The Zambia National Education Coalition (ZANEC) says government should ensure that the country earns enough revenue from the deployment of the 500 teachers to Madagascar.
ZANEC Executive Director George Hamusunga says revenues earned from such opportunities should be used to invest in teachers that remain in the country.
He says this is to ensure that the quality of the local education system is improved.
“As we are aware, there are about 27,000 qualified teachers who are currently looking for employment against our annual recruitment target of 2,000 teachers,” he said.
“Our concern however is that if government is going to send serving teachers to Madagascar, as we did to Seychelles, we need to be cautious to ensure that we don’t deprive our own children of the best quality of teachers that are currently serving us.”
Meanwhile the ZANEC Executive Director has expressed concern over the decrease in the number of Grade 12 candidates who obtained school certificates.
“In order address this problem, government will need place a premium on the recommendations made by the stakeholders on the improvement of the quality of education in Zambia at the education transformation Conference launched by the two Ministers of General Education and Higher Education at Mulungushi International Conference center on 16th January 2019”.

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