The Government under the Ministry of Education and sports is to recruit 2000 secondary school teachers at the opening of January 2023 to bridge the gaps in many schools around the country.

The Openings to be filled effective January are said to have been created after 400 secondary school teachers retired  this year. The openings are also due to a clean up of secondary school payroll which removed 600 teachers who forged documents.

Ms. Janet Museveni – the minister for Education and Sports commissioned the cleanup which called for a verification exercise under the auspices of the Education Service Commission.

Uganda National Teacher’s Union (Unatu) General Secretary – Mr. Filbert Baguma welcomed the impending  recruitment. He however suggested that the deployment be done judiciously to plug all gaps across the country.

“If deployment is not sufficient to cover the entire country, then there will be no effective teaching and learning,” he reasoned, adding; “[The deployment] should be balanced enough to cover the capacity of each school” Mr. Filbert.

“We are looking at about 2,000 teachers being recruited to fill seed schools, the 600 forgeries we ejected, those who have retired, and the Local Governments that received wage for hire,” the ministry’s spokesperson, Dr Dennis Mugimba -spokesperson for the ministry of Education and Sports.

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