Dr Lukwago says that the commission is highly considering deploying teachers depending on where they have applied from. According to Lukwago, this will take immediate effect this month during the next upcoming recruitment exercise.
The Education Service Commission is considering regional recruitment
of teachers.
Unlike in the primary sub-sector where the recruitment process was
decentralized with school staff employed to work in a specific district,
deployment of staff in secondary school is centralized and a teacher can be appointed
or transferred in any part of the country.
Dr Asuman Lukwago, the Secretary to the Education Service Commission says
although the recruitment exercise has not been focusing on a region or district
where the applicant is coming from, over time there have been complaints from
several teachers who are posted in areas where they are not comfortable.
Dr Lukwago further added that the commission is highly considering
deploying teachers depending on where they have applied from. According to
Lukwago, this will take immediate effect this month during the next upcoming
recruitment exercise.
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Information obtained from the commission indicates that they are
going to recruit over 2,500 staff for the 18 new seed schools constructed under
the Uganda Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfer-UGFIT Programme which are set to
be operationalized when schools reopen in January.
Lukwago says that the service commission has already identified 8
regional centres where teachers will be dropping their application from 22 to
26 November 2021. The centres include; Mbale Secondary School, Mbarara High
School, Soroti Secondary School, Jinja Secondary School, Gulu High School,
Kololo Secondary School (Kampala/central) Mvara Secondary School (for Arua) and
Duhaga Secondary School (for Hoima).
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The recruitment will be for 54 headteachers, 17 Deputy teachers,
734 graduate Teachers, 1,436 Grade-V teachers, 27 Bursars, 57 stenographers, 60
Library Assistants, 111 Laboratory Assistants and 47 Nurses.
The new seed schools where the commission where teachers will be
posted include; Nyakinama Seed SS (Kisoro District), Kebisoni Seed SS
(Rukungiri District), Kigarama Seed SS (Sheema District), Bukiro Seed SS
(Mbarara District), Ruborogota Seed SS (Isingiro district), Kabeywa Seed SS
(Kapchorwa District), Kamonkoli Seed SS (Budaka District) and Aduk Seed SS
(Kwania District).
Others are Panyagara Seed SS (Kotido District), Rupa Seed SS
(Moroto District), Lorengecorwa Seed SS (Napak District), Lwebitakuli Seed SS
(Sembabule District), Bukakata Seed SS (Masaka District), Nekemeya Memorial SS
(Kalangala District), Wakiso Seed SS, (Wakiso District), Afyaka Seed SS (Zombo
District) and Atego Seed SS (Nebbi District).
Meanwhile,
to eliminate corruption tendencies during the time of submitting applications,
the commission has set up a box where applicants will be dropping their
applications depending on their teaching subjects thus limiting interacting
with unscrupulous persons who have been requesting money from applicants.
