By ROGERS KALEROGOVERNMENT should consider allocating 10,000 teachers out of the 30,000 earmarked for recruitment next year to qualified special education teachers and teachers with disabilities,” Special Education Teachers Union of Zambia (SPETUZ) has said.SPETUZ executive director Frankson Musukwa said his union had welcomed government’s decision to employ more than 30,000 teachers and therefore it wanted to have a share from the 30,000 teachers to be employed.“The special education equally has a critical shortage of teachers with a teacher pupil ratio estimated at about one to 90 therefore in order to address such a challenge, the government should allocate 10,000 teachers of the 30,000 earmarked for recruitment to the special education,” Dr Musukwa said.Mr Musukwa also said before the 30,000 teachers were deployed, the government must ensure that all teachers that had acquired higher qualifications in various fields of study were upgraded to their appropriate and correct salary scales.He said it would be demoralising for […]
Allocate 10, 000 teachers to special schools, govt urged
