Teachers laud education committee’s scrutiny of TSC over botched promotions

Teachers across the country have lauded the Education Committee’s thorough scrutiny of the January promotions, calling it the most commendable oversight exercise since Dr Nancy Macharia assumed office as TSC CEO.

Many tutors appeared perturbed by the commission’s failure to consider them despite their ages and attending interviews several times.

They described the committee’s probe as their sole hope of getting promoted after the commission failed to follow the score sheet it developed for January promotions.

“The score sheet clearly stated how marks were to be awarded. But the results were blatantly skewed to favour particular teachers,” said an angry elderly teacher from Busia County. He went further to say that those promoted were teachers who influential individuals selectively catapulted. We need the merit list detailing scores of individual teachers as a matter of transparency,” added the teacher.

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In a tense session with TSC officials led by the commission’s chair on Tuesday, May 20, the education committee blatantly dismissed TSC’s responses as lacking key data and asked them to be tabled.

The Commission eventually admitted that 5,291 teachers were promoted despite not finishing the three-year requirement as per the Career Progression Guidelines of 2017.

A number of teachers who stagnated in job group C3 wondered how some of their counterparts who were promoted to the same job group bypassed them after one year to job group C4.

“It is time that sanity must prevail in the commission,” said one Walela, a teacher at Kakamega County.

TSC is facing the toughest scrutiny at a time when its CEO is nearing the end of her thirty-year career with the commission.

A look at her body language in yesterday’s session painted a picture of a tired general who wishes the promotion tribulations would pass and pave the way for a smooth exit at the end of June.