The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) will from Monday March 4, 2024 start sending promotional letters to 36,505 successful teachers who attended promotional interviews last year.
Speaking during a recent Annual Delegates Meeting for Mwalimu National Sacco, TSC Chairman Dr. Jamleck Muturi said that the Commission has finalised everything relating to promotion of the said teachers and that from Monday next week the letters will start flowing to various counties and sub- counties.
He also disclosed that the process of updating the payroll for the promoted teachers will follow immediately once the letters are dispatched to enable the teachers earn their enhanced salaries to commensurate with their new grades, adding that from March last year to February this year; TSC has promoted over 51,000 teachers.
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“We have finalised everything and we are going to promote 36,505 teachers. What I want to say is that the letters will start flowing from Monday then the process of updating the payroll will follow immediately so that you start walking to the banks with dignity,” said Dr. Muturi.
Last month, there was anxiety among primary school teachers who attended promotional interviews in December last year, with most of them wondering why the Commission was taking long to release the results.
TSC conducted promotional interviews to fill the 36,053 vacancies that were advertised in August last year in three phases; the first phase was conducted at the sub-county level targeting promotional Grades C1 to C5 in primary schools, and were held from December 4 to 15, 2023.
The positions included Head teacher in regular primary schools and Special Needs Primary School T-Scale 10 where a total of 1,049 positions and 30 positions will now be filled respectively, and Deputy Head teacher II in regular primary schools T-scale 9 with 1,930 which will now have office holders.
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Other positions that will now be filled include 3,040 and 346 positions for Senior Teacher I in regular primary schools and SNE Primary schools T-scale 8 respectively, and 10,819 and 700 posts for Senior Teacher II in both regular and SNE Primary schools at T-scale 7 respectively.
The second phase of the interviews, recently concluded, targeted post-primary teachers seeking promotions in grades C3 to D1 at the County level, started from January 4 to 16, 2024.
These included Deputy Principal III in Regular Secondary Schools at T-scale 11 where a total of 1,014 positions will now be filled and Senior Master III in Regular Secondary Schools with 1,137 positions to be filled.
The Senior Lecturer IV position in Teacher Training Colleges at T-scale 9 had 216 positions, Senior Master IV in regular secondary schools at T-scale 9 had a whopping 12,576 positions up for grabs by secondary school teachers, while the Secondary Teacher I post in regular secondary schools T-scale 8 had only 1,918 positions to be filled.
The third phase of the promotional interviews involved post-primary administrators seeking promotions in grades D2 to D5, and were conducted at Regional levels on February 4 to -16, 2024.
The promotion will be as follows: Chief Principal in Regular Secondary Schools at T-scale 15 where 34 Principals to be promoted, Senior Principal in Regular Secondary Schools T-scale 14 with 103 positions, Principal in regular secondary school at T-scale 13 with 541 positions, Deputy Principal II in Regular Secondary Schools T-scale 12 with 528 positions, and Senior Lecturer I T-scale 12 with 72 positions.
TSC has also promised to employ 20,000 teachers this financial year.
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