TSC Promotions Loading Following Recent Budgetary Allocations
TSC Promotions Loading Following Recent Budgetary Allocations
TSC Promotions Loading Following Recent Budgetary Allocations
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has scheduled full promotions for more teachers in response to the government’s Sh1 billion budget for the same objectives.
The commission asserts that the principals who attended the conference for the first time as substantive heads were recognized after 545 deputy principals were elevated to principals during the 2023–2024 fiscal year, which ended in June 2024.
36,504 teachers were promoted by TSC during the current fiscal year, which started on July 1. With this action, there will be 71,212 instructors who have been promoted total over the last five years.
The head of TSC, Dr. Nancy Macharia, emphasized that the purpose of boosting the instructors is to lower the backlog.
Additionally, Macharia begged the principals of each of their various schools to encourage eligible teachers to apply as soon as opportunities are listed.
In March of this year, almost 36,000 teachers were promoted to new job groups out of the 65,000 teachers who were anticipated.
Since then, the Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) has advocated for the promotion of 50,000 teachers, many of whom had been at a halt for a while. KUPPET Secretary General (SG) Akelo Misori stated that most instructors now teaching in classes C4 and C5 would be promoted to C5 and D1 jobs, in accordance with the union agreement with TSC.
He claimed that because of the promotions, the long-serving educators who had been kept in Grade C3 would now have opportunities. Misori also revealed that 7,400 C4 instructors were not included in the promotion pool for 2023–2024.
She said that this was because the teachers had spent less than three years in their current grade. Nevertheless, Mosori noted, the grade was only disclosed to the public two years ago as a consequence of KUPPET’s advocacy work.
It has been urged by the KUPPET union that post-primary teachers stop using the Teacher Scale C5, as this will allow for a direct promotion from C4 to upper administrative positions. Additionally, even if they decide not to become school principals, it was advised that senior teachers at D4 be provided possibilities in non-administrative roles.
Even after TSC highlighted that the acting roles are non-compensable under Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) Circulars, the KUPPET union said that TSC’s practice on this is illegal, and as a result, many may seek legal action to settle this situation.