERT NO. 58/2023(C3-C4): DEPUTY HEAD TEACHER II (REGULAR PRIMARY SCHOOL) T-SCALE 9 – 1,930 POSTS
ADVERT NO. 57/2023(C4-C5): HEAD TEACHER (SNE PRIMARY SCHOOL) T-SCALE 10 – 30 POSTS
ADVERT NO. 56/2023(C4-C5): HEAD TEACHER (REGULAR PRIMARY SCHOOL), T- SCALE 10 – 1049 POSTS
ADVERT NO. 55/2023(C2-C3): SECONDARY TEACHER I (REGULAR SCHOOL), T- SCALE 8 – 1928 POSTS
ADVERT NO.54/2023(C3-C4): SENIOR MASTER IV (REGULAR SCHOOL), T-SCALE9 -12,716POSTS
ADVERT NO.53/2023(C3-C4): SENIOR LECTUTER IV (TTC) T-SCALE 9 – 216 POSTS
ADVERT NO. 52/2023(C4-C5): SENIOR MASTER III (REGULAR SCHOOL) T-SCALE-10 – 1142 POSTS
ADVERT NO. 51/2023(C5-D1): DEPUTY PRINCIPAL III (REGULAR SECONDARY SCHOOL) T-SCALE 11 – 1057 POSTS
ADVERT NO. 50/2023(D1-D2): SENIOR LECTURER I T-SCALE 12 – 72 POSTS
ADVERT NO. 49/2023(D1-D2): DEPUTY PRINCIPAL II (REGULAR SECONDARY SCHOOL) T-SCALE 12 – 547 POSTS
ADVERT NO. 48/2023(D2-D3): PRINCIPAL (REGULAR SECONDARY SCHOOL) T-SCALE 13 – 541 POSTS
ADVERT NO. 47/2023(D3 –D4): SENIOR PRINCIPAL (REGULAR SECONDARY SCHOOL) T-SCALE 14 – 108 POSTS
ADVERT NO. 46/2023(D4-D5): CHIEF PRINCIPAL (REGULAR SECONDARY SCHOOL) T-SCALE 15 –34 POSTS
1 Comment
Idid the interview and I was not successful I had been the head teacher but dropped without a a reason it’s really frustrating