TSC Transfer Requests with Most Preferred Counties
TSC Transfer Requests with Most Preferred Counties. The Teachers Service Commission will handle the 21,544 delocalized teachers’ transfer petitions.
The Commission will grant regional and interregional transfer petitions in April and send letters in May in order to prevent disruptions to learning.
This week, it was discovered that Nairobi City County is the area where teachers most frequently choose to transfer to.
36,277 teachers requested transfers between November 1st of last year and January 31st of this year, according to a document TSC sent to the Senate Committee on Education.
14,733 teachers were matched and authorized, while 21,544 are still pending, according to TSC.
Nancy Macharia, the chief executive officer of TSC, claims that the requirement for equal distribution and efficient use of teachers is what motivates the movement of teachers from one institution to another.
Transfers are also dependent on the station’s need for replacement, personnel needs at the time, and medical justifications that have been verified by a licensed medical professional.
Not all teachers requested to be transferred to their home counties, according to the document that Cavin Anyuor, the director of legal, labor, and industrial relations, signed on Macharia’s behalf.
“Some transfer requests are for moves to counties that are not the applicants’ homes. The commission cannot order a teacher to submit an application to be transferred to a specific county because it is an employer.
Similar to the above, the commission cannot reject a transfer request only because a teacher has not requested to be transferred to his or her home county, according to the text.
The teachers’ union also issued a warning against understanding the delocalization policy’s reversal to mean that educators must now teach in both their home counties and their villages.
TSC asserts that regions that have not generated enough teachers will experience understaffing if the commission transfers every teacher to their home counties.
According to TSC, locations that have an abundance of teachers will be overstaffed, wasting resources, with desert and semi-arid regions and hard-to-staff areas suffering the most.
The TSC further decided that the commission must confirm that there is a vacancy at the sought station and that there is a suitable alternative at the station where the teacher is moving before approving a transfer request.
In reaction to the government’s choice to allocate teachers to their home counties, TSC has implemented a delocalization strategy.
The data provided by the commission to the Senate also showed that most teachers selected to work in Nairobi City County.
TSC Transfer Requests with Most Preferred Counties
While 76 teachers asked to be transferred outside of Nairobi, 1,885 teachers requested to be transferred to the nation’s capital.
By the end of January, TSC had granted about 41 requests out of 1,162 for primary schools and four out of 723 for high institutions. One secondary school teacher left the capital, compared to 45 elementary school teachers.
With 1,336 teachers, Bungoma county received the most transfer requests from elementary school teachers who wanted to relocate.
There were 1,074 teachers who requested to be transferred outside of Bungoma County.
Secondary school teachers also prefer Mombasa County, with 340 of them applying to relocate to the Coastal City compared to 55 who requested to leave.
After receiving 237 transfer requests for teachers in secondary schools as opposed to 94 requests to be transferred outside of the county, Kajiado County also became one of the most popular counties.
In the county, 486 primary school teachers applied for employment, compared to 434 who requested to be transferred elsewhere.