The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has outlined a plan to promote primary school headteachers whose schools are hosting junior secondary schools starting next year.
In its plan the Commission also seeks to have a total of 400,000 teachers to serve in primary and junior school section which will be known as comprehensive schools.
TSC will also promote the current deputy headteachers in those schools to serve as deputy principals under the new arrangement that will see the institutions being run by two deputies.
The principals and deputies will be required to be graduates possessing a bachelors degree in any field in education.
However the current headteachers and deputies will be required to have at least a diploma for them to be promoted to principal and deputy principal status.
The headteachers and deputies will handle lessons in junior school which is grappling with shortage of teachers.
The headteachers will be moved from their current job groups to the next. Those in job group C5 will be promoted to job group D1 while the senior headteachers in job group D1 will be moved to job group D2.
Their promotion will be progressive till they attain job group D5 just like the principals of secondary schools and teacher training colleges (TTC’s).
TSC already requested additional data, through an excel template, for the headteachers and their deputies for commencement of the exercise.
The principal will be a signatory to all school bank accounts from pre-primary, primary and junior school (comprehensive school).
This financial year the Commission is planning to promote 12,000 teachers in the 2024 – 2025 financial year where 9,000 posts will go to primary and junior and 3,000 posts to secondary schools.
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.
Currently TSC has around 223,296 teachers in primary schools and plans to have a total of 120,923 teachers in junior secondary.
Currently the number of teachers in both primary and secondary schools stands at 347,000 teachers.
Does TSC promote a graduate Headteacher who is currently handling feeder school which their learners were being promoted to another comprehensive schools, What’s the fate of this HEADTEACHER’S?
What about Senior Teachers in those Schools.Why are they ever forgotten as though they do not matter much or even at all.They do donkey work but they are not even mentioned.l think this is unfair.Please do something for senior teachers as well.
Someone should inform the TSC that the teachers they look lowly upon do the donkey work and not those school heads, pay teachers better, c1-c3 are the real donkeys in every field, some heads sit the whole month.
Deputy head teachers the ones who have the heaviest work has no advocate, KEPSHA fights only for head teachers leaving deputies hanging.sad
Senior secondary school teachers are mistreated in Kenya and nobody cares.
Tsc has concentrated on school admins and forgotten about other teachers for long…one day God will give the commission a CEO who is fair to all..God is watching
Tsc has concentrated on school admins and forgotten about other teachers for long…one day God will give the commission a CEO who is fair to all..God is watching
Nothing in store for the non admins.
It s true, the C1,C2 and C3 s realy carries donkey work yet Head trs relax without lessons
Iam already earning senior headteachers salary but my grade is Dht 2, where will they place me?
Most teachers in C2 & C3 have stack in those grades for more than 6 years!!! During promotion TSC allocate slots less than an 1/8 of the number!!
Tsc has to turn the tables atleast for once and uplift teachers …..we have been in acting capacity for many years now…
This is unfair
TSC should keenly look into trs grading as per qualifications and long term service issues
No one cares for seniors teachers working like a donkey for 15 years yet nothing
When will the commission implement the Thorny issues of implantation of teachers CBA? A NEAR STRIKE IS NEAR.
Why have you forgotten about other teachers you only talk about deputies and headteachers how about other teachers who have stagnated in one job group for more than ten years??????
Its high time tsc realizes the work done by class room teachers and then start appreciating them.
How about D3s who have stagnated for over 15 years?. Nobody commits to think about them. Sad!
It’s ironical the so called Hts were christened as Hoi’s .. as though that’s not enough,elevated as principals of comprehensive schools
A point of concern is ,why is Tsc unwilling to advertise those vacancies as earlier stated in JSS?
Again, almost a third of them are mere P1!
How are graduate teachers in Jss handled by these guys who depict injustices in administration of Jss full of envy, sarcasm and jealous of graduate teachers?
Those who have will be given more and those with little,,, even the little will be taken away ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ž
What about deputy headteachers?
The pioneer principals of jss who have retired after implementing CBC and jss successfully should be rewarded by the TSC for a job well done
Dht are the donkeys but remain as dht for decades.even the December promotion didn’t do much for most especially from kilifi south.i still wonder why??
The teachers recently promoted to Grade C5 ate the most disadvantaged. They had their salary slashed by 2k.They have nothing to show for promotion despite being christened Senior Masters! TSC should have mercy on these calibre of teachers!
The teachers recently promoted to Grade C5 ate the most disadvantaged. They had their salary slashed by 2k.They have nothing to show for promotion despite being christened Senior Masters! TSC should have mercy on these calibre of teachers!
The outcry of teachers in this nation is too much.Being a kenyan teacher with the rising indiscipline by learners, low key motivation prejudiced and tribal leadership and biased appointments leaves teachers gazing to the outside world yearning for the moment a lesson will be over so that we can be out of sight.Teachers ,just like any other kenyan need to meet their financial obligations but with the current salary cuts through heavy taxes and union dues makes my heart to drft outside.
Now I know why when we were growing up and our parents were disciplining us by use of a cain,why we never cared to look at their faces.Only stretch your right arm to the count of Ten.That’s it.The donkey is wearied now.
Tsc should come on the ground and find real workload of trs before promotion the so called admin don’t do any work instead make technical appearance at school yet you keep on promising them goodies forgetting the real tr .it is the highest time tsc recognize the effort of regular tr because it is these trs that make the so called school heads to be recognized pls something to be dot
Our heads and deputies only sit down and wait for you to make a mistake and call you they only come to school very early but they do not enter any class they only keep time in and out
At last somebody has remembered heads of institutions. I can’t remember the last when they were considered for even an interview. We only find ourselves giving recommendations to teachers when going for interviews.
Taking to long to promote Hois with comprehensive schools.
Heads of Institution have a lot of work in a comprehensive school, they deserve to move from C5.. D1 then UpTo D5,
They have same qualifications as in senior schools
Oh my God! It’s like classroom teachers are besieged to remain in C1 forever while their admin counterparts are swimming in riches and demeaning them. We are almost worshipping them as they deem themselves as demi gods. One fine day, God will remember us!
Are P1 HT or they principals qualified to head COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOLS???