TSC Delocalization List: The Teachers Service Commission chief executive officer Nancy Macharia has come out to defend the controversial delocalization process that the commission undertakes.
Ms. Macharia said that the TSC had now stopped transferring teachers to far flung areas. She noted that while the exercise had faced some challenges, the commission had worked to solve them.
“Delocalisation is simply a transfer; we want to ensure that teachers do not teach in their locality for their entire teaching life but are exposed to other cultures,” Dr. Macharia said.
She was speaking when she appeared before the Senate Committee on Education on Thursday. Dr. Macharia said that for primary school teachers, she said, tutors are transferred from one sub-county to another within the same county or in counties near their home counties.
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Dr. Macharia further said that secondary school teachers who will be transferred to other counties are those who have been promoted to senior positions which they applied for.
The TSC delocalization list has been the bane of bad blood between the teachers’ employer and the Kenya National Union of Teachers which is currently headed by politician Wilson Sossion.
Ms. Macharia made the remarks as the commission races to fill in over 11,000 teaching vacancies that it announced in September. Over 300,000 teachers have applied for the vacancies.