TSC Announces Interview Dates For Promotion Of 2,419 Teachers

The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) will start interviews for the promotion of 2,419 teachers in primary and secondary schools next week.

The interviews will be conducted at regional and county levels from November 1 to 12 according to TSC. The vacancies are mostly for chief principals, principals, deputy principals, headteachers, deputy headteachers, and senior teachers.

The interviews would also lead to the promotion of 1,376 teachers as heads and deputy heads in arid and semi-arid lands (Asal) and hard-to-staff regions.

“This is on affirmative action to grow teachers progressively,” the notice says.

The promotions are in line with the career progression guidelines, which came into effect in 2018. Interviews for the 1,995 interns – some 1,038 for primary and 957 for secondary schools – will also be conducted next month.

The commission has promoted more than 100,000 teachers in line with the 2017-21 collective bargaining agreement that expired on June 30 in the last year.

Among them are 15,407 teachers who were interviewed in December 2020 and February this year. The other 99,078 were elevated under the common cadre established, while 712 teachers and institutional administrators in 10 Asal regions rose on the basis of affirmative action, the commission says.

A total of 115,197 classroom teachers, senior teachers, deputy headteachers, headteachers, curriculum developers, deputy principals, and principals have been promoted in a year.

“The collective bargaining agreement granted all cadres of teachers a common promotion after serving for three years in the entry grades,” reads Teacher’s Image, a magazine produced by the commission.

P1 teachers at job group B5 were promoted to job group C1, diploma certificate holders in job group C1 were promoted to job group C2 while degree certificate holders in job group C2 were promoted to job C3.

TSC chief executive Nancy Macharia said there are vacancies for secondary school teachers, senior masters and deputy principals, primary school teachers, senior teachers, deputy headteachers, and headteachers in counties classified as dry.