{UAH} Teachers’ pay not poor - education official

Teachers' pay not poor - education official

Written by SAMUEL KAMUGISHA

Last Updated: 02 June 2015

Dr Elizabeth Gabona

If their salaries were poor, teachers would quit, a top ministry official has told a meeting of head teachers, directing them to help the Education Service Commission rid the sector of incompetent teachers.

Dr Elizabeth Gabona, the director, higher, technical, vocational education and training in the ministry of education, science technology and sports was opening a two-day headteachers' conference at Makerere University in Kampala on Monday.

The official had represented Dr Rose Nassali Lukwago, the permanent secretary of the education ministry, who had earlier been expected to open the conference.

She reasoned that teachers would have left the education service if their salaries had been poor, adding that "teachers are also called by God".

She also urged teachers to invest as much determination teaching as they put in their salary increment demands. Gabona also advised school heads to crack the whip on teachers who did not meet the performance indicators.

Her comment comes barely a week after teachers called off their strike following government's insistence that a 10 per cent salary enhancement was unsustainable in the next financial year.

Government and teachers consequently agreed to a 15 per cent increment in the 2016/17 financial year.

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Where there is a will, there is always a way.

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