Teachers Reject TSC Teaching Vacancies
The union said the vacancies are limited and have not provided promotion opportunities for all the categories of the teaching staff as was expected.
KUPPET officials led by Secretary General, Akelo Misori, said that there had been worrying stagnation in some job groups by their members in the region for about 10 years and that TSC’s currently advertised vacancies have not done anything to address the concern.
“There’s a lot of disappointment in the advert for the job groups C3 and C4 since they’ve suffered a serious historical injustice in terms of promotion,” —- echoed Misori.
The C3 is a promotional grade for teachers in secondary school and C4 is a promotional grade for institutional administrators in secondary schools.
He explained that they expected over 45000 vacancies to be announced to cure the over 40000 stagnancies in the named job groups.
On Friday, December 9, TSC posted 35,550 teaching vacancies for both primary and junior secondary schools in what was recorded as a fulfilment of pledge by President William Ruto.
The teachers’ unions officials demanded that TSC explains why it made the vacancies’ announcement in such a manner and consider readvertising the vacancies with C3 and C4 job groups included.
The statement was backed by other leaders including the union’s Executive Secretary of Homa Bay, Steven Yogo, who noted that there had been discrimination in the announcement of such vacancies and when done only a few are targeted.
“Diploma teachers are getting demotivated because very few slots have been given. If the government of Kenya really values teachers as it purports then parliament should allocate money to ensure teachers that have been stagnant in these job groups are promoted and moticated for once,” said Yogo.
He urged TSC to take any negotiation with the union seriously, saying that KUPPET was ready to work with the government on condition that their members’ welfare was catered for as agreed.
According to the TSC notice, there were 9000 vacancies for permanent and pensionable terms for secondary schools and 1,000 positions for primary school teachers.
This were alongside 21,550 intern teachers to teach junior secondary schools, and 4,000 interns to teach primary schools.
In a 23-page circular to TSC regional, county and sub-county directors of education and secretaries of Boards of Management, TSC boss Nancy Macharia prevailed on selection panels to demonstrate high levels of transparency and accountability during the hiring process.
