Primary school teachers who will be deployed to teach junior secondary school will be promoted in January during the roll out of the new level.
The teachers will be added to the 30,550 the government is employing to teach junior secondary.
This will be a relief for thousands of teachers in lower job groups who have acquired diploma and degree qualifications, the minimum requirements to teach in JSS.
Mr. Calvin Anyuor the director of legal and industrial relations at TSC said that currently the Commission is mapping those teachers and shortly, they will have the numbers right.
Calvin was representing
TSC CEO when the commissioners appeared before the Education and Research committee of the National Assembly to give information on the promotion of teachers.
The commission has been accused of failing to promote some teachers even though they have the necessary qualifications. Some of the teachers have been in acting capacities for a long time without promotion while others retired before they could be promoted.
Last week, Ms Macharia also appeared before the commission on the same matter and the controversial delocalisation policy.
Teachers’ unions have previously put the number of teachers due for a promotion at about 17,000.
Mr Anyuor added that some teachers who hold qualifications to teach junior secondary might be unwilling to be deployed there because they hold administrative positions in primary schools.
The chair of the committee, Mr Paul Melly, asked the commission to map out the staff needs for junior high throughout the country, and the teachers who will be promoted from primary schools and present the data to the committee.
The chair of the TSC, Dr Jamleck Muturi, said that the mapping started in September.We’re progressively mapping out and looking at natural attrition because there are those who are already qualified but by end of this month, they’ll retire,” he said.
TSC estimates that about 15,000 teachers will exit the service through natural attrition and the vacancies will be advertised.
In June, the National Assembly recommended that the TSC should continue recognising and acknowledging higher qualifications acquired by teachers while in service.
In accordance with Unesco/ILO recommendations of 1966 that codifies intellectual rights of teachers who undertake and conclude relevant in-service courses,” reads a report of the committee that was adopted
