Dear Editor,AS an Education analyst, I would like to give a timeline of how the 30, 000 teachers will be recruited. My predictions in most cases are often right.The intention of the UPND administration to employ 30, 000 teachers implies that Government wants to address all the needs in the education sector. Zambian schools operated using the archaic MMD models which was designed to address a small population. The number of teachers at primary school is limited. Over the years, populations in schools have exponentially increased. Schools that only had one stream now have five classes per grade. A lot of expansion have been done to accommodate the growing populations. Unfortunately, payroll vacancies for these schools have remained the same. To address these challenges, teachers have been poached from other schools, often in rural areas, to fill up the vacancies in the over populated schools. They draw salaries from rural schools while working elsewhere. As a result, rural […]
THOUGHTS ON TEACHERS’ RECRUITMENT
