Pay teachers better - SADTU Nomusa Mvubu, The New Age, Johannesburg, 15 June 2016 The South African Democratic Teachers Union called for a better pay structure for teachers in the province. Speaking at the education summit at the Mitta Seperepere Convention Centre yesterday, the chairperson of SADTU Senzo Mpalala said the only way to boost teacher morale and to keep the teachers in the province was to find a pay structure that would enable them to grow as teachers. Mpalala said they were losing circuit managers to other provinces due to poor pay and said the only way to retain them was to pay them better. He said they had also been experiencing mass resignations, which negatively impacted on the quality of education. "In order to attract and retain those teachers, we need to come up with a proper pay structure for them," he said. SADTU said it responded to 5 600 teachers in the country and wanted to make sure teachers were given the compensation they deserved. Mpalala said the teachers were forced to work in harsh environments, and have to teach close to 40 children in a class at a time. "We need to come up with a strategy that will help retain our teachers. "We need to come up with a programme against post provision by increasing the pool of teachers in our classrooms. "We also need to start a consultative process regarding modulation," he said. "Modulation allows us as teachers to get children out of the system but not to help them achieve their goals. This needs to be rectified." Regarding the annual national assessment, Mpalala said they as SADTU were not against the assessments but were against them being conducted annually. "I do not want to communicate this any further as there is a task team at national level to deal with this matter," he said. Mpalala applauded the province for coming out clean on the jobs for cash report after having reported no fraudulent activities in the province. "The report is, however, still being challenged nationally but we must try to demystify such challenges faced in the Northern Cape," he said. [email protected] From: http://tnaepaper.co.za/DRIVE/main%20edition/15062016/epaperpdf/22.pdf -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/002201d1c6c7%24ca0e6e70%245e2b4b50%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
