By Staff Reporter
Zambia National Union of Teachers (ZNUT) has called for an investigation into
the 2015 teachers recruitment alleging
that Trainee teachers with months remaining before graduation are among the 4,450 teachers recruited leaving out many graduates, some with superior university degrees.
ZNUT Public Relations Officer Joe Kasaka added that the recruitment was not on merit but riddled with inconsistencies and irregularities.
Mr. Kasaka confirmed that some trainee teachers who are still in college and due to complete their courses this year (2015) were recruited, whilst those who completed years back were left out.
“We have a lot of teachers that completed some years back and they were not recruited,” he said adding that the union was deeply aggrieved by the manner in which the teacher’s recruitment programme had been handled.
WM Media has received several reports pointing to irregularities in this years teachers recruitment some which suggests that some teachers were deliberately left out despite having suitable qualifications.
Mr. Kasaka has since appealed to the offices of the District Education Board Secretary (DEBS) throughout the country to scrutinize the newly recruited teachers and ensure that only teachers with qualifications were recruited.
He said that it was so unfair to leave out people with qualifications and select those who were still in college.
Mr. Kasaka stressed that there were a lot of teachers roaming the streets, yet they had all the qualifications required.
“We are just appealing to the offices of the DEBS throughout the country to see to it that only teachers with qualifications must be recruited and not teachers that are still in college whose year of completion is 2015,” he said, adding if the year of completion is 2015, it means that those people are still in college.
“The people that are in college cannot be enrolled, you can’t employ them, unless for sure we don’t have any other person that we can employ,” he emphasized.
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