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Education PS Calls For Patience On Teacher Recruitment
MINISTRY of Education permanent secretary Chishimba Nkosha has called for patience among unemployed teachers as his ministry is working at finalising the recruitment process.
Unemployed teachers in most parts of the country have expressed anxiety over the delays to release names of successful applicants for the teacher recruitment exercise.
But in an interview, Nkosha called for patience among the applicants, saying the names would be released any time soon once the selection process was completed.
“We don’t want to rush into doing things. We want this whole process to be fair and transparent, without any mistakes. If you rush, you end up making a lot of mistakes and that is what we are trying to avoid,” he said. “We have heard of some people saying we don’t have money to recruit teachers; that is not correct. People were applying through district board secretaries; so after August 21st, people started compiling those lists and we have given them selection guidelines. So, they are doing the shortlisting; that is how far we have gone. After doing the shortlisting, we shall invite them to come to Lusaka and that is how transparent the exercise is.”
Nkosha said the process was slowly coming to an end and that his ministry could not afford to lose an opportunity of employing 5,000 teachers when the country needed more manpower in the schools.
“Once they come to Lusaka, they will show us how transparent their selections were; they will also show us the lists of qualified candidates and their qualifications and their qualifications will be verified by various examining officers and the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) will also be there to look at the papers and the people they have selected, whether they qualified or not. Even those who have not been selected, they will also tell us why they have not selected them,” said Nkosha.
“It is a process which is slowly coming to an end. People should just be patient. They will be employed before the end of this year. Once you have been give treasury authority to employ teachers, we can’t miss that chance of employing 5,000 teachers.”
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Hollines
September 25, 2015 at 4:38 am
No insults here please umungulu ukutali
kakolwe
September 25, 2015 at 6:36 am
The explanation from Nkosha is plausible. If applications were at district level, then extra attention is required. You will find that, in their desperation, some of the applicants sent their applications to 30 districts country wide. With their good qualifications, they may have been picked in all districts where they applied. Ensure also that ALL attached certificates are from real institutions and not Masumba’s University of Matero. Take your time.
telemundo
September 25, 2015 at 2:49 pm
Iyo kwena naunsekesha boi,kaili just the other day I read somewhere that 1000 were gonna be pf cadres and I said to myself “what kind of nonsense is this?”. A pure lie.
Mano Chishinka
September 25, 2015 at 6:42 am
The truth is that the PF government is broke. If it cannot pay existing teachers and other civil servants on time it obviously has no money to recruit more teachers. SIMPLE!
Osaninyenga Wenye
September 25, 2015 at 11:50 am
correct! Ngandu Magande said that the PF government is choking itself tight by doing projects meant for thirty (30) years in five years. This is why it has run out of money. Credit must go to the PF government for being so unselfish by embarking on such expensive ventures, few would dare. HH and his money hungry GBM can never. They would rather [pocket the money than develop the country. Viva Lungu, ifintu ni Lungu because he is performing. Load shedding, etc are very temporal.
Mitanda Hamakuba
September 25, 2015 at 11:56 am
Osaninyenga Wenye, you are right. President Lungu is performing because nothing goes without infrastructure. Everything starts with infrastructure. Farmers can not transport their produce without good roads, school cannot run without roads, health needs clinics and hospitals etc so vintu ndi a Lungu.
Guy Scott was right when he said that Lungu won due to God’s hand. It has shown that this President is given to us by God. Hes humble and all inclusive. 2016, PF will go through again, HH must start preparing for 3016.
Sir Blessings
September 25, 2015 at 6:49 am
Why can’t govnmnt come out open and tell people the truth? Ealier it was reported that govnment wil deploy new teachers in september bt nothn has hapnd. Busy buildin new schools bt failin to recruit teachers
biko
September 25, 2015 at 8:01 am
Which govnm has failed to pay teachers? Sometimes we should say good where its due. The month ends on 30 or 31 but they got paid on 23. In April when they had salaris on 16th, I neva heard anybody thanking that. This is why we cant develop bcoz we politisiz everything.
Miyanda Hamakuba
September 25, 2015 at 12:02 pm
Biko, do not worry. Our friends in the op[position think, wrongly so, that to be in opposition, you must say no to everything.
Anyway, let us recall the wise voices from the departed that said UPND shall forever remain behind just like buttocks are. levy Patrick Mwanawasa said so and he was right. UPND is so necessary to this country but it is necessary ONLY AS BUTTOCKS not the special tools in front for progress. So thank you UPND for fulfilling Mwanawasa’s prophesy of continuing as buttocks.
Who can vote for a Satanist anyway? Who can vote for a tribalist anyway? 2016, lets await HH’s cry again.
Mano Chishinka
September 25, 2015 at 9:17 am
biko please understand that every employer, including the government, has a fixed pay day for its employees. Can you explain why the PF government fails to comply with its own fixed pay day for civil servants if not for lack of money?
sir Goerge
September 25, 2015 at 12:33 pm
They just diverted what could have been saleries for 5000 × 5 months. Who doesnt know by now pf opperates? Teachers will only be omployd in January next year.Professional liers,how i detest lies.
Xilef
September 25, 2015 at 6:00 pm
My Fellow Zambians You Are Sayng Ifintu Ni Lungu Jst Wait & See For Next 3months What Is To Happen To This Bankrupt Admnstration Since Most Of The Tax Payers Are No Longer Employed & Yo Ifintu Ni Did’t Even Produce A Word Over The Same.
Kalyobwele
September 25, 2015 at 7:57 pm
Think before you say or do anything.rule numbe1 of no regrets.
1stly you need to undastand how many pipo aplied & how many are needed…ts not a pik pik na pik doli…game…kwati uletola intoyo..its a proces…tek it is
No wonder we fail alot ukubilima.
Wetha it or not Teachaz wilb employd….ngabalilya impiya…its thre hedache to fix.
We hold them acountable…wory not
But remember:MANY ARE CALLED BUT FEW ARE CHOSEN
top 2
September 25, 2015 at 9:24 pm
am happy 2 hear frm d ps. i thnk pf shud count ma vote
King
September 29, 2015 at 1:52 pm
Okey but hurry up we are tired of being ba john solye ubwali with our hard earned degrees under the armpits.