KIGALI, Rwanda
Rwanda has started massive recruitment of teachers from Zimbabwe after the two countries signed an agreement early this year that will see Kigali hire tutors from the southern African country to cover a skills gap.
According to a government
official in Harare, 491 Zimbabwean teachers have been shortlisted for
interviews that will be conducted in the next few days.
Zimbabwe’s Public Service Ministry
Permanent Secretary Simon Masanga said Rwanda had requested more tutors to
bridge a longstanding skills gaps and language barriers.
“We are recruiting competent
education personnel to be employed in Rwanda on job position under four
categories: basic education, basic TVET (technical and vocational education and
training), polytechnic and universities,” Mr Masanga said.
A recruitment manual was
jointly agreed to facilitate the hiring. The minimum requirements for the
educators was a bachelor’s degree and post graduate qualification.
“The successful candidates are
expected to travel to Rwanda in September after undergoing pre-departure
training by a team of experts from Zimbabwe and the embassy of Rwanda to ensure
adequate orientation and requisite information is imparted to the Zimbabwean
nationals prior to their deployment,” Mr Masanga added.
Rwanda President Paul Kagame
announced that his country wanted to recruit teachers from Zimbabwe during the
Trade and Investment Conference held in 2021. President Kagame indicated that
the recruitment was to be treated as a matter of urgency in a bid to boost
Rwanda’s education system.
Zimbabwe has thousands of
qualified teachers that cannot be absorbed into its education system and the
country has been pursuing deals with some African countries to export the
labour.
The country has an unemployment
rate of over 80 percent due to years of economic regression and has been
negotiating deals with countries such as South Sudan to export some of its
multitudes of unemployed university graduates. - The East African
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