The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has promoted 25,252 teachers after waiving a key requirement that educators serve at least three years in one grade before moving up.
The commission said 5,291 teachers were promoted despite not meeting the three-year threshold.
Most of them took up principal and deputy headteacher roles, where the number of eligible candidates fell short of demand. "In the just concluded promotion exercise, the number of teachers who had met the three-year requirement in the feeder grades fell significantly short of the number of vacancies," said the commission in a statement dated May 22.
The move comes after the National Assembly allocated Sh1 billion to support promotions, which covered only 5,690 of the 25,252 vacancies.
