Several teachers who have acquired higher qualifications while in the profession could be promoted and added salaries following National Assembly recommendations after a successful petition by a splinter union.

Martha Omollo, Kenya National Teachers Pressure Group (KNTPG) spokesperson petitioned Parliament to push the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to promote teachers with diplomas, bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees acquired during the service.

Subsequently, the 12th Parliament on its final sitting recommended that TSC should recognize and acknowledge higher qualifications acquired by teachers while in service.

“The TSC should within six months of adoption of this report open negotiations with teachers’ unions on the Career Progression Guidelines (CPGs) and uphold the rights of teachers who have acquired relevant qualifications at the time of their in-service.

“Further TSC shall give guidelines on relevant courses to be undertaken by teachers,” reads the report.

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According to the legislators, the promotions would be “in accordance with UNESCO/ILO recommendations of 1966 that acknowledge the intellectual rights of teachers who undertake and conclude relevant in-service courses.”

The teacher’s employer stopped the automatic promotions which were based on the Schemes of Service in 2014, and replaced it with the Career Progression Guidelines (CPGs) in 2016.

The members of parliament have also instructed the teachers’ employer to submit budgetary requirements for promotion of all eligible teachers in the 2023/2024 financial budget estimates for consideration by the National Assembly.

This new development will be a very big win for big win for Omollo. In 2021, Omollo accused TSC of victimisation after being transferred from Nairobi to Trans Nzoia County.

The petition was presented before the House on February 18, 2022 by Nominated MP Wilson Sossion on behalf of Ms Omollo. Mr Sossion quit as Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) secretary-general after having a fractious relationship with the TSC.

“These recommendations are now compulsive to TSC. This should have been petitioned a long time ago,” Mr Sossion revealed.

The unions supported the promotion of teachers who acquired higher qualifications while the commission defended the Code of Regulation for Teachers and the CPGs, saying the two instruments provide the minimum qualification required for each job grade and the conditions to be met before a teacher is promoted.

“TSC should promote teachers who graduated before 2014. They used their resources to study but they have now stagnated in the same job group. We speak for teachers because the unions no longer speak for us,” said Omollo.

Previously, primary school teachers who attained a diploma in education or a degree were automatically promoted to Job Group K and L respectively.

Statistics from the basic education department have revealed that women teachers are more qualified compared to their male counterparts.

As per the basic education statistical booklet 2019,which was released this week, the number of female teachers with PHD degree in both public primary and secondary schools were found to be higher than that of men. Out of the five teachers with PhD in public primary schools, four were female while only one was male. In public secondary schools, three teachers with PHD were female while only one was male.

According to the booklet, public primary schools had more teachers with PhD compared to public secondary schools.

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In masters and bachelor’s degree qualifications, the same trend was revealed. 289 and 9315 female teachers in public primary schools have bachelor’s degree and master’s degree qualifications respectively against 187 and 8576 male teachers with bachelor’s degree and master’s degree respectively.

At secondary level, more male teachers have masters, post graduate diploma in education and bachelor’s degree compared to their female counter parts. Out of the 1916 teachers in secondary schools with master’s degree, only 893 were female while the rest were male. Among the 15 teachers with post graduate diploma in education in 2019, nine were male while six were female. For bachelor’s degree in education, 59074 teachers out of 99625 were male while the rest were female.

In primary schools, a total of 24606 teachers had diploma qualifications, out of which 13043 were female while 11561 were male. 175712 teachers had P1 qualifications, which have since been faced by the government, out of which 91419 were female while the rest male.

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In secondary schools, 3614 teachers had diploma qualifications, out of which 1951 were female while the rest male. Further, the report indicates that in 2019, there were 52780 teachers in public preprimary schools, 218,760 teachers in public primary schools and 105, 234 teachers in public secondary schools.

With 100% transition introduced in 2018, there exists a teacher shortage of more than 30,000 teachers, meaning more teachers will be hired in the next financial year to cater for the CBA implementation.