Teachers Service Commission postpones interviews for 20,000 teachers

Teachers Service Commission Chair Lydia Nzomo (left) and CEO Nancy Macharia. (Photo: Willis Awandu/Standard)

The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has postponed interviews for 20,000 teachers to a later date. A statement to newsrooms cited ‘logistical and technical hitches.’

“The TSC has put on hold interviews for 20,057 teachers which were set to be conducted from Monday February 20, 2017 due to logistical and technical hitches,” reads a statement signed by Kihumba Kimotho, TSC head of communications.

The interviews were for job group K, M and N and were to run between February 20 and 25. Shortlisted applicants were invited for interviews by their respective TSC county directors to be conducted in Kisii, Kisumu, Kakamega, Eldoret, Nakuru, Embu, Machakos, Nyeri, Nairobi and Mombasa.

“All applicants for the position will be informed on next course of action as soon as this is sorted out,” said Kamotho.

TSC also said some 500 head teachers and their deputies would be promoted to job group ‘K’. The short-listed candidates included primary school head teachers and deputies serving in job group G and H who have acquired a Bachelor of Education degree.

Also invited were teachers, deputies and head teachers in job group L, who will be interviewed for posts in job group L, who will be interviewed for posts in job group M.

“Other teachers, head teachers, principals and lecturers serving in job group M will be interviewed for positions in job group N,” TSC said in an earlier statement.

The communication by the TSC revealed that only 10,000 successful candidates would have been moved up after the interviews.

Those targeted for promotion were 2,723 principals; head teachers and their deputies who will be promoted to job group ‘M’.

And the 3,980 we to be promoted to job group ‘M’ were assistant teachers, lecturers, curriculum support officers and education assessment resource centre officers.