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Seychelles expected to recruit more teachers from Zambia to address shortage

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VEEP conferring with some school teachers
VEEP conferring with some school teachers

The Seychelles Ministry of Education is expected to recruit more teachers from Zambia to compensate for the shortage of teachers in state schools, said a top official. 

The recruitment will be done through a memorandum of understanding that will be signed with the Zambian Ministry of Education.

The principal secretary for early childhood, primary and secondary, Odile De Commarmond, told the press that this move will help the ministry in addressing a shortage of teachers.

“For the time being, we have 46 vacancies available at the secondary level. However, it doesn’t mean that we are going to fill all these vacancies with teachers from Zambia only,” she said.

De Commarmond added that “this is because there are some specific subjects such as religion, French and physical education which we do not require or cannot be taught by Zambians.”

There are 35 primary and secondary state schools in Seychelles, a group of 115 islands in the western Indian Ocean. Presently, there are 1,050 teachers, including 173 foreigners, working in state schools on the three main islands of Mahe, Praslin, and La Digue. 

Early this year, the Ministry of Education took in a group of Zambian teachers to work in the educational sector, mainly at the secondary level.

“For these teachers, we are still looking at the pace of their adaptation to the system to see if there are any setbacks and how we can move forward,” said the principal secretary.

De Commarmond explained that for the Zambian teachers the first thing that the Zambian needs to adapt to “is the school curriculum as in their country they have their own examination system and they do not train students for International Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE).”
The Zambian teachers will be teaching science, maths, geography, information communication and technology (ICT), and design and technology which are subjects in Zambia’s educational system.
De Commarmond said Zambia has offered to help because it has a surplus of professional teachers.
Apart from Zambia, the Ministry of Education is also recruiting teachers from Mauritius and is exploring possibilities with Fiji, Madagascar and Philippines.

24 COMMENTS

  1. Sychelles should be ready to release all the money hidden in their Banks as Tax Havens stolen from Zambian people by politicians in 2021. That’s what they should be thinking about, not Teachers.

  2. Seychelles is recruiting Zambian teachers because their economy has progressed to a point where their citizens only think of going for far better jobs. Same thing in next door Botswana.

    • Are saying British teachers are here in Zambia because our economy is doing better. For your information even at the time our economy was among the best in the region our teachers and other professionals were in high demand by many countries.

  3. That`s good at least some people will be employed and be in a position to feed their families, we all know about black tax, we all have to help extended families.

  4. Let us not cheat ourselves here. There are no competent teachers in Zambia in the subjects mentioned and am sure once they interview the applicants the Seychelles government will change their minds. Our education system needs to be overhauled and proper teachers recruited and rewarded handsomely. And this may not happen soon. Zambia cant afford to export the teachers they don’t have because most of our teachers are semi-illiterate and lack key competencies of a professional teacher. Truth be told don’t bury your heads in the sand like an ostrich!

    • You are late tatafyala, for the past 2 years, Zambian teachers have been teaching the mentioned subjects in Seychelles!! So I really dont know your argument here. The current story is about getting more!! The project started 2 years ago and my dad is actually teaching Art and Design on one of the Islands there!!

  5. The Cuban system works like this; Any doctor sent overseas will give 75% of his income to the state. Brazil wants to reverse this and has asked any Cuban doctor working in Brazil to apply for permanent residence in that country if they don’t want to continue with CHIBALO….a system where people working abroad surrender their money to their government.

  6. Tokotoko -Art and design is just drawing cartoons right and which college here teaches how to draw cartoons? You must be a very young empty head.

  7. Iyeeeeee, not from ZambiaI The standards here have gone to the dogs….generally sub standards in this land at the moment. I know what iam talking about.

  8. All PF Cadres here the opportunity to escape poverty in Zambia. Go get a job and teach the children in Seychelles violence and how to obey politicians

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