The Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) has decried lack of transparency in the recently released list of 36,505 promoted teachers by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC).
The union is raising the alarm over what it believes is lack of fairness in the just concluded promotional interviews by the teacher employer, TSC.
Speaking to Education News this evening, KUPPET Vihiga Executive Secretary Sabala Inyeni protested the small number of teachers who have been considered for these promotions.
“I have had a very busy day receiving phone calls from disgruntled teachers who don’t understand how they missed out on these promotions. It is only fair that TSC comes clean on this development,” Inyeni said.
Sabala is also concerned that the commission only published the teachers’ TSC number without indicating how many teachers were promoted in every grade, adding that many teachers who have stagnated in one job group and hoped to be promoted during this turn were left out.
“If they are honest enough, let them publish the breakdown of the number of teachers that got these promotions in each of the counties. You will be surprised at the distribution,” he added.
The same was echoed by his Nandi counterpart Paul Rotich, who said that he has been receiving calls the whole day from teachers who were left out in the promotions, some of them being those who have acted for over 10 years.
Rotich told Education News that he is not happy with the way the commission carried out the promotional process, claiming that the commission had shortchanged them.
This morning, TSC posted on its official website the TSC numbers of the teachers who have been promoted, leaving out their names and job groups.
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