- The number will include a total of 11,258 teachers on Common Cadre Promotions, another 13,717 teachers on competitive promotion and 1,021 teachers on affirmative action.
By Education News reporter
Teachers Service Commission (TSC) plans to promote a total of 11,258 teachers on the common cadre in the current 2022/2023 Financial Year (FY) which is ending June 30, 2023. This is in addition to several other cadres that are lined up for upgrade.
This is revealed in the response by the TSC Secretary and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr. Nancy Macharia to the Departmental Committee on Education. She had been required to file a report on the controversial teachers’ medical cover, recruitment, promotion and delocalization.
In the document seen by Education News, the total number will entail 5,436 primary school teachers who will be promoted from grade B5 (Primary Teacher II) to C1 (Primary Teacher II), a total of 614 teachers from grade C1 to C2, and 5,208 from C2 to C3.
“For the year 2022/2023, the commission, subject to budgetary provision, shall in line with Regulation 74 of (Code of Regulations for Teachers) CORT promote a total of 11,258 teachers in the common cadre promotions,” said Dr. Macharia in the report.
According to the data, Kakamega will have the highest number of promotions under this category with a total of 551 teachers, who will include 227 teachers from B5 to C1, 36 from C1 to C2, and 288 from C3 to C4.
Garissa County on the other hand will have the lowest number of 38 teachers, being 21 from B5 to C1, one from C1 to C2, and 16 from C2 to C3.
Accordingly, the commission plans to promote another 13,717 teachers on competitive promotion and 1,021 on affirmative action in arid and semi-arid land (ASAL) and ‘Hard to Staff’ areas in the FY.
On the other hand, the commission also revealed that it had identified a total of 7,282 serving primary school teachers with requisite qualifications to be deployed to Junior Secondary School (JSS).
More mapping to identify eligible primary school teachers to serve in JSS is ongoing to address the shortages, with the qualifications being possession of either a Diploma in Education or a Bachelor’s Degree in Education, at least a C+ mean grade in KCSE or its equivalent, at least a C+ in two teaching subjects, and at least 8 units in each of the two teaching subjects.
According to Dr. Macharia, the commission has been addressing teacher shortage in secondary schools by promoting and deploying primary school teachers since 2019.
TSC promoted a total of 4,006 teachers in the FY 2019/2020 and 16,032 in the FY 2020/2021, while in 2019/20 FY the commission promoted a total of 5,034 teachers and 94,176 in the 2020/2021 FY on common cadre.
On teachers who have acted for long without being confirmed, the commission stated that despite the requirements set out in the Policy on Appointment and Deployment of Institutional Administrators, teachers who have acted as institutional administrators have an added advantage during interviews as they are awarded marks on the number of years they have been acting.
The commission recruited 30,550 teachers recently and posted them to JSS but still faces a shortage of 30,550 given that Grade 7 requires 61,100 teachers.
9,000 of them will serve on permanent and pensionable terms while 21,550 will be on internship.
Projected Common Cadre promotions per county in 2022/2023 FY
SN County B5-C1 C1-C2 C2-C3 Total 1 Kakamega 227 36 288 551 2 Bungoma 230 37 262 529 3 Kitui 279 18 206 503 4 Meru 239 18 220 477 5 Kisii 213 13 211 437 6 Nakuru 170 21 235 426 7 Homa-Bay 196 19 186 401 8 Kiambu 155 16 210 381 9 Makueni 170 16 186 372 10 Machakos 156 17 191 364 11 Murang’a 146 36 170 352 12 Kericho 175 24 131 330 13 Siaya 160 16 146 322 14 Migori 132 19 170 321 15 Bomet 147 17 143 307 16 Uasin-Gishu 124 9 144 277 17 Trans-Nzoia 116 18 141 275 18 Kisumu 133 9 124 266 19 Kilifi 125 12 128 265 20 Nandi 139 18 107 264 21 Nyamira 134 7 99 240 22 Nyandarua 120 15 103 238 23 Busia 112 10 109 231 24 Nairobi 131 5 95 231 25 Nyeri 115 33 83 231 26 Baringo 121 14 87 222 27 Narok 125 10 87 222 28 Vihiga 97 14 106 217 29 Embu 100 12 95 207 30 Tharaka-Nithi 92 12 100 204 31 West-Pokot 84 11 90 185 32 Elgeyo-Marakwet 73 12 79 164 33 Kirinyaga 73 13 72 158 34 Kwale 99 3 50 152 35 Turkana 85 7 38 130 36 Laikipia 61 9 53 123 37 Kajiado 65 5 34 104 38 Taita-Taveta 46 11 41 98 39 Marsabit 60 2 22 84 40 Tana-River 43 3 19 65 41 Mombasa 22 6 27 55 42 Samburu 33 6 14 53 43 Wajir 19 1 29 49 44 Lamu 26 1 20 47 45 Mandera 20 Nil 27 47 46 Isiolo 27 2 14 43 47 Garissa 21 1 16 38 Grand-Total 5,436 614 5,208 11,258
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