According to the teachers' employers, they want to improve the quality of education in most schools. [Photo/TSC]

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The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has once again defended the recent massive transfer of teachers after it asked the court to throw out a case challenging programme.

According to the teachers’ employer, they have the mandate to transfer teachers for the good course of bettering education.

In a reply before the High Court, TSC said the aim was to improve education standards in all schools, and they targeted principals who had been in the same institution for more than nine years.

The case was filed by Kenya National Union of Teachers official John Wesonga, whom TSC claim cannot represent the affected teachers.

"The affidavit in support of the application has been sworn by Wesonga and the Knut Mumias branch executive secretary, representing principals yet the principals are in management and thus not unionised,” argued TSC lawyer Immanuel Mbita.

KNUT says the decision to transfer teachers was not agreed upon by all involved stakeholders, and that it was not done in good faith.

According to the KNUT Secretary General Wilson Sossion, who spoke in Mombasa during a delegate’s forum, the move by TSC would ruin families.

“Any policy that TSC proposes should be agreed upon by the unions, which are the teacher’s representatives,” said Mr Sossion.