The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has stepped up efforts to promote acting school administrators in arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL).
The commission has requested the Deputy County Directors of TSC to submit this along with the details of the teachers who have worked for at least three years.
The details that the commission seeks include the responsibility being performed by the teacher, such as deputy, headmaster etc. and the date on which the responsibility was assigned to him, the name and TSC number of the teacher as well as the school in which the school teacher is acting. serving capacity. ,
TSC had said in July last year that all teachers from difficult to staff area would be promoted on the basis of affirmative action.
Those to be confirmed include senior teachers and masters, deputy headmasters and school heads with acting abilities.
Teachers must have served in their current position for at least three years to be considered for promotion.
Teachers Service Commission (TSC) through circular number 14/2021 stated that the promotion of teachers will be as per the Career Progression Guidelines (CPG).
The teacher employer said that teachers working in ASAL and acting in difficult and administrative positions for staff areas would be progressively promoted until they attain grades commensurate with their respective positions.
Collins Oyu, general secretary of the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT), congratulated the move after signing the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) 2021 – 2025 with TSC in July last year.
Oyu clarified that what TSC has done is to list difficult areas for employees and maintain that they are placing administrators on acting ability regardless of their grades, which are employees in those administrative positions. . Will continue to serve in difficult areas until they achieve their respective grades for confirmation
Those fields are tough, but tough, for staff, which means, even the positions of headmaster and deputy, no one is willing to be there, and those who are there are also eligible for those positions. Not what we have in CBA. “They are promoted to work in those positions because they are tough for field workers and no one is ready to go there,” he said.
Oyu said what TSC is looking at is the interest of an individual teacher to serve in those areas under an acting capacity of administration, until the teacher achieves the full grade of administrator, a confirmation of teacher status. does not do acting first.
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However, to make the promotion of teachers possible, the commission will have to get additional funds in its budget.
Treasury Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani had allocated an additional Sh14.9 billion to the TSC, whose budget has increased from Sh281.7 billion to Sh296.6 billion in the new fiscal year.
However, in a report submitted by the Parliamentary Budget Office to the National Assembly’s Education and Research Committee, the TSC shows that it has specifically earmarked Sh15 billion to hire 13,000 secondary school teachers and 9,000 interns. have planned to utilize their increased allocation. With expected increase in exits and enrollments when Junior Secondary starts in January 2023. When TSC boss Nancy Macharia appeared before a parliamentary committee in early February to discuss TSC budget proposals, she said the commission would not be able to promote teachers with current funding.
He said allocation of MPs for other important areas such as promotion of teachers on competitive selection, roll-out of national biometric enrollment and verification of teachers and 3,358 contract tutors in northern Kenya were not included in the gratuity budget.
The commission would appreciate the help of Parliament to get some allocation for these sectors,” he said.
The commission would appreciate the help of Parliament to get some allocation for these sectors,” he said.
A total of 1,963 teachers were promoted after interviews conducted by the commission in November last year.
TSC interviewed 1,376 teachers working in the positions of heads and deputy heads of institutions in ASAL and hard-to-staff areas seeking promotion.
Shortlisted teachers were interviewed to fill 1,043 vacancies ranging from Grade C2 (TSC Scale 7 Senior Teacher 2) to Grade D5 (TSC Scale 15 Chief Principal).
Teacher employers conducted promotion interviews for 2,419 shortlisted teachers from 1 to 12 November 2021 at regional and county offices.
Teachers promoted vacancies filled from Grade C2-TSC Scale 7 (Senior Teacher II) to Grade D5 TSC Scale 15 (Chief Principal).
According to TSC Chief Executive Nancy Macharia, around 1,040 teachers under this category were given a hike in the pay scale. Another 923 teachers were promoted to the positions of chief and deputy chiefs in ASAL regions.
The interviews were conducted from November 1 to November 12. The details on promotion of teachers are contained in brief.
Official ASAL and hard-to-staff areas include;
1) Baringo North; TT East, TT West and Marakwet sub-counties in Baringo County
2) Garissa County
3) Suba and Mbita sub-counties in Homa Bay County
) Isiolo County
5) Mashuru, Loitoktok and Kajido West sub-counties in Kajido County
6) Kwale County
7) Bald in Margarine and Kilifi Counties
8) Lamu County
9) Mandera County
10) Marsabit County
11) Tsekuru Sub-Counties in Mumoni, Mutito North and Kitui Counties 12) Narok South and Narok North Sub-Counties in Narok County
13) Samburu County
14) Taita Taveta County
15) Tana River County
16) Turkana County
17) Wajir County
18) West Pokot County
