The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) is set to promote more than 36,000 teachers in primary and secondary schools.
According to Nancy Macharia, the TSC Chief Executive, while appearing before the National Assembly’s Education Committee last week, Macharia requested MPs to allocate 2 billion shillings for promoting 12,634 tutors in the 2023/2024 financial year
The TSC told the National Assembly Committee on Education that it will need 2,75,038,528 shillings to move teachers to new job groups.
According to the estimates that the TSC tabled before the committee, some 600 million shillings is needed to promote 4,595 primary school teachers from grade C1 to C2 while Sh1 billion will be required to move 4,750 Diploma holder teachers from grade C2 to C3
The TSC employer will also need 400 million shillings to promote 2,637 graduate teachers from grades C3 to C4 and 175, 038,528 to promote 652 graduate teachers from grades D3 to D4.
Nancy Macharia told the lawmakers that the TSC intends to promote 11,258 teachers in the common cadre in the current financial year, subject to the availability of funds. She added that TSC would promote 13,717 teachers on a competitive basis and 1,021 using the affirmative action in ASAL and hardship areas policy.
Details provided by the TSC indicate that 4,006 teachers were competitively promoted in the 2019/20 financial year and another 16,032 in the 2020/2021 fiscal year.
In the 2019/20 financial year, some 5,034 teachers were promoted on a common cadre basis and 94,76 on the same basis in the following fiscal year.
Lawmakers demanded to be informed why some teachers have not been confirmed after acting in many positions for as long as five years. Lugari MP Nabii Nabwera said the TSC has never informed teachers why they have not been confirmed.
Ms. Macharia said teachers who qualify for appointment as institutional administrators must show interest by applying when the commission advertises the positions.
“Deployment of institutional administrators, teachers who have acted as institutional administrators have an added advantage during interviews as they are awarded marks on the number of years they have been acting,” Ms. Macharia said.
The CEO told MPs that the policy on the deployment of institutional administrators provides for a clear career progression structure to ensure systematic progression, growth, and professional development for all teachers.
A report by the Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education (Kuppet) indicates that a total of 6,031 have been holding the positions in an acting capacity.
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