The Parliamentary Committee on Education, Science and Technology has described government\u2019s decision to recruit 3,000 of over 10,000 trained primary and secondary school teachers as a recipe for corruption.<\/p>\n
Government left out about 10,500 primary school teachers and about 500 secondary school teachers in its 2015\/16 teacher recruitment drive with a promise to recruit them in the 2016\/17 fiscal year.<\/p>\n
As the 2016\/17 fiscal year is ending, it is apparent that recruitment of the left-out teachers and those who have graduated in the past two years has been shifted to 2017\/18 fiscal year.<\/p>\n
But in the 2017\/18 budget, which is being deliberated on, the government has allocated funds for the recruitment of about 3,000 primary school teachers.<\/p>\n
Education Committee Chairperson Elias Chakwera has described the development as unfortunate.<\/p>\n
Chakwera said government has created room for corruption in the recruitment exercise.<\/p>\n
He said it is a burden on the recruitment officers as it will be difficult for them to determine who to include among the 3,000 teachers since there are 10,000 equally qualified teachers.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis process will be marred by a lot of corruption as each of the teachers is looking for a chance to be employed. What criteria will those people who will be responsible for this task use to determine their choices,\u201d Chakwera said.<\/p>\n
He also said schools in the country are struggling with one of the highest teacher-pupil ratios and it is uncalled for to train teachers that government fails to absorb into the system.<\/p>\n
There are about 63,000 teachers who are catering for over four million pupils in public primary schools in the country.<\/p>\n
Civil Society Education Coalition already condemned the budget of the education sector, observing that it fails to address crucial areas such as teacher recruitment and promotions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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