TSC Re-Advertises 14,742 Teachers Promotion Vacancies Days After Cancelation
14,742 teachers who had previously been stuck in the same job category now have another opportunity to rise.
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has published a new request for applications following a cancellation last week.
Teachers’ unions and other educators defended the prior advertisement, stating that it was discriminatory and did not hire teachers who had been on the job for a long period.
TSC has recently announced that primary schools will receive the majority of promotions.
A total of 13,713 openings have been advertised, with 3,210 going to senior schools and 10,507 going to primary schools.
All teachers who have served in various roles as senior teachers, Deputy Principals, and Principals would be automatically promoted, according to Akello Misori, Secretary General of the Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET).
“We demand that all teachers in Job Groups C2 to C3 be promoted automatically after three years of service. We demand that no cadre be left in promotion advertisements for as long as it is currently the case,” Misori said.
He went on to say that many principals in Job Group D3 who worked at Sub-County schools had been stagnant for many years and were not considered for promotion.
The majority of teachers in post-primary education, he claims, are in Job Groups C3 and C4.
According to TSC Chief Executive Officer Dr Nancy Macharia, the promotions will be based on career development norms.
Misori, on the other hand, stated that senior Master in Secondary Schools is a meaningful deployment in accordance with professional development norms.
“The entry cadre to senior Masters Category is senior Masters IV a position teacher at C3 should be promoted to. We noticed that most schools do not have substantive senior Masters, so the majority are internally appointed where they have acted for a long time, which is illegal under labour laws,” Misori said.
He claims that the 1,330 teachers scheduled for promotion are a minor amount in comparison to the enormous number of teachers who have remained in this group.
Misori stated that the majority of those teachers will be replacing colleagues who are leaving the service but will not necessarily be promoted.
“The majority of the advertised positions appear to be simply replacements for existing services, and thus there are no new promotions,” he said.
Dr Macharia stated that 1,021 teachers will be deployed to 18 ASAL counties, while the rest of the country will share 13,717 teachers, including principals, deputy principals, senior masters, and head teachers in primary and secondary schools.
Under Job Group 5, four Teachers Training Colleges will also have new principals take over.
Another 73 teachers are set to be promoted to chief principal position in both regular schools and Special Needs Education (SNE), with another 603 set to be principals in ordinary schools.
Eight positions are set aside for Special Needs Education, while 17 deputy principals I will also be promoted.