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Dokora strikes again, bars inspection of teachers
01 May 2016 at 03:10hrs | Views
PRIMARY and Secondary Education Minister Dr Lazarus Dokora has vowed to bar Civil Service Commission officials from inspecting teachers.
He branded them as unprofessionals who do not understand the functioning of the education system.
"We don't want these CSC officials anywhere near our schools" he told a Zimta conference in Victoria Falls.
"They have no business at all there. Just last week I had a meeting with their chairperson (Mariyawanda Nzuwah) where I made all my feelings quite clear, CSC inspectors simply have no business in my schools and I don't want them there.
"It cannot suffice that teachers be supervised by people who are not even professionals.
They don't even understand the education system of the country hence it does not make sense for them to be dictating how teachers are supposed to conduct themselves professionally when they themselves are not professionals," said Dokora.
In the past teachers used to be inspected by district education officers but CSC has taken over the mandate to inspect all civil servants arguing that they were the employer.
He branded them as unprofessionals who do not understand the functioning of the education system.
"We don't want these CSC officials anywhere near our schools" he told a Zimta conference in Victoria Falls.
"They have no business at all there. Just last week I had a meeting with their chairperson (Mariyawanda Nzuwah) where I made all my feelings quite clear, CSC inspectors simply have no business in my schools and I don't want them there.
"It cannot suffice that teachers be supervised by people who are not even professionals.
They don't even understand the education system of the country hence it does not make sense for them to be dictating how teachers are supposed to conduct themselves professionally when they themselves are not professionals," said Dokora.
In the past teachers used to be inspected by district education officers but CSC has taken over the mandate to inspect all civil servants arguing that they were the employer.
Source - SundayNews
