TSC Updated Teacher Honors requirements affect a number of teachers who want promotions.

TSC Updated Teacher Honors requirements affect a number of teachers who want promotions.

TSC Updated Requirements for Teacher Promotions, The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) is under pressure to fill the more than 15,000 open positions with principals and head teachers.

Teachers set for retirement

Surprisingly, the same number is scheduled to retire by the end of this year’s July.

Deputy Principals,

Deputy Headteachers,

Senior Teachers,

Senior Masters

The above are also in extremely high demand at many schools.

However, the Commission is the one who created this issue.

This is as a result of TSC making it more challenging for teachers to advance to positions as school administrators.

Since the Career Progression Guidelines (CPG) were implemented and Schemes of Service (SoS) were eliminated, it is currently difficult for a classroom teacher to serve as a school administrator.

The Commission is currently being urged to relax the qualifications needed for teachers to serve as administrators by teachers’ unions Knut and Kuppet.

The employer of the teachers recently requested teachers to submit applications for senior school administration jobs for the third time.

SC’s chief executive officer, Dr. Nancy Macharia, said that two consecutive advertising had failed to draw in the appropriate candidates to fill the positions.

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

The action now draws attention to the reasons why teachers are not clamouring to fill the roles of deputy principals, principals and chief principals.

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

TSC, meanwhile, continues to beg qualified teachers to fill approximately 1,001 openings within the following week in a new advertisement.

There are 987 deputy head teachers in conventional primary schools and eight principals and six deputy principals who work in Special Needs Education (SNE) schools.

TSC Revised Teacher Promotions Requirements

One extra opportunity has been offered by Dr. Macharia for interested instructors to apply between July 9 and July 15.

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
• Senior Teachers

The above positions 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 requested an additional 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.

TSC Updated Teacher Honors requirements affect a number of teachers who want promotions.

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