The Teachers Service Commission, TSC, has dispatched promotion interviews invitation letters to successful applicants. Teachers who applied for the promotions can now pick their invitation letters from their Heads of Institutions or Principals. The letters can also be picked from the TSC Sub County or County offices.

The invitation letters contain such details as the interview date, place and time.

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Required Documents 

The following documents will be required during the interviews:

• Original National Identity Card.
• Original Academic Certificates: KCSE, Degree, Diploma or Masters Certificates.
• Letter of appointment to the current grade/ payslip/ last promotional leteer. Any one of these will be required.
• Letter of deployment/ assigning you responsibility of performing duties of Head of Institution (HOI), Deputy Head of Institution (DHOI) or had earlier acted as such through deployment by the Commission or Board of Manegement where applicable.
• Performance Appraisal reports (TPAD) for 2021, 2022 and 2023.
• Any other relevant testimonials like Co-curricular Activities Certificates.

“Please report to the venue of the interview at least one hour before the time indicated in your letter”. The Commission adds.

MARKING SCHEME FOR THE 2025 PROMOTION INTERVIEWS

A brief check into the promotion scoresheet used by the Commission in this years interviews.

Academic Qualification

Masters -5 Marks
Degree – 3 Marks
Diploma – 1 Mark

Knec Examiner

4 Marks

Length of Stay in Current Grade

7 years and above – 50Marks
6 years – 40 Marks
5 years – 30 Marks
4 years – 20 Marks
3 years – 10 Marks

TPAD Rating

81+ 10 Marks
61- 80 – 8 Marks
41-60 – 6 Marks
21 – 40 – 4 Marks
1- 20 – 2 Marks

Age

55+ years 30 Marks
50-54 – 26 Marks
45-49 – 22 Marks
40-44 – 18 Marks
30-39 – 14 Marks

Presentation
1 – Mark

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However unlike in previous interviews where shortlisted applicants would face many questions from the interview panel, in this one there are no questions asked.

Interviewees are only asked to present their documents to the panel for verification. The panel also confirms the age and years of service in the current grade from the teacher,

Its emerging that the Commission will promote teachers based on their age and the period they have served in the current grade.

In this exercise the Commission seeks to fill 19,943 promotion vacancies it recently declared.

Those successful will be posted to schools where there are vacancies. TSC is facing mass retirements of teachers end of June and August this year.

The Commission promotions is also seeking to address the numerous vacancies left by HOI’s and DHOI’s who retired and others are set to exit this year.

This year TSC advertised 19,943 promotion vacancies for teachers from job group C1 to job group D4 after being allocated sh 1 billion by Treasury.

The Commission had on 17th December declared the slots through an advert and asked teachers to apply online.

TSC invited teachers from primary to post primary institutions to apply online for the promotion vacancies.

TSC gave qualified teachers till the midnight of 30^th December, 2024 to place an application.

The Commission asked teachers who had earlier applied for promotion in the Advert 1 to 4 of 2024 which run from 12^th to 18^th November, 2024 to apply.

After shortlisting teachers are required to carry their national Identity Card (ID), academic certificates and Teacher Performance Appraisal and Development (TPAD) ratings for the last three years.

Those in acting capacity will be required to produce letters for the acting positions.

Appointment letters and letters of appointment to the current grades will also be required.

Those with disabilities will have to produce their disability membership card as evidence of registration.

However TSC says successful candidates must produce the five Chapter 6 documents before they are awarded their positions and posted to schools where vacancies are available.

Chapter 6 of the constitution requires that persons working for the public sector, otherwise known as state officials, exhibit leadership and integrity.

As a result, employers need clearance certificates to confirm that the employee exhibits personal integrity, competence and suitability.

Below are the five documents that are mandatory inline with Chapter six of the Kenyan Constitution on ‘Leadership and Integrity’.

• Valid Certificate of Good Conduct from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI)
• Clearance Certificate from the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB)
• Tax Compliance Certificate from Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA)
• Clearance from Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC)
• A Clearance Certificate from an approved Credit Reference Bureau (CRB)

TSC scoresheet shows preference will be given to teachers based on their period of service, TPAD and age.

TSC data shows at least 3,300 school heads and deputies are currently serving in acting capacities.

The commission plans to confirm the teachers and place them to their new roles starting January.

At least 3,359 public schools are lacking a head of institution. Data from TSC show that 1,918 primary schools lack a headteacher while 1,441 secondary schools lack a principal.

TSC blames shortage of teachers qualified to head schools as well as many new schools registered that creates more complication.

LIST OF DOCUMENTS TEACHERS TO PRESENT DURING PROMOTION INTERVIEWS

Kindly note that the number of documents to present depends on nature of the promotion vacancy. Classroom teacher will have less documents compared to those seeking higher administrative positions.

1) Original Identity Card (ID)

2) Original academic certificates (KCSE, PTE, Diploma and Degree certificates)

3) Letter of appointment to current grade

4) Latest payslip

5) Last promotional letter

6) Letter assigning responsibility of HOI/DHOI

7) Performance appraisal reports (TPAD) for 2021, 2022, 2023

8) Any other testimonials

LIST OF DOCUMENTS TEACHER TO PRESENT AFTER PROMOTION INTERVIEWS

1) Valid Certificate of Good Conduct from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI)

2) Clearance Certificate from the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB)

3) Tax Compliance Certificate from Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA)

4) Clearance from Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC)

5) A Clearance Certificate from an approved Credit Reference Bureau (CRB)

2025 TSC Promotion Interview Letters and Required Documents