Education CS Responds To KUPPET, KNUT Demands On 100,000 Teachers’ Promotion
Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba has addressed complaints from the Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) and Kenya Union of Teachers (KNUT) members about irregular promotions.
Ogamba avoided digging into the politics behind the Teachers Service Commission’s (TSC) apparent anomalies in practice.
He was addressing on Sunday at the 60th anniversary of Kereri High School in Kisii, where he insisted that defined boundaries for promotions were being followed.
He said that the commission was autonomous and was now in the process of promoting new professors, with interviews already completed.
“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.”
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The issue of irregular promotions first arose on January 30, when KUPPET officials expressed concern about the criteria used to assign promotion spots, calling them unfair and discriminatory.
During the press briefing, officials alleged that teacher advancement and resource distribution were not done fairly across all counties.
“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,” KUPPET’s Secretary General Moses Nthurima stated.
“For that, we are demanding that the Teachers Service Commission use pro-rata to ensure that teachers are treated equally.”
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On Sunday, February 6, KNUT’s First National Vice Chairperson Malel Lang’at weighed in, calling the promotion of 25,288 teachers insufficient to solve career stagnation and professional progress across the country.
Lang’at blamed TSC’s mandate to staff schools in underserved areas, which he claimed was a key source of disparity in the exercise.
“We have many teachers who have qualified for promotion but the Teachers Service Commission is still sitting on the same,” Lang’at stated.
“Even the recent promotions where they claimed to have promoted the same.”
Education CS Responds To KUPPET, KNUT Demands On 100,000 Teachers’ Promotion
