Government says it is ready to send 500 teachers of English to Madagascar once formal procedure is concluded.
Minister of General Education, David Mabumba says the ministry is putting everything in place to make the deployment of the teachers possible, further disclosing that there are over 40, 000 teachers who are trained but not employed.
Speaking in an interview with ZANIS in Lusaka today, the Minister said government will engage the Madagascar authorities on the matter before deploying the teachers.
“There are also certain procedures that have to be followed between the Teaching Council of Zambia (TCZ) and the Ministry of General Education”, Mr Mabumba said.
Mr Mabumba, added that there is also a criteria which Madagascar should follow during the selection process before teachers are deployed.
After a bilateral meeting with the new President of Madagascar Andry Rajoelina, President Edgar Lungu disclosed that the leadership in Madagascar has been requesting for teachers from Zambia since the time of late President Levy Mwanawasa.
Other countries creating Jobs for ECL, I thought he said he is going to creat 5000 jobs for Zambians, mind you these teachers if employed will not be paying any taxes to the Zambian GRZ, so its a loss, Wonder why his supporters never question ECL on his lies.
Deploy you say? Is it a tour of duty or expatriate job?
We still have so many grade 12 school leavers who cannot read and those who can are lacking in many academic skills such as poor arithmetic, primary school kids also receive a very poor education and yet we want to export our teachers? Who is going to educate our own kids kanshi? Next we will be asking for teachers from Egypt, Ghana and India as we did years ago.
Which criteria?Cadres like everywhere in civil,defense etc until all systems have collapsed…
Why not let teachers fit themselves into that labor market?
Next thing you will hear is, you have to buy forms, pay a fee, etc.
Just tell people to apply for teaching jobs in Madagascar. Mpela basi.
I have never seen or hear any country people say he is a good president as long as there is opposition leaders.any country they blame president why?
Let HH be in power people will complain.congratulation ECL let those teachers go and work. At first when people used to tell me US is very rich I thought there no robbery or street kids.no any country will be appreciated with all the people.
No wonder you have been ‘deployed’ to South Africa. No sense of good grammar, punctuations used wrongly and no capital letters after random full stops. Go and train as a teachers and go to Madagascar, you are not needed in Zambia, man. We all make mistakes but yours, too much, man!
@bonzoman u are very right sir, HH when he becomes president we will say he is bad and yet the man is so good very educated, caring and wanting to share his economics ideas with zambian pipo
We have a lot of economists who can share.Some are doctors while others are professors.He is not the only one.He has been perceived to be the best in the world.A false status