TSC To Publish Specific Names Of Promoted Teachers. The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has been under fire from the Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) for disclosing a list of 36,505 promoted teachers.
This is in response to multiple grievances raised by educators who remain dubious about the exercise’s fairness.
When some teachers discovered that junior teachers with recent TSC numbers had been promoted but long-serving teachers had been left, they were taken aback.
Knut now demands that the identities of the instructors the Commission believes were effectively promoted be made public rather than the raw list, which merely includes TSC numbers.
At the same time Knut secretary general, Collins Oyuu, has ordered his branch executive secretaries to furnish him with details of teachers in their zones who applied for promotion and missed.
We have noted with concern that there is so much complain on this issue after the release of the results.
The purpose of this communication is to request you to compile data on the above issue (promotion of teachers) as per Zone in your Branch using a template attached herein.
This information should reach the Head Office through the email address [email protected] by Monday 11th March 2024 before you proceed to the Nakuru meeting,” said Oyuu in a memo.
TSC published the list of successfully promoted teachers on its website following interviews conducted in December and January.
However, it was a disappointment for thousands of others who applied and attended interviews but were not considered for promotion.
TSC To Publish Specific Names Of Promoted Teachers
“Can someone tell me what is wrong with my file? Or what is TSC looking for in these interviews? I am shortlisted every year but never considered [for promotion]. Teachers that I interviewed for and mentored are now getting ahead of me and becoming my bosses. It’s quite demoralising. I think I will opt for early retirement because I am no longer motivated to work; I have five months to 50 [years] and then I will hang up my boots,” said a teacher from Elgeyo Marakwet.
He said that his last promotion was in 2011. He had been interviewed in 2017, 2021, 2023, and 2024 and had not been considered for promotion on each occasion.
The teachers’ unions have been complaining for years that a large number of their members have been stuck in the same grades.
The TSC has only promoted teachers to cover vacancies brought about by natural attrition, citing a lack of funding for such efforts.
Despite having asked Sh2.2 billion, it has only received Sh1 billion for promotions in the current fiscal year.
Collins Oyuu, the secretary-general of the Kenya National Union of Teachers, requested last week that the TSC reimburse promoted teachers for the time they were eligible for promotion but were not given the new job grades.