Dakar, September 30 (APS) – The Minister of National Education, Moustapha Guirassy, has assigned 1,500 teachers for preschool, elementary and modern daaras (Koranic schools) and 501 teachers for high schools and colleges, indicates a press release received at APS.
Their deployment is part of the implementation of the directives of the Prime Minister, Ousmane Sonko, and the commitments of the Minister of National Education for an effective return to date, explains the press release. He points out to this effect that the ministry has handed over the service orders of all outgoing teachers to the academy inspectors, in the presence of the education and training inspectors, this Friday, September 28, 2024.
For a long time, specifies the press release, ”staff were put in place several weeks after the start of the school year, which prevented the effective resumption of teaching and learning, especially in areas affected by the numerous departures caused by the national movement of teacher transfers” ‘.
”This year, for the first time, the academies and Education and Training inspectorates have all received as many teacher arrivals as departures and sometimes even more,” informs the ministry’s communications department. .
Also, in accordance with the five-year plan for reducing teacher deficits, the Minister of National Education will also proceed with the ”implementation of said plan to deal with the irreducible deficit identified for the 2024/2025 school year”.
The ministry urges assigned teachers to “return to their posts as soon as possible in order to start the school year on October 3, 2024.” He assures that ”all arrangements have been made for their salary support from the end of October 2024 and wishes them a great career in this noble profession”.
The press release also recalls that ”as part of the systemic transformation to which our country aspires, eleven strategic levers are defined for the sub-sector including the valorization of the teaching profession, the promotion of an inclusive policy of academic excellence and educational”.
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