Teacher employment exercise coming

GOVERNMENTwill recruit more teachers this year to reduce the human resource shortage, General Education Permanent Secretary Jobbicks Kalumba has said.

The ministry recently disclosed that the country has 50, 000 unemployed graduate teachers. Dr Kalumba, who could not disclose the number of teachers to be recruited, said Government was keen to ensure that the human resource crisis in the education sector was reduced.

He said Government would secure resources for the deployment of the teachers this year.

He said that

Government would not relent on this particular matter because more teachers were needed in areas where there was a deficit.

“We are keen to ensure that the recruitment of teachers is done this year. But what I can say is that I cannot tell how many teachers will be deployed this year. All I know is that we shall employ the teachers because we want to ensure that the deficit which can be reduced.

“I know that President Edgar Lungu is on firm ground to ensure that resources are available to employ teachers so that we have more men and women who can advance the learning system in the country,” Dr Kalumba said.

Recently, Minister of General Education, Dennis Wachinis there ga, said the country had 50, 000 unemployed teachers and hinted that Government was considering suspending the admission of students into colleges to curb the high number of unemployed teachers on the streets.

He said there was no need of admitting teachers into training institutions when many of them were unemployed.