Treasury Allocates Sh1B to TSC for Teachers’ Promotion

The Teachers Service Commission has been given Sh1 billion by the National Treasury for promotion.

The decision to give out the promotion money, according to Julius Melly, head of the Parliamentary Committee on Education, was made to encourage teachers to provide high-quality teaching.

He gave a speech in the Sheikh Zayed Hall in Mombasa during the 46th Kenya Secondary School Heads Association Conference.

“For a school to work, it must have a motivated teacher. A stagnated teacher is a problem. A teacher who is not appreciated does not work very well,” Melly said.

“That is why as the committee of education we have allocated Sh 1 billion for teacher promotion.”

According to Melly, the funds would be repurposed to enable teachers to transfer from D3 to D4 and avoid having them remain in a single position for an extended period of time.

“The skewed promotion that we’ve seen will be dealt with in the next stage so that those members who have overstayed in D3, D2 could be moved and even the teachers be promoted,” Melly said.

“We do not want to see a teacher who has stagnated for 10, 15 years in one job group. It is demoralizing and it is wrong.”

He said the committee has discouraged the issue of acting promotions.

He termed it as wrong and demotivating.

“We need that teacher who has been taken over as a principal, give him the requisite documents and let him take up the school and he moves on,” Melly said.

“As a committee, we gave the TSC timelines. We do not want to see principals, deputies or senior teachers acting for a very long time. We are discouraging that as a member of the committee education.”

He said that most deputy principals get demoted instead of being promoted to principals.

This comes after KESSHA Chairman Kahi Indimuli issued a warning that teachers’ promotions were being postponed even after they had been working there for more than a year.

“It is demoralising and diminishing for a deputy principal to act for sometime and after a short while, they are demoted to either a class teacher or subject head,” Indimuli said.