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Education Ministry in Gwembe receives teachers’ applications

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The Ministry of Education in Gwembe has started receiving applications from trained teachers from all parts of the country.
  
District Education Board Secretary (DEBS) Joyce Musambila, confirmed the
development in an interview with ZANIS this morning.
  
  Ms. Musambila said the response from the public has been overwhelming, but was
however unable to state the number of teachers who would be recruited in Gwembe.
       
She however indicated that the selections would only be made after the Ministry
Head quarters, gives a green light, adding that a meeting would be convened soon
to determine the number of teachers to be recruited for each district.
  
“The response has been overwhelming, right now we are only receiving applications
as directed by the Ministry, we will continue receiving applications up to the end
of the week, before any selections for recruitment could be made”, she said.

Asked on how many vacancies were available in the district, that would only be
known after compiling  information on available vacancies.
   
Ms. Musambila however said that most of the newly recruited teachers would be sent
to schools in the rural parts of the district.
   
Meanwhile, a source from the Ministry indicated that close to three hundred
teachers would be recruited for Gwembe alone.
  

Last week, Cabinet Office gave the Ministry of Education a go-ahead to recruit over six thousand teachers countrywide to fill vacant positions, following the deaths and retirements of teachers.

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