Mozambique: Government hires 9,000 new teachers

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Mozambique: Government hires 9,000 new teachers

5:44 CAT | 02 Mar 2021

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Mozambique’s ministry for education and human development will hire 9,330 new teachers this year for secondary and primary education, the ministry’s spokeswoman, Gina Guibunda, told Lusa on Monday.

She said that 8,840 teachers would be recruited for primary education and 490 for secondary education.

The new teaching staff will add to the 143,000 teachers the ministry currently has, she said.

The government hopes the new teaching staff means it will have enough teachers for the new academic year, which starts on 22 March.

The northern province of Nampula recruits the largest number of teachers (2,685), followed by Zambezia in the centre (1,938), as these provinces have the highest number of pupils, the spokeswoman said.

“The most populated provinces have the highest number of pupils,” Gina Guibunda said.

Maputo city in the south will receive the fewest teachers (283), followed by Gaza, also in the south (477).

The remaining provinces of the country will recruit between 500 and 750 teachers each.

Source: Lusa