The Teaching Service Commission (TSC) Sierra Leone team set up to engage stakeholders across the country in a bid to popularise the Teacher Deployment Policy has ended a one day key stakeholders’ engagement in the Eastern Region. The meeting took place at the ministry’s conference hall on Maxwell Khobe Street in Kenema. Addressing the gathering, Deputy Director of Education Kenema John Swaray called on participants to focus when discussing issues pertaining to teachers and to table their doubts about teacher employment and deployment.
He encouraged participants to pass on to other community members whatever knowledge they get from the engagement. The Director Teacher Management, Marian Sallay Abu, said the deployment of teachers across the nation has been a problem and that they are now going across the country to get the input of stakeholders. She said at the end of the engagement across the nation, people will know that the TSC “will not just be moving teachers from one place to another, adding that “business as usual is over where in teachers move from one station to another as they wish”.
She disclosed that from 27th October 2020, the TSC will start employing teachers and deploying them anywhere in the district they find themselves, with the aim of ensuring equitable distribution of teachers across the nation to avoid teacher gap.
She assured all of fairness in the process describing teachers as key stakeholders in society.
By Saffa B. Moriba in kenema