List of schools affected as TSC transfers 557 school heads

The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has transferred 557 school principals and deputies to new destinations effective January 1, 2018.

TSC Chief Executive Officer Nancy Macharia said the transfers have been effected in a new delocalisation programme meant to promote national integration.

Those affected include 31 national schools whose teachers have been moved to schools of equal stature located in different counties from stations they have been serving.

Those moved have been asked to hand over by December 28, 2017.

Some of the top schools affected in the transfers include Alliance Girls, Limuru Girls, Kakamega High, Chavakali, Sironga Girls, Cardinal Otunga Boys, Nyambaria, Machakos Boys,  Kangaru, among others.

At the extra-county boy schools, 78 teachers have been moved while the same number has been shifted in the girls’ schools of the same category (extra-county).

Eight principals have been posted to national schools that were operating without substantive national schools.

At the counties, 134 vacant positions at the county schools have also been filled in the transfer exercise while 19 heads have been moved at the technical institutions.

The transfers are also meant to ensure that fresh ideas are infused into institutions after long-stay of some head teachers in some schools.

The TSC boss said the transfers will be implemented gradually until all the objectives of the reform measures aimed at improving learning outcomes in schools are fully realised.

On Wednesday, during the release of the KCSE examinations for 2017, Dr Machaira said the transfers were in line with the provisions of the Code of Regulations for Teachers and Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBAs) signed between TSC and teachers’ unions.

She cited Regulation 70(8) of the Code of Regulation for Teachers which states that “In undertaking deployment, the Commission shall endeavor to delocalize the administration of public institutions.”

“The Code of Regulations and Code of Conduct and Ethics for Teachers shall form an integral part of this Agreement (CBA,)” adds Clause 4 of the CBAs.