TSC gets funds for promotion  of More than 5 categories of teachers  in July.It is another good news to teachers from job group B5 to D3  that have experienced stagnation for their time to reap big is now here.

According to the Education Parliamentary Committee chairman Julius Melly ,the decision to allocate that money for promotion was to motivate teachers to render quality teaching.

While addressing the Kenya Secondary School Heads Association (KESSHA) in Mombasa yesterday, Melly  asked  the commission to ensure all teachers who have stagnated in one grade for years are promoted first.

Melly said that the ministry gave  Sh1 billion to promote teachers.

The band of teachers from grade D3 to D4  should be given special consideration in the next promotion as they have not been promoted for years.

On the other hand , Kahi Indimuli also said that  there has been delays in promotion of teachers in all grades, saying that deputy principals who have been denied promotions even after acting for one year.

Also Indimuli noted that  in most cases, school deputies had acted for over six months, however instead of being considered  for promotion, these teachers  were demoted after new principals were posted to those schools.

The promotion exercise will see  about 13,713 secondary and primary school principals,the  vice principals, senior masters, secondary teachers,the  head teachers, and assistant head teachers will also be promoted

Equally there will be promotions for 2,733 head teachers at regular primary schools

Another 1,330 teachers at secondary schools will be promoted as another  1,725 deputies principal IIs.

Lastly 602 leaders at regular schools, another 224 deputy principal IIIs at secondary schools and 208 senior master IIs will be promoted.

Parliament budget allocation gave TSC at least Sh2.2 billion for teachers to be promoted and their new pay catered for.