Teachers Service Commission, (TSC) has in a surprise turn of events dropped the much-loathed Career Progression Guidelines (CPG) and decided to make changes on how teacher’s promotions will be effected.
This comes few days after the end of Dr Nancy macharia’s decade of tyranny at Teachers Service Commission (TSC), a move teachers from all walks of life are describing as a new dawn with their employer.
This week, the TSC announced that teachers in non-administrative grades will automatically be promoted to new scales every three years void of interviews.
Previously under CPG, such teachers were required to undergo interviews so as to climb up the ladder.
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Now with the new policy at TSC, teachers at grades B5, C1, C2 to C3 will move to the next job groups after every three years of service.
Administrative cadres at C4 and C5 will however attract interviews as it has been with CPG. The change in promotion policy at TSC is seen as a way of redeeming trust that teachers had lost in their employer. CPG had become a thorn in the flesh for teachers especially for educators who were not in positions of responsibility who bore the brunt of job stagnation for many years.
Teachers with diploma qualifications also suffered a similar fate and had always been left out in promotional interviews for Grade C4 which they deserved.
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The Kenya Union of Post-Primary Teachers (KUPPET) noted this anomaly with the CPG and took up this matter with TSC promising to consider it in the next Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA).
Education stakeholders across the country are beginning to have trust with the leadership of the acting CEO, Evaleen Mitei because of her swift and sweeping reforms at TSC.
So far, Mitei has invited teachers’ unions for 2025-2029 CBA negotiations which many believe that the sticky issues on promotion of teachers will for once be addressed
By Naboth Murunga
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