Over 30,000 teachers have been fired in the ongoing verification and registration exercise by the Ministry of Education and Sports, which exercise is expected to end in December 2019.
According to Dr. Jane Egau Okou the Commissioner in charge of Teacher Education and Instruction revealed that sacked teachers had fake academic papers and appointment letters.
Okou expressed that the victims are not allowed to teach in any school and that relevant authorities have been notified.
“Using our teacher management system, we are trying to weed out the unqualified teachers. So far, over 30,000 teachers across the country have been dropped. We hope that by December, everyone would have been registered. When we do that, we shall know the qualified teachers we have, then we shall fill the gap. Because there are many qualified teachers out there who do not have access to the payroll.”
Mr Alex Kakooza, the Education Ministry Permanent Secretary told the press and admitted that Uganda’s education sector still faces a challenge of unqualified teachers.
“We face a challenge of not having qualified teachers not just in primary schools but even in ECD centers. This is a serious issue that we trying to solve as a ministry,” he observed.
The Commissioner for Basic Education at the Education ministry, Dr. Tony Mukasa Lusambu, advised teachers to go ahead and register.
So far, 80,000 teachers have registered.
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