Government has asked Minister of General Education David Mabumba to take radicle action in tackling teacher housing crisis in the country.
Copperbelt Minister Japhen Mwakalombe says the Education minister should step action to address the housing crisis in the country especially the Copperbelt province.
“ The province had recorded robust increase in infrastructure development in the education sector but the housing units are not enough to accommodate the current population of teachers, “ he said.
ZANIS reports that Mr. Mwakolombe said in Ndola yesterday that the infrastructure expansion in the sector had registered increase in the number of teachers that had been recruited at various schools.
Mr. Mwakalombe said this when Mr. Mabumba called on him at his office yesterday.
Once accommodation challenges are addressed, said the minister, the move will be a motivation factor to teachers and enable them plan their work from the comfort of their homes.
Mr. Mwakalombe appealed to the Ministry of General Education to also address the teacher pupil ratio which he stated that it is high in the province.
He added that education is key role in the development of the province hence the need to look at the challenges facing schools.
Mr Mabumba is in the Copperbelt Province to meet teachers and check on a school infrastructure in Kalulushi and Mufulira districts
These new houses have brought in another challenge, senior teachers like headmasters and their deputies are disadvantaging junior teachers by using seniority to move into the new structures and refusing to vacate when they are transferred. The same applies to the police
Even after 55years of Zambia, same old cheap stories, lazy things