Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has been called upon to revert to the Scheme of Service over the punitive career progression guidelines (CPG) introduced in 2007.
Demoralized teachers sent a strong warning to Teachers Service Commission,(TSC) over the continued stagnation in one job group for over one decade and a half. The teachers who jammed the Education news platform seem to be saddened by the late comer tendency by their unions in addressing their promotions plight.
On Tuesday this week, parliamentary education committee hard pressed the TSC CEO Dr Nancy Macharia over a huge number of teachers who continue to stagnate in one job group over years.
The committee expressed its concern over suspected favoritism and unequal distribution of promotion slots across the country. The issue, according to the committee chair Julius Melly, has resulted to low morale amongst the tutors.
This prompted the teachers to come out strongly to blame the career progression guidelines, (CPG) developed and adopted by TSC in 2017.
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“TSC came up with CPG to curtail our upward movement. We were okay with scheme of service that ensured seamless movement after every three years. Right now, your former pupils will enter the profession and surpass you. CPG is quite unfair to us” lamented Odongo who attended two interviews without success.
Responding to the Education committee on delayed promotions, Dr. Macharia blamed hiccup on limited funding from the exchequer to hasten the process. However, the committee seem to have been irked by delay in promotion of over 178,000 teachers as alluded by the Commission’s Secretary.
The tutors seem to agree that, had the schemes of service (SOS) been in place, the issue of stagnation would not be there. Schemes of service, according to the majority who were reached, ensured movement from one job group to the other after satisfactory ratings every three years, lamenting that CPG came with interviews which, to many of them are just formalities as they yield little expectations.
Two weeks ago, Lugari Member of Parliament Nabii Nabwera, threatened to table a motion in parliament to dissolve TSC over favoritism, discrimination, tribalism and lack of regional balance in the just concluded promotions that have generated a lot of dissatisfaction.
As promotion nightmare continue to plaque the teaching fraternity, the commission is expected to do an audit of the much hyped CPG in a bid to stem its growing dissent from the teachers.
It is time that its overhaul or a thorough repeal of it in order to ensure the tutors are motivated and dispense their services with ease.
By Kaptich Tarus.
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