Maputo — About 370 teachers in schools in the central Mozambican province of Manica are no longer able to work full time, because they are suffering from HIV/AIDS and associated illnesses.
According to the Manica Provincial Director of Education and Culture, Estevao Rupela, this situation worsens a critical teacher shortage in the province. Currently, Manica is short of about 1,200 teachers.
"We have many teachers who are ill", Rupela told AIM. "Our province is a corridor where we face many situations of illness, and we have colleagues who cannot give their best because they are sick".
To overcome the shortage, healthy teachers are obliged to work longer hours than normal, for which they are paid overtime and shift allowances.
The situation is at its worst in technical education, where there are no qualified staff at all to teach certain technical subjects.
Manica currently has five technical and professional colleges, and a sixth is under construction in Machaze district.
"In technical and professional education, we don't have as many teachers as we would like", said Rupela. "Recently, when we set up the Professional School at Chicodolo, we found it very difficult to obtain teachers trained for the courses taught there'.
"But an effort is being made by the Ministry of Education, with the implementation of several teacher training programmes at the Dom Bosco Institute (in Maputo) and abroad, and with this group of teachers transmitting their experiences to their colleagues", he added.
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201209080009.html
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