School principals and deputy principals will have to wait longer for the Teacher Service Commission to approve their transfers.
This is after the Kenya National Union of Teachers said the employer will have to find vacancies to approve their transfers.
Knut secretary general Collins Oyuu said consultations made with the employer bring an end to the 'unfair' delocalisation.
Oyuu said TSC received 547 applications.
“The first batch of applications was made and we know we will receive more,” he said.
“We want appointments and promotion of principals to be done within the counties they are in and not far.”
This comes days after Kuppet secretary general Akello Misori said teachers who are comfortable in their current stations are free to retain them.
Misori was speaking during a press briefing last Thursday.
“We have agreed with our employer that all teachers who were delocalised should apply for transfers,” Misori said.
The teachers have been asked to use the remaining weeks of the third term to submit their applications.
“We have three national exams in waiting so instead of interfering they can express the interest then it will be dealt with in January,” Misori said.
This is after MPs compelled TSC 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 delocalising 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.
“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.
