Teachers in the country have asked Malawi National Examinations Board (MANEB) to pay all invigilators and supervisors their 2017 invigilation allowances before August 31, 2017 or else all teachers will put tools down in September.
Teachers through Teachers Union of Malawi (TUM) have faulted MANEB for failing to pay allowances to teachers who supervised and invigilated the 2017 Malawi School Certificate of Education (MSCE) exams.
In a statement issued by TUM and signed by its secretary Charles Kumchenga, the teachers’ body says it is not happy with MANEB’s conduct of delaying the allowances every year.
“TUM wishes to express great shock over the shameful conduct of MANEB of always taking teachers for granted when it comes to payment of their hard earned supervision and invigilation allowances. We fail to understand the reason why MANEB should have the audacity of hiring teachers to administer National Examinations and yet they fail to pay the teachers, after they efficiently and effectively administer the examinations.
“TUM expects all the 2017 invigilators and the supervisors to be paid their deserved allowances latest by 31st August 2017 failure of which shall attract a call to all teachers not to open schools in September 2017,” reads the statement.
According to the union, the allowances are supposed to be paid in advance before the hired teachers commence their task of supervision and invigilation as a package to facilitate their smooth implementation of their task.
TUM in the statement claims that it has now and again knocked on the door of MANEB over the matter but the exam body has been saying that Treasury is yet to fund it.
“We are stunned to be informed that Treasury is yet to fund MANEB, yet the MSCE examinations were planned way back from last year. The general public may recall that the 2016 MSCE invigilation allowances were also paid in confrontational manner as TUM had called for an industrial action which prompted MANEB and Treasury to act in a fire fight manner,” reads the statement in part.
Teachers union has since urged the Treasury to swiftly provide the required funding to MANEB so that “innocent and silent suffering teachers should be paid their hard earned allowances.”
The union has warned that the suitability and integrity of senior officers at Treasury and MANEB will be questioned if the allowances are not given to teachers by the end of August.
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Aaaaah zaziiii….they just use you but u dont know…akangokuuzani go to work zalowa inu basi….
muzilandila chile ndalamazo musanalembese
Strike again! Just be fired yourself then, pave way to ODL 4 pliz.
I don’t know why teachers invigilate exams, this can always raise conflict of interest. Why not using doctors for biology,accountants for maths,agriculture officers for agriculture,Robert chiwamba for chichewa,etc
Aah Zanuzo Mukasankha Nokha!
Such things are just very strange in the the education system. It wasn’t like this. Invigilation pa ngongole. Shame!!!!!
clear message to teachers: We are tired of your stories ! We also have our problems with our employers and not resolved ,our issues are not resolved in papers! Your friends at Prisons services are also suffering, why didnt you raise this issue with the leave grant issue? You press hard the government when your debts have accumulated. Solve your ussues outside the papers without bothering us! Its too much from you! It shows you are lazy teachers!
You mean government planned exams out of your pockets & you went on? If yes then You teachers are to fault because you could boycott before exams or else it was an agreement just wait for the government to refund your pockets back
Solution:Markers should decline to go till the gvt pays the invigilators/supervise,u ll c the pushing vehicle ll start off.But can a teacher do zat?
I blame all teachers who took in the exercise.How can u accept to go without?other departments never do that even an MP or minister.You already know your gvt that it cant work bcz the engine has faults.Ndi galimoto yokhanka,inu nukwera yotere.Musalire!
I dont understand y most ppo say teachers voted for this regime,how? We didnt force anyone to vote for either of the paties but rather we jst made the voting went on accordingly.