TSC To Give The Following Teachers First Priority in Promotion
TSC To Give The Following Teachers First Priority in Promotion
Teachers who have served in acting roles will be given priority during teacher promotions, according to clarification provided by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) yesterday.
Jamleck Muturi, the chair of the TSC board, and Calvin Anyuor, the head of legal services, testified before MPs that they had taken intentional steps to guarantee that deputy headteachers who have been serving in that capacity would be the first to be promoted.
The pair explained why some deputies had not received promotions when they came before MPs, claiming that they had not complied with the standards for promotion.
He claimed that the job evaluation report categorized the grades of different teachers in national, county, extra-county, and sub-county schools.
“We are going to ensure that the teachers get first priority. However, it cannot happen automatically because after the job evaluation criteria were done, schools were categorised from national, extra-county and sub-counties and the same were given grades and therefore, these grades must be met,” Anyuor said.
The commission regretted, however, that over the previous ten years they had not received additional budgetary allocations for the promotion of teachers, with the exception of the money allocated in July 2017 for a salary review based on the results of the job evaluation report produced by the Salaries and Remuneration Commission.
Natural attrition
The sentiments by the duo came after Lugari MP Nabii Nabwera raised concern that some of the deputies who have been in an acting capacity have never been promoted.
Meanwhile, the committee which is chaired by Tinderet MP Julius Melly gave the commission up to January 31 to ensure all teachers who had been delocalised have been transferred to their areas.
Melly told the commission not to belabour the matter but to ensure it tables a report on how it plans to implement the said move after the National Assembly made a decision on the said policy.
The move came after it emerged that about 14,733 teachers as of November last year had requested transfers from their current workstations following the abolishment of the policy on delocalisation of teachers.
Delocalization policy
Said Melly: “We do not want stories, just tell us when you are going to do this, please table a report here for us to see. This policy was abolished and we cannot go back to it because we know that some of you use it to punish teachers.”
Nancy Macharia, the chief executive of TSC, informed MPs last week that the mapping out of the aforementioned teachers is still ongoing to make sure they are placed in the regions they have requested.
Members of the National Assembly passed a motion calling for the repeal of the 2018 starting policy in November.
The lawmakers then instructed the commission to launch a thorough examination of the teacher deployment policy with teacher input in order to bring the policy into compliance with the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) and UNESCO regulations and procedures on teacher management and deployment.
