300 NEW JOBS FOR TEACHERS

MBABANE – It is time up for temporary teachers as they will be required to go home when schools reopen this calendar year to make way for 300 permanent and qualified educators.

This follows the Teaching Service Commission’s (TSC) decision of replacing over 300 temporary teachers in primary schools with those who are qualified.
The 300 teachers will be employed on a permanent basis by government.

Apart from the removal of the temporary teachers, the introduction of Free Primary Education (FPE) in 2010 is said to have also increased the demand for teachers due to the amplified number of pupils.
Some schools were forced to find mobile classes as an alternative to accommodate the pupils.   
Executive Secretary at TSC Mduduzi Nkambule confirmed that they will be replacing all temporary teachers in the country’s four regions.

Nkambule said they had no choice but to replace most of the temporary teachers due to the high number of qualified teachers who had completed tertiary level.
According to Nkambule, there were currently 800 graduates who could not all be absorbed as there were no posts.

He said head teachers normally declared posts in their various schools and the 300 were declared vacant posts that were available to be filled by qualified teachers.
Nkambule said they would start by filling up posts in rural areas as this was where all the temporary teachers had been stationed.

“Replacement of the temporary teachers does not mean that they are less competent but we want the posts to be filled by qualified teachers,” he reiterated.      
Nkambule said teachers submitted their certificates upon graduating and they would now be placing them in the schools that required educators.  

Swaziland Principals Association President (SWAPA) Welcome Mhlanga said the introduction of the Christianity only for Religious Education by government was a huge blow as there were no qualified teachers for this subject. Mhlanga said they were definitely sure that schools submitted requests for vacant posts and were expecting government to act on this.
He said by making Christianity a compulsory subject, it meant there was a requirement for more teachers.  

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