14,613 teachers will be reassigned to new jobs as tutors return to schools closer to home.
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has arranged for the reassignment of 14,613 teachers ahead of the resumption of classes on January 23, 2023.
The affected teachers will begin the new school year at new schools after the commission approves their requests for regional and interregional transfers.
This is consistent with the repeal of the relocation policy, which requires teachers to return to jobs closer to home.
This policy had resulted in faculty being transferred away from their home and was strongly opposed by faculty who felt that no incentives were provided.
Following the reversal of the policy, the TSC is implementing mass transfers of teachers in both elementary and secondary schools.
In elementary schools, 10,934 teachers, 1,948 principals, and 189 substitutes were transferred.
In secondary schools, transfers were approved for 1,316 teachers and 226 principals.
Some of the factors considered in the transfers include gender parity, age, and health impairments.
CS Ezekiel Machogu introduces nationalization.
Education Minister Ezekiel Machogu criticized the 2022 relocation, calling it unfair because it does not take into account the welfare of teachers.
He added that he will replace the abolished program with nationalization.
This will be my first task to implement nationalization. The relocation did not take into account the situation of teachers.
“Under the new plan, there will be incentives for teachers worthy of staying in a particular place to stay there. We will not proceed in the same way as we did with the relocation,” he said.
TSC’s relocation policy has been a source of contention between the teachers’ employer and teachers’ unions.
