In recent days, the transfer of a principal from one school to another has been the talk of the teaching profession. The majority of principals were caught off guard when they received transfer letters instructing them to leave their current schools and report to their new stations.
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION State Department of Early Learning and Basic Education issued a circular to All Sub-County Director of Education Migori County (Nyatike West,Kuria East,Ntimaru Nyatike North, Nyatike South, Mabera,Rongo, Suna West) to effect transfer of principals to their new stations.
The circular detailed that the Teachers Service Commission has effected transfers in the following schools.
You are therefore requested to liaise with your TSC Sub-county Director around the County schools Auditor to preside over the handing/ taking over exercise in the affected schools.
The list of the items that the school administrator hands over:
- The School’s bank certificates.
- Bank statements, financial position of the school:
- Latest Tuition account statement
- Latest Operation Account statement
- Latest school funds account statement
- Trial balances
- List of Creditors
- List of debtors
- Fees arrears
- School’s land ownership documents/ Title deed.
- Cash books for: Tuition, Operation and school fund accounts
- Ledgers
- Journals
- Rent register
- Counterfoil Receipt Book Register
- Updated Fees Register
- Commitment Register
- Cheque books for all the school’s bank accounts
- Payment voucher files for all the school’s bank accounts
- Local purchase order book (LPO)
- Receipt book
- Cash boxes with their keys
- Trial balances for all the accounts
- Available cash
- Assets like: plants, equipment, motor vehicles, Electricity Generators, water plants, projectors, Radios, TVs, Tape Recorders, Computers…..
- Textbooks
- School records
- Performance management resources:
- Duly filled TPAD files
- TPAD manual
- Schemes of work
- Records of work
- Lesson plan observation forms and schedules
- Updated class attendance register
- Class registers
- Code of conduct and Ethics for teachers
- Copies of the TSC Act
- School time table
- List of all teachers
- Discipline records
- School’s performance records
- Teachers’ mark books
- School’s mark books
