Government says it will recruit more than five thousand qualified teachers to meet the pupil-teacher ratio in schools.
Lusaka Province Permanent Secretary Daniel Bowasi says this is because it is government’s focus to provide quality education through the provision of adequate but professionally trained teachers.
Mr. Bowasi was speaking in Lusaka during the Provincial Education Labour Day awards giving ceremony for teachers.
The Provincial Permanent Secretary stated that government has launched and paid for the long awaited fast track teacher training programme to enable diploma holder science, mathematics’, social sciences and commercial teachers to pursue degree courses.
He said government places teachers in a special category of workers on whom the economy of the country evolves.
” Government will continue to endeavor to improve teacher’s conditions of service through meaningful dialogue with their unions,” Mr. Bowasi said.
He noted that strong economies world over are as a result of maximum utilization of skilled manpower which is a product of a teacher
Speaking earlier Provincial Education Officer (PEO) Alice Nzala said academically Lusaka Province has generally performed well in last years grade seven examinations with pass percentage at 75.
Ms. Nzala said this was possible with collective effort from community, private, and grant aided schools.
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As usual, assurances in a year of elections.we shall patiently wait
It is a good move. Hope the first pay won’t take long. And i think teachers should not wait to be employed but be employed after graduating. We are trained to be employed.
Good news. Let it be that teachers are employed after graduating. Hope i will be among the recuirted teachers.
campaign issuessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss! its rb at iy again. nothing is going to change. ba mmd its over. its sata or any other; period!
Next item- the MMD Govt of Rupiah Banda is to recruit 500 toilet attendants from China to cover for the current shortage of Banamazai in Lusaka. ‘The current shortage is due to lack of graduates entering this noble profession’ said Sanitation Minister and spokesperson Dora Siliya….
so ba pf you don’t want teachers to be recruited? didn’t you hear that ba sata changed his tune at the mongu rally, that even he now wants to build schools too? he even promised to “build” schools that are about to be completed by rb!
The comedy of errors continue. Let developmental projects be throughout the 5 years you are in power and not only when there is an election no wonder the entire President can now officiate the grand opening of a Pre-School. All these are acts of desperation. We will get whatever you will be offering but its donchi kubeba. Shame!
To me this is not news. It is the government’s responsibility to employ teachers upon graduation. When I graduated (late 80’s) from UNZA, I was employed immediately and even went to an extent of choosing the province and the town/city in which I wanted to work as a teacher. One term down the line I was HOD Sciences and even received the hefty housing allowance by then.
This really sucks! Do teachers have to wait for an election year before they get employed! MMD please give us a break!
# 9, this really sucks. Since when did Provincial PS’s start announcing jobs on behalf of the Ministry of Education? So, who is hiring here, the Ministry or the Province? This RB government now is totally confused. They don’t even know when and how to hire teachers. Sata has made MMD and government behave like headless chickens. CONFUSED. They don’t even know what to do next.I think Zambia may become a good country if we started having elections every year. At least we can see the desperation in MMD and government. Soon they will hire people to clean Soweto market. Keep watching, Banda will soon commission Clean Soweto Market Campaign.