The Teachers Service Commission TSC Boss Dr.Nancy Macharia has announced that thousands of teachers who attended interviews for promotion waiting for their letters will know their fate anytime from this week.
Thousands of teachers attended interviews in last year December,2023.
Many teachers who have stagnated in the same job groups for several years, were among those interviewed for over 36,000 vacancies both in primary,in secondary schools and other teacher training colleges.
TSC boss Dr.Macharia has announced that the promotion letters for there teachers are expected to be sent to the beginning this week as those who will earn promotion will get improved salaries.
TSC had invited applications for promotion in August last year , 2023 as interviews were conducted at the county level in December 2023 as others spilled over to January 2024.
TSC declared several positions for grabs among them were ;
- chief principal
- regular secondary school (34)
- senior principal, regular secondary school (108)
- principal, regular secondary school (541)
- deputy principal II, regular secondary school (547)
- senior lecturer I (72).
Others positions that were declared vacant include;
- deputy principal III under regular secondary school (1,057)
- senior master III under regular secondary school (1,142)
- senior lecturer IV, TTC (216)
- senior master IV under regular secondary school (12,716)
- secondary teacher I under regular school (1,928)
- head teacher under regular primary school (1,049)
- head teacher SNE primary school (30).
TSC declared other several positions that were contained in the advertisement notice.
Macharia has further released More good news for teachers is that the commission will advertise another additional 6,000 positions following an allocation of Sh1 billion for promotion of teachers.

A teacher in Class with learners ; Image|File
The TSC boss has further confirmed that 46,000 teachers currently on contract will get converted to permanent and pensionable status upon completion of two years.
Equally, she has added that another 20,000 more teachers will be recruited on contract before end of this year to help address the current teacher shortage in Junior secondary schools .