14,742 teachers who had been locked in the same job category now have another chance to advance.
Following a cancellation last week, the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has published a new request for applications.
Teachers’ unions and other educators defended the prior advertisement, stating that it was discriminatory and did not hire teachers who had been on the job for a long period of time have remained in this category.
Misori stated that the bulk of those teachers will be replacing colleagues who are leaving the service but will not necessarily be promoted.
“The majority of the advertised positions appear to be simply replacements for existing services, and thus there are no new promotions,” he said.
Overall, Dr Macharia said some 1,021 teachers will be sent to 18 ASAL counties while other parts of the country will share 13,717 teachers which will include principals, deputy principals, senior masters, head teachers in primary and secondary schools.
Four Teachers Training Colleges will also see new chief principals taking reign under Job Group 5.
Another 73 teachers are set to be promoted to chief principal status in both regular schools and in Special Needs Education (SNE) with another 603 set for principals in regular schools.
Eight places are reserved for Special Needs Education while 17 deputy principals I are also set to climb the ladder.
Those in Job Group D2 that have deputy principals II are slotted 725 places while those Deputies in cluster III for regular schools have 224 slots.
SNE will secure 15 places and 208 senior teachers in cluster II placed in the same D1 group. Senior teachers 1 in C3 got the highest number with 1,330 teachers getting promoted.
Primary schools head teachers will see 2,733 of them moved to regular school and placed under Job Group C5 compared.
Another 32 teachers in SNE will be placed for promotion with 7,720 Deputies in regular schools under C4 and 22 from the SNE replacing them.
Dr Macharia said teachers seeking promotion to the rank of Chief Principal in Teacher Training Colleges must have served as Senior Principal at T- Scale 14.
She said those in high schools must have served as Senior Principals but their Principals counterparts are required to produce proof of serving as Deputy Principal II/Senior Master I.
The Deputy Principal must possess experience as Deputy Principal II or Senior Master I T-Scale 12 while Deputy Principal II must have served as Deputy Principal III or Senior Master II. Deputy Principal III are required to have served as Senior Master III while those in Special Schools should have at least a Diploma in Special Needs Education.
