A record 189,000 teachers have applied for 25,288 slots up for grabs as TSC seeks to promote additional teachers to higher grades.
The Teachers Service Commission had advertised the slots as part of the commission's latest plan to move tutors to higher grades and address stagnation.
In a notice, TSC says the commission received many applications from teachers interested in being promoted.
The high number of applications from teachers shows the growing number of qualified teachers who are yet to be moved to better job groups.
The TSC had advertised for the vacancies, including 9,179 positions for post-primary schools and 16,109 for primary schools.
According to the TSC internal memo, some 96,640 teachers have been shortlisted for primary school positions.
They are battling for positions at the office of the sub-county directors of TSC.
The interviews which started on January 13 will come to an end on January 23.
In the case of post-primary slots, TSC shortlisted 44,043 teachers in Grades C3 to D2.
The teachers will be interviewed from January 27 to February 7, 2025.
Some 7,224 principals and teachers in Grades D3 to D5 will attend interviews at the regional headquarters during the same period.
"There are three levels of interviews: Sub-county, where 96,640 teachers were shortlisted for the primary school vacancies; County level, where 44,043 teachers in C3 to D2 grades will be interviewed; and regional level, where principals and teachers in D3 to D5 grades will be interviewed,'' reads the TSC notice.
The 25,000 slots for promotion are a far cry from the 130,000 vacancies demanded by the teachers' unions when they went on strike last year.
The unions including the Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet) had claimed that teachers had suffered career stagnation for decades.
Kuppet said the stagnation had contributed to the demoralisation of teachers thus affecting service delivery in schools.
However, TSC had insisted that the delays were a result of a lack of funds from the government.
