Delocalized Teachers To Pick Transfer Letters In Their Counties
Delocalized Teachers To Pick Transfer Letters In Their Counties
Delocalized Teachers To Pick Transfer Letters In Their Counties
Delocalized Teachers To Pick Transfer Letters In Their Counties
Officials from the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) have urged delocalized teachers to stop by the TSC County Directors’ offices to inquire about the transfer letters that are now available.
Most transfer requests for delocalized teachers in the areas were handled by TSC Regional Directors.
A number of educators who picked up their transfer letters from respective TSC County offices have acknowledged receiving them.
The majority of transfers were accepted according to Commission officials, notably for teachers whose transfers were acknowledged.
Before the start of the new school year, TSC had said it would fulfill transfer requests for 21,544 delocalized teachers.
The Commission intended to grant the requests for intra- and interregional transfers and publish the letters early in May.
Most instructors who requested transfers outside of their regions during the most recent transfer approvals were not taken into account.
Pressure is mounting on the Commission to send delocalized teachers home. TSC CEO Dr. Nancy Macharia said before the Senate that procedures have been put in place to make it simple to transfer the instructors back to their home regions.
As a result, criteria like the five-year limit and the availability of suitable replacements that previously prevented teachers from being transferred would no longer be taken into account.
At first, transfers were based on vacancies at the station, the need for replacement, current staffing standards, and medical justifications that were approved by a licensed physician.
However, Macharia informed the senate committee on education that the necessity for equitable distribution and effective use of instructors underlies the transfer of teachers from one school to another.
It was discovered this week that Nairobi City County is the area that instructors looking for transfers want the most.
TSC reported that between November 1 of last year and January 31 of this year, 36,277 teachers made transfer requests in a document to the Senate Committee on Education.
Not all teachers requested to be transferred to their home counties, according to the paper that Director of Legal, Labour, and Industrial Relations Cavin Anyuor signed on behalf of Macharia.
“Some transfer requests are for moves to counties that are not the applicants’ homes. The commission cannot order a teacher to submit an application to be transferred to a specific county because it is an employer. Similar to the above, the commission cannot reject a transfer request only because a teacher has not requested to be transferred to his or her home county, according to the text.
The employer of the instructors also cautioned against what she called the misconception of the delocalization policy’s reversal, which would require teachers to now teach not only in their home counties but also in their villages.
According to TSC, regions who have not generated enough of their own teachers will experience understaffing if the commission relocates every teacher to their home counties.
According to Tsc, locations that have an abundance of teachers will be overstaffed, wasting resources, with desert and semi-arid regions and hard-to-staff areas suffering the most.
The TSC further concluded that before acting on a transfer request, the commission must first make sure that the station a teacher is leaving has a suitable substitute and that there is a vacancy in the selected station.
Following the government’s decision to send teachers to their home counties, TSC is putting the delocalization policy into practice.
Additionally, data provided to the Senate by the commission showed that the majority of teachers favor working in Nairobi City County.
1,885 teachers applied to be transferred to the capital city during that time, while 76 asked to be transferred outside of Nairobi.
By the end of January, TSC had granted about 41 requests out of 1,162 for primary schools and four out of 723 for high institutions.
In the same time frame, only one secondary school teacher left the city while 45 primary school teachers did.
With 1,336 teachers, Bungoma county received the most transfer requests from elementary school teachers who wanted to relocate.
There were 1,074 teachers who requested to be transferred outside of Bungoma County.
Secondary school teachers also prefer Mombasa County, with 340 of them applying to relocate to the Coastal City compared to 55 who requested to leave.
After receiving 237 transfer requests for teachers in secondary schools as opposed to 94 requests to be transferred outside of the county, Kajiado County also became one of the most popular counties.
In the county, 486 primary school teachers applied for employment, compared to 434 who requested to be transferred elsewhere.
However, the Head of Institution (HOI), Sub County Director (SCD), and County Director (CD) have all issued warnings against delocalized teachers who transfer without receiving an official release.
