By Mohamed Vandi in Kenema
Deputy director education south, John Swaray, has told a meeting of head teachers, principals and education stakeholders in Bo that a lot of academic documents forwarded to the ministry of education for recruitment are forged.
He said the corrupt practice was done by some teachers to convince the minister that they were qualified for recruitment. He said those documentswere rejected by the minister and there were plans to investigate possible culpability.
He said most of other documents present were not original and the Minister insisted on submitting original documents, adding that photocopy documents were also rejected.
He said his minister was very careful about recruiting trained and qualified teachers at all levels of primary, Junior Secondary and Senior Secondary.
‘Those with teacher’s certificates that applied to teach in secondary schools were not approved because they should be seen teaching in the primary schools”, he said, adding that there is no room for untrained and unqualified teachers in the recruitment process.
Swaray noted that the school heads about the ministry’s plan to closedown schools that did not have establishment. He said the country was not a lawless state where anybody could open schools without the ministry’s approval.
He warned them to desist from such unlawful acts, adding that “our minister is very strict and will not relent in ensuring the correct thing is done in the education sector”.
Moses Tailor, one among many of those unfortunate ones,said “this is a very tough time for teachers” as many of them just from the universities “were not considered by the minister for recruitment”.
He called on the minister of education, Dr. Minkailu Bah,to speed up the recruitment process.
(C) 25 February 2014
