Tanzania has improved education systems to match digital development and has asked all teachers with low qualifications to continue learning in colleges in order to obtain higher education that meets the criteria and conditions of the education curriculum in the country.
"The government has not issued instructions to remove certificate teachers from work , but has asked them to use a continuous on_the_job training program to go to colleges to study ", Dr Majaliwa.
He has said that the Government has made improvements to education policies and curricula in the country which, among other things, has brought changes in the minimum qualifications of teachers in primary schools to be diploma. “Despite these changes, the Government recognizes that there are still teachers who have not reached the qualification of having a diploma and there is no order asking them to be removed from employment,” said.
He said that all teachers who do not have the qualifications for a diploma should use the opportunity of a continuous training program at work to go to colleges to study in order to obtain a diploma qualification or develop themselves through a module through the LMs - Learning Management System under the Tanzania Institute of Education (TIE).
Explaining about the promotion of teachers, he said: “Between March, 2021 and August, 2024, 601,698 teachers across the country have been promoted and the Government has spent 1.3 trillion shillings to pay them. And I want the Education Officers to visit the teachers in the villages and listen to their concerns,” emphasized the Prime Minister.
He said that in the period from March, 2021 until now, the Government has been able to change the structures of a total of 36,768 employees at a cost of sh. 3,090,476,931.00 and has paid the salary arrears claims of 144,356 employees with a total of sh. 229.9 million.
Inviting the Prime Minister to speak to the audience, the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Energy, Hon. Dr. Doto Biteko has thanked the Tanzanian teachers for continuing to honor their profession and being a source of knowledge for them does not come from anywhere else except for them, so they should protect the profession with great jealousy.
Dr. Biteko has said that in 2015 when he was elected as a Member of Parliament, his district was taking the last place in the National exams. “I talked to the teachers about the bad results and they said we should not leave the teachers behind so we started meeting and doing an evaluation and now we are doing well.”
The government has emphasized that all people with low level of education in the country should study to expand their field of their education and that in order to keep up with the digital development that is going on in the world now .
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