Section of teachers want Evaleen Mitei confirmed as TSC CEO

During a press address on Monday, classroom teachers from the Nairobi Cosmopolitan Hub said Mitei has exceeded the required expectations during her one year in office.

The teachers appealed to the TSC Board and President William Ruto to fast-track Mitei's recognition as CEO.

They said that during her interim tenure, Mitei has spearheaded critical transformations across four key pillars, among them protecting TSC's autonomy, leading the promotion of over 30,000 teachers and onboarding 20,000 interns to permanent and pensionable terms, and spearheading the rollout of the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA).

"She has ensured that deployments are strictly guided by TSC regulations, shielding teachers from local political victimization," they said.

They also lauded Mitei for ensuring the execution of education reforms under the Competency-Based Education (CBE) and ensuring gender parity in the teaching workforce.

"She enforced progressive staffing policies resulting in an unprecedented 51% to 49% female-to-male ratio across the teaching service, making TSC the largest employer in the country to achieve actual gender parity," they stated.

Mitei, they added, tamed the illegal hawking of TSC employment forms through digitisation and ensured qualified young Kenyans secure jobs based entirely on merit.

Likewise, they said she identified and corrected payroll anomalies within the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Database (IPPD).

Mitei boasts of over 31 years of experience, having acquired a Master of Science in Human Resource Management from the University of Manchester (UK) and a Bachelor of Education from Moi University.

She started as a classroom teacher in 1994, moved to the Secretariat in 1999, and later became the Director of Teacher Discipline Management.