Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba has responded to grievances from the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) and Kenya Union of Teachers (KNUT) members over irregular promotions.
Ogamba was Speaking on Sunday during the 60th anniversary of Kereri High School in Kisii where he maintained that clear parameters were being met regarding promotions.
He outlined that TSC added was an independent commission and currently they are in the process of promoting new teachers as interviews were already complete for the same.
“Promotions come depending on available spaces and depending on how you perform, then they will be done. It is being done by TSC and as you are aware TSC is an independent body,” Ogamba clarified.
“We have just completed the interviews and they are now undertaking the exercise of analysing to see who is going to be promoted,” he added.
On January 30, KUPPET officials raised alarm over the criteria being used to allocate the promotion slots terming it unfair and discriminatory.
In the press briefing, the officials claimed that the promotion of teachers and distribution of resources across the schools was not being done equally across all the counties.
KUPPET’s Secretary General Moses Nthurima stated, “We want to see the commission allocate proportionately the slots of promotion which means the counties that have gotten the highest number of teachers must get the highest number of slots so that we act fairly in terms of spreading.”
“For that, we are demanding that the Teachers Service Commission use pro-rata to ensure that teachers are treated equally.”
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