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MPs Pass Motion To Reverse Delocalization Of Teachers

BY Getrude Mathayo · November 4, 2022 12:11 pm

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MPs unanimously approved a motion on the Review of Teacher Deployment Policy, challenging the policy allowing TSC to deploy teachers away from their homes.

The Teachers Service Commission, TSC, is under pressure from parliament to immediately halt the punitive delocalization policy and transfer of teachers, those already affected back to their home counties after Parliament passed a motion calling for its abolishment.

On Thursday, November 3, MPs unanimously approved a motion on the Review of Teacher Deployment Policy, challenging the policy allowing TSC to deploy teachers away from their homes. The motion was introduced by the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) politician and Lurambi MP, Bishop Titus Khamala.

According to Khamala, the delocalization policy was inconsistent with United Nations Educational and Scientific Cultural Organization (UNESCO) teacher deployment practice, which treats education as a cultural process conducted within a people’s cultural context at the local level.

He added that the policy disrupted teachers’ lives and lowered their morale owing to the trauma arising from the movement.  The motion holds that teachers were not involved in the decision to affect the policy and lacked a clear policy framework.

“The exercise was not supported with a clear policy framework and was initiated without the participation of teachers or their unions, contrary to Articles 118 and 132 of the Constitution on public participation and involvement of the people in the process of policymaking,” read the motion in part.

TSC will also be required to initiate a comprehensive review of the teacher deployment policy with the involvement of teachers in order to make the policy consistent with the International Labour Organization (ILO) and UNESCO laws and practices on teacher management and deployment.

The legislators said the mass transfer of teachers was not supported by a clear policy framework and was initiated without the participation of teachers or their unions, contrary to Articles 118 and 132 of the Constitution on public participation and involvement of the people in the process of policy-making.

“Appreciating the invaluable role that teachers play in actualizing the national goals of education; noting that a conducive working environment for teachers enhances performance, this House resolves that the Teachers Service Commission immediately reverses the ongoing delocalization of teachers,” read his motion.

Related Content: TSC In A New Process To Deploy Teachers To Junior Secondary Schools

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