Freezing of 453 teaching positions in Western Province is an ‘Administrative Taboo’ protests NAQEZ Executive Director Aaron Chansa Press Release- Wednesday 5th February, 2020
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Stanley Mhango is Teaching Service Chairperson
By Aaron Chansa
Executive Director
+260979 552885
qualityeducationzambia@gmail.com
Revelations by Mr Stanley Mhango, the Chairperson of the Teaching Service Commission (TSC), to the effect that a total number of 453 teaching positions in Western Province have been frozen, can perfectly be described as administrative taboo by National Action for Quality Education in Zambia (NAQEZ).
We find it significantly odd that Senior Education Officers in Western Province could be this inefficient to an extent of failing to simply fill positions that fell vacant.
NAQEZ totally agrees with the Teaching Service Commission that this kind of open maladministration must be duly punished.This is administrative negligence of highest magnitude and total failure of leadership in the Province.
Due to this inefficiency in running Educational institutions and managing teaching staff in Western Province,most teachers in the region have become disoriented.And if nothing is urgently done to lift the morale of the teachers,the performance of learners in this Province will greatly be affected.
Aaron Chansa is NAQEZ Executive Director
NAQEZ strongly suspects that what has happened in Western could also be happening in other Provinces.We therefore encourage the Teaching Service Commission to extend investigations to the remaining Provinces.
As an Organization,we feel that the TSC has not been able to effectively function because it has over delegated its statutory functions to the Ministry of General Education.
Going forward, We propose radical reforms in the running of the Teaching Service Commission, in order for this governmental body to effectively carry out its Human Resource functions in education.One thing which must quickly be done is for the entire Human Resource Department in the Ministry of General Education to be under the Teaching Service Commission.
If this change will not be effected,we can guarantee that the commission will continue blaming HR officers who are currently under the Ministry of General Education, for acute failures.We need a Teaching Service Commission which will promptly handle the welfare of teachers in Zambia.We are tired of having teachers who act in substantive positions even for more than 8 years; others are retiring in acting capacities.
Ismael Noo with Stanley Mhango (Centre) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.May 10, 2012
