The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has released the first batch of teacher promotion letters. The letters have reached the TSC County Directors offices for issuing to teachers.
According to the Commission policies a list of promoted teachers must be published and made public.
Successful teachers are to be issued with promotion letters as the unsuccessful ones get regret letters.
The promotion interviews for post primary school teachers which started on 27th January ended on 6th February 2025.
Post primary institutions include Teacher Training Colleges (TTCs) and Secondary schools.
PROMOTION INTERVIEWS
The promotion interviews for primary school teachers which started on 13th January ended on 23rd January 2025.
The Commission had advertised 25,288 promotion slots for both primary and post primary school teachers.
TSC first advertised 5,690 promotion slots for school administrators through Advert 1 to 4 of 2024 which ran from 12th to 18th November, 2024.
TSC then on 17th December 2024 advertised additional 19,943 slots for teachers from job group C1 to D3 to apply online.
Of these 16,109 slots went to primary schools while a total of 9,179 positions went to post primary institutions.
This years promotions just like last years registered a huge number of teachers applying for the various advertised positions underscoring the need for more promotion of teachers.
According to TSC a total of 189,000 teachers applied for promotions and were shortlisted where 96,640 were primary school teachers and 44,043 were post primary school teachers.
This years promotion interviews was different from last years as no questions were asked by the interviewing panels.
The interview panels which consisted of Sub County Directors, Human Resource Officers and Curriculum Support Officers largely restricted on documents verification.
Teachers were required to present their ID’s, academic and some other documents for verification during the interviews.
The TSC promotion scoresheet favoured aged teachers those aged forty five years and above.
In the scoresheet teachers aged fifty five years and above were awarded 30 marks.
Those aged fifty to fifty four were awarded 26 marks while those aged forty five to forty nine were awarded 22 marks.
Teachers aged forty to forty four scored 18 marks while those aged thirty to thirty nine scored 14 marks in the scoresheet.