Good News As TSC Promotes 115000 Teachers and Registers 42000

Teachers across the country have reason to be happy after the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) promoted 115,000 teachers and registered a further 42,000.

The Commission is carrying out the difficult task of satisfying teachers as well as ensuring teachers who have acquired the required qualifications are registered as they await to be recruited into service.

However, thousands are still waiting on their promotion amid confusion over the criteria the Commission employs in upgrading teachers.

In the promotion exercise, 115,110 teachers have been promoted in line with the Career Progression Guidelines (CPG) while a further 42,795 new teachers have been registered in the 2020/2021 Financial Year (FY).

According to the Commission’s Annual Report and Audited Financial Statements 2020/2021 tabled in Parliament on the 19^th of May 2022, 99,078 out of the total number of promoted teachers were upgraded under the Common Cadre Establishment.

A further 15,047 were promoted via competitive selection and 625 institutional administrators from ten Arid and Semi-Arid Areas (ASAL) counties were promoted affirmative action.

The data from the Commission’s Staffing Directorate 2021 report shows that out of the competitive selection for promotion, 8,622 were male while 6,785 were female.

This category included the cadres of 1,096 Deputy Principal II (49 female and 607 male); 39 for Senior Lecturer I 24 female and 15 male); 1,590 Deputy Principal III (713 female and 877 male), 209 Curriculum Support Officers (CSOs) who include 56 female and 153 male, and 2,111 Headteachers (639 female and 1,472 male).

Other cadres include 36 Deputy Headteacher II (at Grade C4), 248 Senior Master IV t grade C4, 38 Secondary Teacher I (at grade C3), 53 Senior Teacher I (at grade C3, and one female Secondary Teacher II (at grade C2) 37 Senior Teacher II at grade C2 and 93 Primary Teacher I at grade C1.

The report also reveals that during the period under review, 94,176 teachers got promoted under the Common Cadre Establishment. The table below shows more details.

COUNTY	B5 TO C1		C1 TO C2		C2 TO C3		TOTALS
	M	F	M	F	M	F
Baringo	675	920	40	52	66	96	1849
Bomet	783	929	85	71	107	99	2074
Bungoma	1761	2324	158	83	179	118	4623
Busia	956	1284	59	43	86	78	2506
Elgeyo-Marakwet	468	579	29	24	64	66	1230
Embu	374	670	53	35	57	42	1231
Garissa	104	50	18	1	32	7	212
Homa-Bay	1410	1503	115	48	148	68	3292
Isiolo	187	182	7	5	18	6	405
Kajiado	465	707	12	8	30	13	1235
Kakamega	2035	2905	145	94	207	134	5520
Kericho	898	1243	64	41	86	96	2428
Kiambu	523	1432	54	62	146	184	2401
Kilifi	1242	1401	67	42	83	64	2899
Kirinyaga	284	476	48	47	58	58	971
Kisii	1492	1519	110	73	173	124	3491
Kisumu	1062	1472	69	46	123	92	2864
Kitui	1552	2100	79	48	131	142	4052
Kwale	769	803	31	17	50	28	1698
Laikipia	334	477	31	24	55	30	951
Lamu	153	201	7	1	19	9	390
Machakos	1198	1983	62	75	150	121	3589
Makueni	1255	1841	87	67	130	94	3474
Mandera	239	63	10	0	82	9	403
Marsabit	278	149	14	2	37	10	490
Meru	1205	1912	97	74	197	157	3642
Migori	1417	1496	105	45	142	65	3270
Mombasa	151	387	10	14	33	25	620
Murang’a	556	981	76	72	164	163	2012
Nairobi	296	697	24	24	72	99	1212
Nakuru	1296	2101	100	74	158	143	3872
Nandi	908	1236	61	51	90	84	2430
Narok	1145	1204	37	17	87	43	2533
Nyamira	719	695	49	34	90	69	1656
Nyandarua	614	839	52	35	76	69	1685
Nyeri	344	721	46	57	83	79	1330
Samburu	268	213	13	5	35	16	550
Siaya	1169	1415	94	50	107	68	2903
Taita-Taveta	297	407	34	14	36	23	811
Tana River	327	267	9	2	35	14	654
Tharaka-Nithi	559	802	45	32	70	52	1560
Trans-Nzoia	849	1188	73	47	100	97	2354
Turkana	445	351	23	8	49	16	892
Uasin-Gishu	657	1251	39	47	90	119	2203
Vihiga	743	1021	62	45	85	59	2015
Wajir	159	49	11	0	30	8	257
West-Pokot	581	693	27	16	84	36	1437
TOTALS	35202	47139	2541	1772	4230	3292	94176

TSC Recruited 25,124 teachers in 2021 including 5,000 additional teachers in secondary schools meant to address the 100 per cent transition from primary to secondary schools. Out of this, 2,933 were male while 2067 were female.

An additional 8,124 replacement teachers were recruited in primary (3,020 were male and 3,573 were female) and 953 male and 578 female teachers in post-primary institutions.

For the internship programme, 12,000 interns were recruited with 4,852 of these being male and 5,741 being female teachers in primary and 8,526 and 6,005 female in post-primary institutions.

102,000 teachers were trained on the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in 2020/2021 with ICT being a key area in the new Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC).

For capacity building on the CBC, TSC revealed that it had trained 131,275 (79,582 male and 51,693 female) Master Trainers, Trainers of Trainers which included Curriculum Support Officers (CSOs), CBC champions and teachers.

In public primary schools, the Commission trained 44,867 teachers and 6,918 in private primary schools. A further 3,561 teachers were trained for the Special Needs Education (SNE) and 1,582 in CBC Mathematics Champions and 43,644 CBC Mathematics teachers.

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