TSC start to identify long serving deputies for promotion to headship

Deputy headteachers and principals are now set to be handed schools to act as Heads of Institutions (HOI).

In an excel template, the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has directed County Directors to submit details of primary and secondary school deputy headteachers who have served for at least eight years.

TSC is reacting to huge number of vacancies created in schools following mass retirement of headteachers on 30th June this year.

Around four hundred thousand teachers retired in June with a significant number being headteachers.

In December 2023 a total of two thousand four hundred headteachers were retired and most of their posts are yet to be filled.

The Commission is planning to promote 12,000 teachers in the 2024 – 2025 financial year where 9,000 posts will go to primary and 3,000 posts to secondary schools.

Curriculum Support Officers (CSO) are under instructions to avail additional information on C4 deputy headteachers in primary schools so that they can be promoted to vacant schools on acting capacity.

The deputies will be posted to schools in sub counties where there are vacancies.

In September last year TSC advertised a total of 35,505 promotion vacancies. Of these 1,049 were for promotion of primary deputies in C4 to headteacher position (C5) in regular schools.

TSC also promoted 30 deputies in special primary schools to headteacher position.

A total of 541 deputy principals were promoted from job group D2 to D3 as principals.

Last month TSC CEO Dr. Nancy Macharia said that a total of 36,504 teachers were promoted during the 2023 – 2024 financial year.

This she said has brought the number of teachers promoted over the last five years to 71,212.

Macharia said the government has allocated sh 1 billion for promotion of more teachers in the 2024 – 2025 financial year.