Each school hosting JSS will have two deputies; Current Deputy Head teachers will be promoted to Deputy Principals.
The plans presented by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) foresee that the headteachers of the primary schools that will host the junior secondary schools starting next year will be promoted.
In accordance with this concept, 400,000 teachers will also be assigned to primary and junior secondary school, which will eventually become comprehensive schools.
Under this new configuration, the current deputy headteachers of these schools will become deputy principals. These entities will be supervised by two deputies.
For Principals and Deputies , a bachelor’s degree in any field of education will be required. To be promoted to the positions of Principal and deputy principal, headteachers and deputies who currently occupy these positions must have at least a college diploma. These Headteachers and deputies will teach in Junior Secondary schools, which are currently facing a shortage of teachers.
Headteachers will be promoted to the next job group from job group C5 to job group D1 and senior headteachers from job group D1 will be promoted to job group D2. Their promotion continues little by little until they reach the D5 job group, similar to the principals of secondary schools and teachers training colleges.
The TSC has already requested additional data for principals and their deputies via an Excel template to start this process.
The principal will be the signatory of all school bank accounts, covering nursery, primary and junior schools (complex schools). The commission aims to promote 12,000 teachers this fiscal year, allocating 3,000 positions for secondary schools and 9,000 for primary and junior schools.
This month, the CEO of TSC, Dr Nancy Macharia, revealed that 36,504 teachers have been promoted in the 2023-2024 financial year. She emphasized that through this, 71,212 teachers have been promoted in the last five years. Macharia says that to promote more teachers, the government has allocated $1 billion for the 2024-2025 financial year.
TSC now employs more than 223,296 teachers in primary schools and plans to add another 120,923 in secondary schools.
The total number of teachers employed in primary and secondary schools is currently 347,000.
