TSC Transfers 3,000 Head Teachers

The Teachers Service Commission, on Tuesday, transferred 3,094 teachers who are expected to hand over reigns by December 28.

The move affected mostly head teachers of Primary and Secondary schools who had served at one location for more than nine years.

The decision was made a day after Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) wrote letters to the commission protesting the decision.

TSC chief executive officer Nancy Macharia explained that the transfers resulted from retirements of head teachers that had attained the requisite age.

As a result, deputy heads who are qualified and have exemplary performance records have been promoted to headship positions and transferred accordingly.

Inevitably, some of the serving heads have also been transferred to take the positions that fell vacant. This is necessary in order to match performance and experience to the enrollment and level of the institutions,” stated the CEO.

This comes a year after another controversial shuffle of 1,065 principals that left education stakeholders up in arms.

Most transferred principals' families claimed that they had been affected by the transfers which were inter-county.

The complaints even attracted the attention of President Uhuru Kenyatta who directed the two bodies to iron out their differences.

In the letter to TSC, KNUT Secretary General Wilson Sossion asked the commission to respect the President’s directive to stop transfers since they were affecting families.