After releasing the recent promotion merit list for teachers, Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has received a lot of criticism over lack of transparency and fairness in the promotions exercise.
The teachers’ unions, Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) and Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet) have tasked TSC to publish clear details concerning the promotion list.
Both KNUT and KUPPET have raised concerns about the lack of transparency and demand for detailed information in the list.
The union fault TSC for providing the actual names corresponding to the TSC numbers published for audit purposes.
The unions argued that TSC move to omit names may have high chances of include deceased teachers to be included in the merit list.
The two unions now are demanding for an immediate response from the commission and have called for a meeting to address this urgent issue that has really affected teachers.
According to Knut Secretary General Collins Oyuu has expressed much dissatisfaction with the promotions, follow receiving numerous complaints from teachers about the criteria used for the interviews and promotions.
Oyuu has emphasized for the commission to explain the transparency in the process and called for clarification on the criteria employed by the TSC.
Collins Oyuu has questioned the decision to publish TSC numbers without indicating the number of promotions in each grade and region, thus describing it as a questionable practice.

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He further questioned the exclusion of long-serving teachers who have remained stagnated in the same job group for years, something that contrasts their situation with new graduates who received promotions.
Teachers who got promotions are now waiting to be posted to various rules where they are expected to assume new roles.