10 Dec 2015

Parliament has been told that there are 1 303 Batswana graduates from colleges of education or universities that are employed by the Ministry of Education and Skills Development as temporary teachers country wide.

Responding to a parliamentary question, Mr Moiseraele Goya said out of the total, 285 had taught consecutively for periods one to five years and remained employed by the ministry. He however said some of them were once offered permanent employment but could not take up the offer because they were not comfortable with the areas where they were posted to.

“I would like to indicate that these temporary teachers have been captured in the pool of the ministry’s entry level graduate database. To this end, 168 have been absorbed on permanent and pensionable basis since August 2015,” said Mr Goya.

Selebi Phikwe West MP, Mr Dithapelo Keorapetse had asked the Minister of Education and Skills Development to state the total number of Batswana graduates from colleges of education or universities that were currently employed by the ministry as temporary employees.He had also wanted to know the number of such Batswana teachers who had taught for periods one to five consecutive years and were still temporary employees. Ends