Currently, salaries of teachers in public nursery schools are paid by parents.
“The Ministry of Education plans that teachers in nursery will be paid salaries by the Government starting with next fiscal year. Efforts by parents are not enough. When the Government doesn’t pay them salaries, there are no planned means to follow them up and train them,” Dr. Ndayambaje said adding that the number of certified nursery teachers is still low and unless the Government sets ways to treat them well, they can’t deliver expected results.
Rwanda Government projects the number of children between five and six years pursuing nursery education to increase from 24% to 45% in the next seven years.
According to the Education Ministry figures of 2017, there were 3,186 nursery schools of which 455 are public with 1,484 being public-private whereas 1,247 schools are private.
In 2017, there were 6,039 nursery school teachers in Rwanda.
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