KUPPET Issues Fresh Demands to TSC Over Promotion of Teachers.
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has come under fire from the Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) for not promoting teachers who have worked for more than ten years in the same job category.
KUPPET Secretary General Akello Misori asserted in a statement on Monday, August 11, that the service ought to follow the National Police Service’s (NPS) recent announcement of automatic promotions for police officers who have been with a job group for a considerable amount of time.
Akello argues that since these instructors are already qualified for the position, the commission need to make sure that they are promoted automatically without interviews or through posted openings.
“The National Police Service deserves praise for promoting officers who have been in the same job category for over a decade. According to the service’s protocol, police officers will be promoted without interviews or vacancy announcements,” Akello stated.
The union’s deputy secretary general, Moses Nthurima, says the stoppage of teacher advancements, which he called discriminatory, has exposed TSC’s failure to sufficiently address issues affecting educators across the country.
“When a government singles out a sector for employment and rewards them with summary promotion, it is curious, it is good that they have promoted police who have stagnated in one job group for more than 10 years, but what about teachers?” Nthurima Moses said.
Days prior, Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen declared that the NPS has reduced the age at which long-serving police officers automatically receive promotions from 53 to 50.
Murkomen stated that a police officer will be promoted automatically if he has been a corporal, sergeant, or constable for more than 15 years and is over 50.
However, the same benefit will be granted to an inspector who has been in their position for more than ten years and who is at least fifty years old.
Furthermore, Murkomen asserted that the ministry would create further plans to guarantee that police officers are given consideration for transfers in a shorter amount of time.
“Inspector General of Police, Douglas Kanja, had previously announced that the promotional age of officers who have served for long as corporals is 53 and above; however, this has changed,” Murkomen stated.
“The promotion board sat down yesterday and agreed that if a police officer is 50 years old and has served as a constable, corporal, or sergeant for more than 15 years, he will be promoted, and if you have been an inspector for 10 years, you will also be automatically promoted,” he said.
KUPPET Issues Fresh Demands to TSC Over Promotion of Teachers.
