Government says the introduction of teaching licenses is aimed at bringing sanity in the education sector.
Education Minister John Phiri says all teachers in both public and private schools will be expected to be registered and obtain licenses from the teaching council prior to teaching.
Dr. Phiri said the programme will also bring about the regulation of teacher’s conduct in line with the teaching service commission.
And the Zambia Union of Teachers (ZNUT) has welcomed the move by the Ministry of Education to introduce teaching licenses for teachers .
ZNUT General Secretary Newman Bubala says the introduction of Teaching Licenses will bring professionalism amongst teachers as they will be forced to abide by the teaching ethics.
Government recently established the teaching licence exercise where all teachers in the country in private and public learning institutions will be required to go through scrutiny to improve standards of education in the country.
Almost one tenth of teachers have forged certificates. There will be need to scrutinise all certificates of entry to colleges and or universities. Some of those practising are fake hence declining education standarfs.
has this brought sanity in the health sector?
I too wonder!! People will just bribe their way to obtaining the licenses!!
Credibility! I would like to suggest that all teachers go through some kind of a monitored teaching programme aiming at equipping them with the modern teaching standards and methodology. Teachers still send students to copy notes on the board for the whole lesson. No learning is taking place. Most of the times teachers do not even write lesson objectives on the board. Their lessons are not evaluated and they do not evaluate students learning.
This is just a fund raising venture for the government. Instead of introducing windfall tax, our government is busy squeezing poor Zambians of their hard earned money. The other day this same government announced a new directive aimed at ripping off 60% from revenue raised by government colleges and universities from parallel and distance education. PLEASE BRING BACK OUR GIRLS… COME AND GET THESE GOVERNMENT LEADERS.
Your type of thinking is what retards our country’s development. This is a very good step towards implementing Quality Assurance in our Education sector. You just can not have every Jim and Jack from the street becoming a Teacher. In fact we need to extend Quality Assurance measures to our Universities a good number of the Lecturers at institutions such as UNZA can not Lecture. They may be intelligent but can’t deliver in the Lecture theatre. With regards to sharing revenue raised on these parallel courses. Do you know that the salaries these chaps get from these programs are not taxed? Worse still they are used more like slush funds by the heads of these institutions. Perhaps they should agree that all funds raised should go through proper institutional systems subject to taxes
This is long overdue. Let the licences be like those for lawyers whereby those who defile and impregnant pupils(perveted teachers) can be deregistered, fired and imprisoned in the case of defilement.
brilliant step but has full sensitisation been done? it will be another allowance making venture like the so many educational indabas held without fruits, rushed new curriculum. hope this will succeed!!!
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