MARKING SCHEME FOR THE 2025 PROMOTION INTERVIEWS
TEACHERS SERVICE COMMISSION PROMOTION SCORE GUIDE
The Teachers Service Commission, TSC, has released a new marking scheme for teachers seeking promotions to the next grade. The marking scheme seen by this writer will highly favour teachers who have acted as either Deputy Principals, Principals or Deputy Head Teachers and Head Teachers with the maximum score set at 30 percent.
MARKING SCHEME FOR THE 2025 PROMOTION INTERVIEWS
ACTING e.g as Headteacher, Principal, Deputy Headteacher, Deputy Principal
5yrs + – 30mks
3-4yrs – 25mks
2-3yrs – 20mks
1year – 15mks
Below – 10mks
LENGTH OF STAY IN CURRENT GRADE
6yrs – 20mks
4-5yrs – 15mks
2-3yrs – 10mks
TPAD RATINGS
81% + – 10mks
61-80% – 8mks
Also read: 2025 TSC Promotion Interview Letters and Required Documents
AGE OF TEACHER AS PER NATIONAL ID
55 + yrs – 15mks
50-54yrs – 12mks
45-49yrs – 9mks
40-44yrs – 6mks
39+Below – 3mks
ORAL QUESTIONS.
13mks
CO-CURRICULAR FROM 2021 ONWARDS
National – 5mks
Regional – 4mks
County – 3mks
Subcounty – 2mks
KCSE/KCPE 2021, 2022 AND 2023
Maximum – 6mks
COMMUNICATION:
1mk
TOTAL = 100%
List of 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.
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.
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)
TSC LIST OF DECLARED PROMOTIONAL VACANCIES TO BE FILLED IN 2025
1. 5/2024 Chief Principal (Regular School) T- Scale 15 Grade D5 Vacancies 44
2. 6/2024 Chief Principal (TTC) T- Scale 15 Grade D5 Vacancies 3
3. 7/2024 Senior Principal (Regular School) T- Scale 14 Grade D4 Vacancies 126
4. 8/2024 Senior Principal (TTC) T- Scale 14 Grade D4 Vacancies 3
5. 9/2024 Principal (Regular School) T- Scale 13 Grade D3 Vacancies 652
6. 10/2024 Deputy Principal I (TTC) T- Scale 13 Grade D3 Vacancies 3
7. 11/2024 Deputy Principal II (Secondary School) T- Scale 12 Grade D2 Vacancies 786
8. 12/2024 Senior Lecturer I (TTC) T-Scale 12 Grade D2 13
9. 13/2024 Deputy Principal III(Regular School) T- Scale 11 Grade D1 Vacancies 1,408
10. 14/2024 Senior Lecturer II (TTC) T- Scale 11 Grade D1 Vacancies 32
11. 15/2024 Senior Master II (secondary SNE) T- Scale 11 Grade D1 Vacancies 2
12. 16/2024 Senior Master III (Regular School) T- Scale 10 Grade C5 Vacancies 1,987
13. 17/2024 Senior Lecturer III (TTC) T- Scale 10 Grade C5 Vacancies 61
14. 18/2024 Senior Master III (secondary SNE) T- Scale 10 Grade C5 Vacancies 6
15. 19/2024 Senior Master IV T- Scale 9 Grade C4 Vacancies 2,221
16. 20/2024 Senior Lecturer IV (TTC) T- Scale 9 Grade C4 Vacancies 70
17. 21/2024 Secondary Teacher I(Diploma teachers only) T- Scale 8 Grade C3 Vacancies 184
18. 22/2024 Lecturer 1 T-Scale 8 Grade C3 Vacancies 7
19. 23/2024 Senior Head teacher (Regular) T- Scale 11 Grade D1 Vacancies 254
20. 24/2024 Senior Head teacher (SNE) T- Scale 11 Grade D1 Vacancies 7
21. 25/2024 Head-Teacher (Regular School) T- Scale 10 Grade C5 Vacancies 2,130
22. 26/2024 Head Teacher (SNE Primary School) T- Scale 10 Grade C5 Vacancies 33
23. 27/2024 Deputy Head-teacher II (Regular Primary School) T- Scale 9 Grade C4 Vacancies 3,653
24. 28/2024 Deputy Head-teacher II (SNE) T- Scale 9 Grade C4 Vacancies 33
25. 29/2024 Senior Teacher I (Regular Primary School) T- Scale 8 Grade C3 Vacancies 4,703
26. 30/2024 Senior Teacher I (SNE Primary School) T- Scale 8 Grade C3 Vacancies 77
27. 31/2024 Senior Teacher II (Regular Primary School) T- Scale 7 Grade C2 Vacancies 1,364
28. 32/2024 Senior Teacher II (SNE Primary School) T- Scale 7 Grade C2 Vacancies 81
TOTAL PROMOTIONS VACANCIES 19,943
