- Evalyne Sanguya has challenged the requirement that applicants serve at least two years in their current job group.
- Sanguya has called for the eligibility period to be reduced to six months, arguing that teachers promoted in 2025 after delayed backlogs are being unfairly locked out of the current opportunities.
- She has urged TSC to publish a county-by-county breakdown of vacancies and fast-track review of the Career Progression Guidelines at the SRC
The re-advertisement of 1,631 teacher promotion vacancies by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has triggered calls for a review of the eligibility requirements, with KUPPET Bomet Branch Gender Secretary Evalyne Chepkirui Sanguya terming the current conditions unfair to teachers.
Sanguya welcomed the decision to re-advertise the positions, which include 132 Deputy Principal III posts in Job Group D1, 29 Senior Master II positions in D1 and 1,470 Deputy Headteacher II positions in C4.
However, she challenged TSC to reconsider the requirement that applicants must have served for at least two years in their current job group before qualifying for promotion, wanting the threshold reduced to six months and arguing that the two-year rule unfairly locks out teachers who were recently promoted after years of delays.
Using Bomet County as an example, Sanguya said many teachers currently serving in C3, C4 and C5 only secured promotions in 2025 following a prolonged backlog, and questioned how many such teachers would qualify for the newly advertised positions under the two-year requirement. “Teachers should not be punished today for administrative delays that were beyond their control,” she said.
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Sanguya also called on TSC to publish a county-by-county breakdown of the advertised vacancies, including the number of positions available in each cadre, arguing that transparency in the allocation of vacancies would enable teachers to understand opportunities available in their counties and guard against situations where some counties receive few or no vacancies. She further raised concern over the possibility of qualified teachers from other regions being transferred to fill substantive leadership positions in counties where local teachers may also be eligible.
Sanguya urged TSC to fast-track the review of the Career Progression Guidelines at the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC), saying this would help address long-standing concerns over teacher stagnation, adding that career progression should be guided by fairness, merit and equal opportunity. “Teacher stagnation has demoralised thousands of educators. A demoralised teacher cannot be expected to give their best under a system that continually denies them career progression,” she said.
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She urged TSC to make the promotion process more inclusive by removing what she termed unnecessary barriers to career advancement, saying reducing the current-job-group requirement to six months and providing clear information on vacancy allocations would restore confidence among teachers and promote fairness in the profession.
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