TSC to promote teachers stagnated in same job group over 10 yrs
TSC to promote teachers stagnated in same job group over 10 yrs
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has been asked to promote more than 1,000 teachers who have been in the same job group for more than ten years, according to a demand made by the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet).
Kuppet Secretary General Akelo Misori believes that these teachers ought to be promoted right away.
Even though several of them had participated in multiple TSC interviews for promotions based on the Career Progression Guidelines (CPG), Akelo observed that they had never been given any thought.
He went on to say that although the majority of them had attended more than two or three interviews for promotions, they had been excluded for years.
Some of these professors were converted from job group L into C3, and others from the previous job group M into C5.
Misori made these remarks at a five-day retreat with TSC officials in Naivasha, where they were attending the Kuppet National Executive Board full meeting alongside their technical staff.
This consultation conference was requested by the teachers’ employer, TSC, in response to concerns voiced by Kuppet regarding the list of promotions for roughly 51,000 teachers between May 2024 and the list that was just released in March 2024.
Speaking at the meeting, Misori criticized the newly made public list that showed more than 14 instructors had retired or passed away from the TSC promotion list.
Misori also brought attention to the fact that a number of Curriculum Support Officers on the promotion list are not now employed as teachers.
Misori claims that the list also included TSC Secretariat employees who are not instructors but who, while not being on the teaching staff, had improperly benefited from promotions intended only for professors.
The union demanded that the approximately 1,000 teachers on the list—who had not received a single promotion in over a decade—be promoted immediately after presenting their list to the TSC.
The union also requested during this discussion that CPGs be revised or eliminated because they haven’t addressed the issues that teachers are facing at a standstill.
TSC to promote teachers stagnated in same job group over 10 yrs