By Francis Kajubi , The Guardian
PRESIDENT Samia Suluhu Hassan has approved plans for recruiting 46,000 public servants that include 12,000 teachers.
George Simbachawene, the Public Service Management and Good Governance state minister in the President’s Office, told the National Assembly yesterday that the health sector has over 10,000 posts allocated.
Contributing to debate on budget estimates for the President’s Office, Regional Administration and Local Governments (PO-RALG) for 2024/25, he said the government is confident that the recruitment will help to bridge the shortage of teachers in public schools.
The government is in the process of delegating teachers’ recruitment mandate to regional commissioners’ offices, he said, hinting that the 24,000 other recruited civil servants will be directed to other sectors.
Decentralization in teachers’ recruitments will facilitate identification of schools with acute shortage of educators for priority in allocating new teachers, he said.
He was adding to an answer by Zainabu Katimba, the PO-RALG deputy state minister, who said that the government has plans of recruiting more teachers to contain the prevailing shortage in government schools.
She was responding to Bernadeta Mushashu (Special Seats) who wanted to know plans in place by the government for recruiting enough Mathematics and Science teachers.
The deputy minister said the government was recruiting Basic Mathematics and Science teachers in primary and secondary schools on the basis of budget allocations and disbursements.
During fiscal years 2020/21 and 2022/23 a total of 18,016 primary school teachers were recruited. However, 10,917 secondary school teachers were recruited during the same period.
The breakdown for Basic Mathematics and Science teachers during the period shows that in 2020/21 upwards of 3,000 teachers were recruited, while 2021/22 a batch of 3,742 teachers was recruited, with fiscal 2022/23 seeing another batch of 4,175 teachers being recruited, she added.
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