How TSC plans to resolve teachers transfer

Teachers who applied for transfers to be taken back to their local areas will not be required to find swaps.

TSC will take up the challenge to find a teacher who will replace the transferred teacher.

On Tuesday some MPs raised concern saying some applicants had been requested to find swaps.

Education committee vice chair Malulu Injendi inquired why some teachers were asked to find their own replacements.

“Kindly clarify why some teachers have been asked to look for another teacher to replace them when they leave,” Injendi said.

TSC CEO Nancy Macharia said it is the commission’s mandate to find a replacement.

“No teacher will be asked to find their swap. It is up to us TSC to find who will replace them,” Macharia told MPs.

But in the event that a replacement is not found, TSC will still find an alternative way out.

“We will keep the teachers’ details in our data bank until we find a replacement for them,” Macharia said.

But, school principals and deputy principals will have to wait longer for the TSC to approve their transfers.

KNUT secretary general Collins Oyuu said the employer will have to find vacancies to approve their transfers.

“We want appointments and promotion of principals to be done within the counties they are in and not far,” Oyuu said.

Kuppet secretary general Akello Misori also said teachers who are comfortable in their current stations are free to retain them.

Misori was speaking during a press briefing.

“We have agreed with our employer that all teachers who were delocalised should apply for transfers,” he said.

The teachers have been asked to use the remaining weeks of the third term to submit their applications.

“We have three national exams in waiting so instead of interfering, they can express the interest then it will be dealt with in January,” Misori said.

The scrapping of the delocalisation policy comes after MPs compelled TSC to review the policy.

The motion fronted by Lurambi MP Titus Khamala was passed in Parliament on November 3.

Khamala had written the motion seeking to immediately reverse the ongoing process of delocalising teachers from their workstations.

“Review the teacher recruitment policy to devolve it to zonal level as the point of recruitment,” he said.

This means if TSC is to transfer a teacher, they should be moved to a different school within the zone they work