School Admins Successful during TSC interview pick letters

Promotional letters will start to be distributed starting the following week to deputies, senior teachers, and acting headteachers and principals who applied for advertised promotion openings.

The offices of the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) Sub County Directors will be where senior teachers and deputy headteachers pick up theirs.

Promotional letters will be available for Headteachers and Principals to pick up at the TSC County Directors’ offices.

The TSC headquarters released the final batch of letters, which are now being printed and sent to teachers by County and Sub County offices.

After passing interviews in their counties, a select group of senior teachers, masters and deputy headteachers/principals have already received their letters.

TSC first published an advertisement in December 2022 for 14,738 teacher promotions before removing it.

Subsequent applications were subsequently requested in January, March, and, most recently, May of this year.

The openings came about naturally through attrition. TSC has been given Sh1.1 billion in current budget (2023-2024) to be used for teacher promotion across various cadres.

The employer of the teachers requested applications from teachers for senior school administration posts in a third advertisement in May.

TSC Chief Executive Dr. Nancy Macharia claimed that two consecutive advertising had not been successful in luring the appropriate candidates to fill the positions.

In January and March of this year, the first and second calls for applications were issued.

The benefits of holding the top positions are likely to readily cause a rush for the jobs.

TSC nonetheless pleaded with competent teachers to fill approximately 1,001 openings within the next seven days in its May advertisement, though.

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There were 987 Deputy Head-teachers in conventional primary schools among them, in addition to eight principals and six deputy principals in Special Needs Education (SNE) schools.

Dr. Macharia reopened the application period from June 9–15 so that interested teachers could submit their applications.

According to the Commission, “The Commission works to make sure that teachers are promoted as a means to recognise and reward teachers’ effort and performance, align them for succession planning and career advancement, and motivate them to perform better in their duties and responsibilities,” said Dr. Macharia.

TSC published an advertisement for promotion jobs in January of this year, resulting in 14,738 instructors being promoted to fill open positions in schools, institutions, and other settings where teachers were occupying temporary roles.

TSC claimed that despite several requests to fill the posts, hundreds of schools continue to operate without heads of institutions and deputy heads of institutions because teachers failed to submit applications for jobs that were advertised.

In order to effectively manage public schools, “the Commission also has a responsibility to provide Institutional Administrators for public educational institutions,” added Dr. Macharia.

Special needs public schools with students who have special needs and disabilities are among the affected institutions.

Positions for Chief Principals, Principals, Deputy Principals, Deputy Principals, Head Teachers, Deputy Head Teachers, Senior Masters and Senior Teachers were posted by the employer of teachers.

In SNE schools, there were four teachers serving as head principals, eight principals, and fifteen deputy principals.

To increase the total to 7,747 teachers, the TSC sought 7,720 deputy head teachers to take over in normal primary schools.

However, only 5,155 teaching positions were filled, leaving 2,592 open positions.

According to Dr. Macharia, only one teacher has applied to be chief principal so far. Two teachers have applied to be deputy principals in SNE schools, while 5,152 deputy head teachers have been hired in conventional primary schools.

With the exception of the four main principal jobs, TSC re-advertised the positions two months later.

The commission received 1,591 applications overall, including 7 for principal positions and 3 for deputy principal positions, all in SNE schools.

For deputy head teacher posts in normal elementary schools, 1,581 teachers applied.

School Admins Successful during TSC interview pick letters