The demands from teacher unions to the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) regarding publishing of full promotion results list on its website containing TSC numbers and names of teachers it claimed to have promoted is still in vain.
National Union of primary teachers (Knut) and Post Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet) have always been leading teachers in asking the commission to make public names of successfully promoted candidates.
The primary school teachers union,Knut, attempted to issue a formal request Seeking TSC to forward to it guidelines it used to administer interviews to teachers in December 2023 and January 2024 made public,it is yet waiting.
According to KNUT, without having the the real names of successful candidates published against their TSC numbers,there could be chances that even dead teachers TSC numbers could make it to the merit list.
Several teachers who the merit list appeared to as a nightmare have also cried over asking why the employer doesn’t want or sounding unwilling to publish the names of successful teachers.
Claims also indicate that the released promotion results lists have also shown very old TSC numbers and also some extremely recent teachers registration numbers, something that leads to serious suspicion.
Numerous evidence of teachers who were left behind but appear to be more qualified than those in the list has also been a story of the day.
TSC has categorically maintained that only those in the list will be issued with promotion letters once published.
Sources indicate that already some of counties which were issued with the softcopy of the letters have started to print and issue to the respective teachers.
A total of 36,505 teachers who were successfully after interviews done in December and January will be picking their promotion letters.
Unfortunately, teachers who joined the profession earlier have indicated that students they taught in highschool who became teachers got promotions leaving them .
It is very unfortunate such a commission not to exercise transparency at such a time…the influence from the political ground has taken its tall order…truly disturbing
TSC should be required not to promote newly recruited teachers and ironically send promotion letters to retired ones.