This archive report was first published on 16 June 2020.
On June 3, 2020, Teachers Service Commission (TSC) CEO Nancy Macharia directed country directors to provide accurate information by June 30, 2020, after it emerged that they had provided wrong information ahead of the implementation of the Sh54 billion CBA for school administrators in July 2017.
Close to 100,000 principals, their deputies, headteachers, and senior teachers will enjoy the new pay rise starting July, following the implementation of the final phase of the 2017-2021 CBA.
According to a circular by Ms. Macharia, the validation exercise was meant to ensure that only teachers serving as instructional administrators were converted as such on the effective date of the CBA and thereafter substantially as per the job evaluation report and policy on appointment and deployment of institutional administrators.
However, it has been established that some country directors provided inaccurate and misleading data leading to erroneous conversion, resulting in the database for institutional administrators at the head office being found to be inaccurate and unreliable.
As a result, TSC is expected to promote a total of 100,000 teachers in Grade B5 (previously P1) who will automatically be moved to Grade C1 starting July, with Sh7 billion having been set aside for the exercise.
Grade C1 consists of secondary teacher III, secondary teacher III/lecturer III, and primary teacher I, with a total of 29,782 teachers falling in C1 (primary teacher I and secondary teachers II) and 19,439 falling in C2 (secondary teacher II and secondary teacher UT and primary special need education teacher).
TSC, which has 320,000 teachers, was on Thursday allocated Sh266 billion for its activities, with Sh257.97 billion to be utilised in teacher resource management.
