The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has announced that they will start releasing teachers promotion letters in April 2025 to those who will successfully get selected after attending the January promotion interviews
According to TSC, it will issue promotion letters to those successful while the unsuccessful ones will be issued with regret letters. The communication will publish a list of teachers on its website for teachers who will be successfully promoted.
In 2024, TSC published a list of promoted teachers which was marred with corruption allegations. Number of teachers cited unfairness in the exercise after it emerged junior teachers with recent TSC numbers were awarded promotion positions while the aged ones were locked out.
At the moment, promotion interviews for post primary school teachers which started on 27th January is ongoing and will end on 6th February 2025.Post primary institutions include Teacher Training Colleges (TTCs) and Secondary schools.
In January 13th, TSC concluded promotion interviews for primary school teachers which started. Many teachers cited unfairness in the exercise after it emerged junior teachers with recent TSC numbers were awarded promotion positions while the aged ones were locked out.
Currently the promotion interviews for post primary school teachers which started on 27th January is ongoing and will end on 6th February 2025. Post primary institutions include Teacher Training Colleges (TTCs) and Secondary schools.
The commission already concluded promotion interviews for primary school teachers which started on 13th January. TSC had advertised 25,288 promotion slots for both primary and post primary school teachers.
TSC first advertised 5,690 promotion slots for school administrators through Advert 1 to 4 of 2024 which run from 12th to 18th November, 2024. The commission then on 17th December 2024 advertised additional 19,943 slots for teachers from job group C1 to D3 to apply online.
Of these 16,109 slots went to primary schools while a total of 9,179 positions went to post primary institutions. This years promotions just like last years registered a huge number of teachers applying for the various advertised positions.
TSC said a total of 189,000 teachers applied for promotions and were shortlisted where 96,640 were primary school teachers and 44,043 were post primary school teachers.
This years promotion interviews was different from last years as no questions were asked by the interviewing panels. The promotion interviews for primary school teachers which started on 13th January ended on 23rd January 2025.
The interview panels which consisted of Sub County Directors, Human Resource Officers and Curriculum Support Officers largely restricted on documents verification.
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