The Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) has faulted the just released promotional list of teachers stating that the list is unfair calling on the country’s teacher employer, the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to recall the list.
Addressing the media today at the union headquarters in Nairobi, the union Deputy Secretary General Moses Nthurima, who is also the acting Secretary General stated that appropriating equal number of teachers across the counties was unfair given the staffing disparities across the counties.
“The KUPPET National Executive Board has received numerous complaints from teachers who feel unfairly left out of the just-concluded 2024/2025 promotions. As we warned several months ago, from the promotions list published by the TSC this morning, the TSC has apportioned the 25,252 promotional vacancies equally across the 47 counties,” said Nthurima.
“Given the disparities in staffing levels across the counties, such equal distribution is inherently flawed and unfair to teachers working in high- population areas. Counties with big teacher populations, such as Kiambu and Kakamega, have received the same number of opportunities as counties with just one tenth of their staffing,” he added.
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According to Nthurima, the clear implication is that teachers in smaller counties were highly highly favoured while their counterparts in densely populated counties continue to pile up merit lists due to high competition among qualified candidates.
On the other hand, the union has equally rejected the government’s proposal to make Mathematics an optional subject at Senior School level, noting that Maths is an essential subject for building a competent workforce for the 21st Century.
KUPPET maintains that Maths has a wide application in the learning of all other areas including humanities, sports, and STEM.
By Roy Hezron
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