The release of the latest promotional interviews results is causing a lot of hue and cry of desperation from mainly aged teachers who say were left out across the country.
It is emerging that from the numbers posted on the TSC website, a number of teachers who were above 50 years are again not finding their details from the lucky lot after years of anticipation.
Education news has learnt that activities were paralyzed in most schools on Tuesday as affected teachers engaged the techno-savvy colleagues in trying to find out whether TSC had rewarded their years of service as it had promised in the interview score sheet.
As it were in the December 2023 and January 2024 interview, most teachers aged between 50 and 55 years found themselves reeling under desperation after they failed to get their TSC numbers in the long list of over 24000 teachers.
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“I have Searched severally but the results remain not found or sometimes no marching” said a senior teacher in Nandi county.
In another development, it is emerging that out of the 25,000 promoted teachers, 75% are mainly primary school teachers while secondary school counterparts took the remaining 25%.
Early this week, KUPPET had raised their concerns over the manner in which TSC promoted teachers especially their members.
Claims over how TSC is conducting its affairs in the recent times, continues to draw a lot of criticism from many stakeholders in the education sector.
The most disturbing scenario happened a week ago when politicians across the country were seen distributing what they said were employment letters to potential job seekers who are trained teachers.
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Now teachers are questioning the promotion list as TSC comes under the microscope over its credibility. Those who spoke to this newspaper in confidence are questioning how they missed out in the vertical movements given the nature of the score sheet provided earlier before the interviews.
“I don’t think these promotions are based on the score sheets we saw before the interviews. I knew I had a huge advantage because of my age and I was as confident just as my peers that this time, we would be lucky. Now I am 57 and I have lost any hope of getting a handsome retirement as a result of an anticipated higher grade.” said one teacher from Nyeri.
Most teachers argued that the new round of disappointments goes to underscore the failure of the controversial Career Progression Guidelines introduced in 2017.
They say they are failing to meet its intended purposes as far as teachers promotions and advancement is concerned. They say they should now be discarded or overhauled completely.
By Kaptich Tarus.
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