Performance contracts good for teachers in Kenya

Starting this week, the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) announced it would begin to appraise almost 300,000 teachers in public schools; a move that will help the employer assign, train, promote and deploy teachers to various administrative positions.

This exercise is likely to be rocked by controversy as the teachers’ trade unions; Kenya National Teachers Union (Knut) and Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet), have already been outraged by the move and have asked their members not to sign the performance contracts.