TSC Promotions 2021; Commission now Primes itself for rescheduled 1, 000 Promotions for Diploma Teachers Next Week

TSC Lines Up 1,000 Promotions for Diploma Teachers Next Week

The Teachers Service Commission, TSC in April 2021 was forced to postpone the 2021 TSC promotions Interviews for Diploma Teachers with higher qualifications  following numerous complaints that were raised by the shortlisted interviewees through the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers, Kuppet.

Kuppet was forced to write a letter addressed to the Teachers Service Commission,  during the last week of April 2021 requesting for the postponing of TSC promotions Interviews for diploma teachers who were committed at that time- marking the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education, KCSE 2020 national exams in various marking centres distributed across Nairobi.

Kuppet managed to convince TSC to put off the interviews till later to allow the teachers who were facing the dilemma of either attending the interviews or going for Knec KCSE marking.

New Interview Dates for Postponed TSC Promotions Interviews for Diploma Teachers with Higher Qualifications 2021

The latest details hitting our newsdesk this morning indicate that more than 3,800 diploma teachers in Secondary schools  should arm themselves now to battle for the 1000 TSC Promotions Vacancies advertised by their employer.

In an official Circular addressed to the regional directors, TSC Director of Staffing Rita Wahome says the Interviews will now be conducted next week.

According to the new TSC Promotions Interview Schedule, the postponed interviews for diploma teachers in Secondary schools will be conducted between May 24, 2021 and May 28, 2021

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TSC promotions 2021– The Teachers’ employer, Teachers Service Commission, TSC, has put off the scheduled Interviews for diploma teachers promotions 2021 and set new dates.

This move follows a public outcry and the outpouring of complaints from the affected teachers who would have missed out on this golden opportunity for a possible pay rise.

The afore-mentioned diploma teachers are qualified and interested in attending the upcoming TSC promotions interviews  but some of them are currently offering essential services- marking the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE 2020) examinations.

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The Commission has already compiled and dispatched lists of successful applicants who have been shortlisted to fill the 1,000 slots available for diploma teachers in 2021 to their respective counties now that all Applications are done online.

The affected teachers can therefore take a deep sigh of relief after the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet) intervened.

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Many of the affected teachers had already reported to the designated Knec marking centres in Nairobi only for them to receive invitations for the interviews, issued on a very short notice.

Following many complaints, the union conducted a survey among the examiners to establish the depth of this problem.

Indeed, many examiners were having torrid times trying to decide wether to shun the marking exercise and attend the interviews or not.

“In the circumstances, we urge the Commission to immediately call off the interviews slated for this month and conduct the same in May or on any convenient dates after the marking of the KCSE exams.” Reads a demand letter from Kuppet Secretary General Akello Misori.

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In July 2020, the Commission embarked on the final phase of promotion of teachers for the financial year 2020/2021. A calendar of activity for the interviews was prepared with the last set of interviews scheduled to take place from 26/4/2021 to 30/4/2021.

However as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic which disrupted the Education calendar in the country, the scheduled interviews have conflicted with marking of the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) national examination currently taking place.

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Consequently, the Commission has re-scheduled the interviews for advert Number 2/2021, 3/2021, 4/2021, 6/2021, and 7/2021 to a date to be communicated in due course.

TSC is seeking to promote all the diploma holders before the current Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) comes to an end in July this year.

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Kuppet is also demanding answers on behalf of some some teachers being invited for fresh interviews when they had done the same in December 2020, and are yet to receive any communication on the outcome.

The Commission has also not released promotion results for teachers who attended interviews in February this year.

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Thousands of teachers who attended the interviews are patiently waiting for the results; whose processing must have been slowed down by involvement of the TSC Senior Secretariat staff in administration of the KCPE and KCSE examinations.

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A total of 32,431 teachers were shortlisted and interviewed in February. The teachers are fighting for the 15,226 available promotion vacancies. The Commission is seeking to fill 1,341 vacancies for Deputy Principal I and another 1,096 vacancies for Deputy Principals II.

A majority of the interviewees will be battling out for the 6,680 vacancies available for teachers in grade C3 (Formerly L). Successful candidates will be promoted to grade C4 (Senior Master IV) which is the entry grade to the administrative positions in Post Primary Learning Institutions.

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TSC Salary Increment 2023/2024 for Teachers to be Implemented in August With arrears

TSC Pay Rise News 2023 show that the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has already paid the salaries of teachers for the month of July. Several banks and saccos, notably Equity, KCB, and Absa, have remitted teachers’ pay.

However, it is evident that the government has deducted money from teachers’ salaries by enacting the higher NHIF rates.

In order to increase pay equity, President William Ruto suggested amendments to the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) on June 26, 2023.

Kenyans will contribute 2.75 percent of their gross income to the national insurance, according to the Head of State’s proposal.

This is what has had an impact on teachers’ and government workers’ July salary. The majority of elementary school teachers in lower cadres saw their salaries drop by 230 sh.

Teachers who were interns were subject to the new charges. Junior secondary school teachers who previously got a monthly stipend after deductions of sh 19,124 now receive sh 18170 as a result of the revised NHIF rate.

Primary school teachers are now paid roughly Sh 13,200 instead of the previous Sh 14,000 per year.

A court ruling delaying the 2023 Finance Act’s implementation, however, barred deductions from the housing fund, whose cap was set at 1.5% of gross income.

It has since been claimed that arrears will be paid to teachers’ salaries in August, despite President William Ruto’s declaration that TSC would pay teachers’ salary with an increase.

This is the case because the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) has not completed the review process to account for the payrise.

On June 30, President Ruto announced that teachers and other state personnel would begin getting their wage raises this month.

The public involvement exercise was finished two weeks ago, and now SRC is working on the evaluation.

After the commission publishes the new salary in the gazette, the government departments in charge of paying teachers and other civil officials would then be able to implement the rise.

Sources claim that tomorrow, when many workers anticipate receiving their salaries, it is the earliest the reviews might be concluded.

Another issue for the labour is the amount they would receive after the rise.

“The increase’s implementation date is quite important. According to a source, even if they don’t get the hike this month, they will still get it after July.

One of the terms of the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers’ (Kuppet) agreement with the President was the suspension of the Finance Act 2023, the implementation of which has been put on hold by the High Court in response to a petition filed by Busia Senator Okiya Omtatah.

The court’s decision guarantees that the new 1.5% housing fee imposed by the Act won’t apply to employees. The deadline for it to go into effect was this month.

Kuppet Secretary-General Akello Misori has raised a red flag over the delay and claims that both the SRC and the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) are to blame.

During a five-hour “consultative meeting” that Kuppet and SRC purportedly had with Dr. Ruto in May at State House, the President is said to have assured authorities that teachers will receive a minimum 10% pay raise “upon the passage of the 2023-2024 Finance Bill.”

This is a concern because, he continued, we can be deceived and discover that it is not 10% or 12% as we had thought.

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Many teachers reported that their pay stubs had not yet been put on the payment site.

Despite our repeated appeals to the TSC for a review of the terms of reference of the 2021–2025 collective agreement, the SRC and TSC’s inaction has caused a delay. When the President gave his final consent to the programme, we thought that the Treasury was on board and that the SRC had given other public employees—particularly the civil servants—the opportunity to discuss their compensation with them. It was made very plain by the President that this required an increase of between 7 and 10%. Mr. Misori said there shouldn’t be any delays.

The union had originally asked for a hike of between 30% and 70% from the president, but they ultimately settled on 10%.

Mr. Misori asked the commissions to complete the salary increase procedure because the increment had already been agreed upon by the union and the president.

He denied that it had anything to do with their endorsement of the Finance Bill 2023, which was being discussed at the time in Parliament, and insisted that the agreement had never been in writing.

Mr. Misori lamented that, regrettably, and in spite of these assurances, “the TSC and SRC are still going in circles while teachers are struggling under the weight of higher taxes and high inflation that the government promised to shield them from.”

According to Dr. Ruto, the decision to evaluate salary will not benefit high-ranking government personnel such as himself, his deputy Rigathi Gachagua, MPs, Cabinet secretaries, chief secretaries, speakers of the house, or judges, among others.