TSC Sends Good News to 1,300 Administrators Issued Regret Letter
This week, at least 1,500 school administrators who had sought for promotions, gone to interviews, and awaited promotion letters received a shocking awakening.
Teachers received regret letters from the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) rather than letters of advancement.
TSC claims that 1,300 of the instructors who received letters of regret still have an opportunity to apply.
It is unclear why the Commission cancelled their appointments given that they had already been shortlisted and confirmed after county-level interviews and were simply awaiting posting.
Unfortunately, some acting teachers who were hoping to be confirmed lost out.
When a promotion advertisement is published, the teachers are to reapply for the posts, according to TSC.
After the education taskforce suggested that the Ministry of Education manage the teacher promotion duty, it is unclear if TSC will take on the next teacher promotion issue.
3,359 public schools, according to TSC data, do not have head teachers.
There are no principals or head teachers in 1,441 secondary schools and 1,918 public elementary schools.
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At a time when the government is implementing crucial reforms in the education sector, a total of 3,359 public primary and secondary schools lack the key institutional leadership.
TSC first published an advertisement in December 2022 for 14,738 teacher promotions before removing it.
After failing to draw the necessary number of applicants, it then called for more applications in January, March, and May of this year.
Many of those who participated in interviews in their counties in March were posted to schools for the second semester.
Nancy Macharia, the CEO of TSC, has criticised teachers for not receiving advancements and for their own inertia.
She charged that educators were unwilling to apply for jobs that offered advancement in other states.
“Promotion based localisation” was an issue the commission had to deal with when it came to teacher advancement, she said, because it now depends on the amount of openings in a particular county.
When she went before the National Assembly Education Committee, she informed the lawmakers present that “teachers are only competing for vacancies in their own counties as they cannot be “transferred” to other counties.”
The head of TSC noted that in order to fill posts left open by natural attrition, the commission had posted 14,738 job openings at the beginning of this year.
However, only 11,231 teachers were hired, while 3,507 positions went unfilled for want of qualified candidates. Of these, 1,021 positions were set aside for teachers under the affirmative action programme.
For both regular and special schools, TSC posted job advertisements for the positions of chief principal, principal, deputy principal, senior master, headteacher and senior teacher.
TSC Sends Good News to 1,300 Administrators Issued Regret Letter
