Teachers Reactions After TSC announce that only 14,738 Promotions Filled
After the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) revealed that more than 14,000 primary and secondary teachers had been elevated to higher job groups, educators and their unions responded in differing ways.
Head teachers and deputies who were serving in an acting capacity are among those who received promotions. However, when they learned that their applications had been unsuccessful on Friday through regret letters, many instructors were devastated.
The National Assembly should request a breakdown of how the promotions were dispersed, according to a teacher who received a letter of regret last week and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The company is accused by instructors of impeding their professional advancement, which has made the promotion of teachers a divisive topic.
Despite asking for Sh2.2 billion, the TSC only received Sh1 billion in the current budget for promotions.
TSC was praised for promoting teachers by the Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) and Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet).
They wanted their company to clarify the standards by which the 14,000 instructors were promoted while the others were not.
Since December of last year, the commission has had to re-advertise the positions three times due to a lack of competent candidates.
Teachers, though, blame the commission for employment grades remaining static for so long.
They issue a warning that, as the majority of administrators approach retirement, the paucity of teachers in high administrative posts poses a threat to succession plans.
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After TSC posted job openings for 987 deputy head teacher positions (primary schools), six deputy principal positions (special needs schools) and eight principal positions (special needs schools), the instructors were interviewed in the early months of this year. The openings came about as a result of attrition.
According to Mr. Collins Henry Oyuu, general secretary of Knut, teachers in employment groups C1 to C3 have plateaued.
“We need to do an analysis to determine who received promotions and at what level. However, we are grateful to TSC for submitting a Sh2.2 billion proposal for promotions. We are aware that TSC only received Sh1 billion, which was put towards teacher promotions. However, we request that the National Treasury set aside the balance for promotions. In that field, teachers haven’t been promoted in a while, he said.
The unions said that some of those elevated included those who had been waiting to retire for a number of years.
“We welcome the more than 14,000 teacher promotions. However, we had anticipated the promotion of more than 100,000 teachers. That is only 1%, which is a drop in the bucket, according to Mr. Dan Aloo, secretary of the Kenya National Union of Teachers’ Mombasa section.
He claimed that at least 100 teachers had received promotions in Mombasa. Because of their efforts in putting the Competency Based Curriculum and the 100% transition policy into practise, more teachers, according to A Aloo, should be compensated.
When the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet) meets with TSC representatives on Tuesday to discuss their collective bargaining agreement, the union will ask for clarification on the promotions, according to Akello Misori, the organisation’s secretary-general.
Kuppet According to Mombasa executive secretary Lynette Khamadi, some of the promoted secondary school teachers had three to five years left before retiring, defeating the objective.
She claimed that despite the need to promote additional instructors, Kuppet is pleased with the promotions.
“TSC ought to explain to us how they select the candidates for promotions and discard the rest. According to Ms. Khamadi, “We don’t want general regret letters that discourage our members from applying for similar opportunities.
Johnson Nzioka, the national chairman of Kenya Primary Schools Head Teachers, stated: “Anything done for members to remunerate them more is well appreciated.”
TSC has been seeking to fill top administrative positions since last December but hasn’t been able to find enough candidates.
Even after re-advertising and extending the application deadline, a total of 1,001 positions have remained empty with no applications received in the last six months.
To fill openings at institutions without institutional administrators, opportunities are available for chief principals, principals, deputy principals, head teachers, deputy head teachers, senior masters and senior teachers.
Since many schools don’t have permanent administrators, the Commission extended the deadline in the hopes that more instructors would apply.
Teachers Reactions After TSC announce that only 14,738 Promotions Filled
