TSC Promotions Loading. The government’s Sh1 billion allocation for the same goals has prompted the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to plan full promotions for extra teachers.
After 545 deputy principals were promoted to principals during the 2023–2024 fiscal year, which concluded in June 2024, the commission claims that the principals who attended the conference for the first time as substantive heads received recognition.
TSC completed the promotion of 36,504 teachers in the current fiscal year, which began on July 1st. This action will raise the overall number of promotions in the previous five years to 71,212 instructors.
Dr. Nancy Macharia, the head of TSC, stressed the goal of elevating the instructors in order to reduce the backlog.
Macharia also pleaded with the principals of their respective schools to urge qualified instructors to submit applications as soon as positions are posted.
Out of the 65,000 teachers that were expected, more than 36,000 teachers were promoted to new job groups in March of this year.
Since then, 50,000 teachers have been pushed for promotion by the Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET), many of whom had been at a standstill for a long time. According to the union agreement with TSC, the majority of teachers now teaching in classes C4 and C5 would be promoted to C5 and D1 posts, according to KUPPET Secretary General (SG) Akelo Misori.
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He said that those long-serving teachers who have been locked in Grade C3 would now have opportunities thanks to the promotions. Misori also disclosed that 7,400 instructors in C4 were left out of the 2023–2024 promotion pool.
She gave the explanation that this was because the teachers had been in their present grade for fewer than three years. Mosori added that despite this, the grade was only made public two years ago as a result of KUPPET’s advocacy efforts.
The KUPPET union suggested that post-primary teachers no longer use Teacher Scale C5, which will enable a direct promotion from C4 to top administrative roles. It was also suggested that senior teachers at D4 be given opportunities in non-administrative roles, even if they do not end up becoming school principals.
KUPPET addressed the problem of instructors performing administrative duties without receiving commission money in a simple and concise manner.
The KUPPET union stated that TSC’s practice on this is illegal, and as a result, many may take legal action to settle this matter, even after TSC cited that the acting posts are non-compensable under Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) Circulars.