Teachers directed to pick promotion letters. At least 1,900 letters of recommendation for county-based school administrators have been delivered by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC).
As a result, owners in several counties have already received posting letters. The letters’ release has been delayed even though the interviews are over.
The newly posted teachers have already received their letters in order for them to report to their new station and start working next term.
TSC initially released a notice for 14,738 teacher promotions in December 2022 before taking it down.
It later requested additional applications in January, March, and May this year after failing to attract required number of applicants.
So far, the Commission has not yet distributed letters to teachers who submitted applications to become senior teachers. While they wait for confirmation, some teachers were tentatively acting in an interim capacity as senior teachers.
Teachers directed to pick promotion letters
According to the TSC database, majority of the teachers selected after the March promotion interviews are yet to be posted. The database can also be accessed through the county and sub-county directors’ offices.
A top TSC official attributed the delays on the lack of funding, which is being provided by the government piecemeal.
He stated that as long as it has funding, the Commission would continue to promote and post the teachers.
TSC CEO Nancy Macharia basically criticized instructors for both their own inertia and the lack of progress they have received. She further claimed that academicians were reluctant to apply for positions in other states that promised progression.
Macharia noted that since teacher progress now relied on the number of opportunities in a certain county, “promotion based localisation” was a problem the commission had to deal with.
She also explained to the parliamentarians in attendance at her appearance before the National Assembly Education Committee that “teachers are only competing for vacancies in their own counties as they cannot be “transferred” to other counties.”
The TSC head said that the commission had barely 14,738 job opportunities at the start of this year. These ultimately serves the purpose to fill positions that had become vacant due to natural attrition.
Only 11,231 teachers were hired, though, while 3,507 posts remained vacant due to a lack of suitable applicants. 1,021 of these jobs were reserved for teachers as part of the affirmative action program.
TSC published job postings for the posts of chief principal, principal, deputy principal, senior master, headteacher, and senior teacher for both ordinary and special schools.
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Teachers directed to pick promotion letters.