TSC Compelled to Review Delocalization Policy
Teachers will work within their homesteads and close to their families without moving further away.
This is after MPs compelled the Teachers Service Commission to review the delocalisation policy.
The motion fronted by Lurambi MP Titus Khamala was passed in Parliament on November 3.
Khamala had written the motion seeking to immediately reverse the ongoing process of delocalizing teachers from their workstations.
“Review the teacher recruitment policy to devolve it to zonal level as the point of recruitment,” he said.
This means if TSC is to transfer a teacher then they should be moved to a different school within the zone they work in.
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“The delocalisation of teachers commenced in 2018 by TSC which immensely disrupted teachers’ lives, lowered teacher morale and caused untold trauma to many teachers countrywide,” Khamala said
The legislator asked TSC to review the policy to be in line with the International Labour Organization and Unesco laws.
Khamala said Unesco teacher deployment practice, treats education as a cultural process conducted within a people’s cultural context at the local level.
According to TSC, the policy was meant to provide tutors with a new working environment and address teacher shortages in certain areas.
President William Ruto promised to being to an end the ‘unfair’ delocalisation of teachers.
While launching the education charter, Ruto said the policy was being used to punish non-compliant teachers.
“We have a teacher who received his transfer letter while in hospital, another one here was moved from Nairobi to Kitale,” he said.
The delocalisation exercise has seen the transfers of thousands of long-serving principals and school heads.
Stakeholders have differed on the matter, some supporting the exercise while others opposing it.
Some of the school administrators moved, so far, were those serving in their home counties.
