{{About 10,000 teachers face expulsion in a crackdown on illegal immigrants in Tanzania, private school owners said Thursday.}}<\/p>\n
The Tanzania Association of Managers and Owners of Non-Government Schools and Colleges (Tamongsco) told reporters that the crackdown would have serious repercussions on private English medium schools.<\/p>\n
Tamongsco secretary-general Benjamin Nkonya said most schools could not afford the $2,000 fee for a two-year work permit required for foreign teachers.<\/p>\n
“A school with ten foreign teachers, for example, cannot afford to pay $20,000. We have appealed that the fee either be scrapped or reduced,” he said.<\/p>\n
School owners raised the matter with President Jakaya Kikwete in Mbeya last year, and were still waiting for a response, Mr Nkonya added.<\/p>\n
He said Tomongsco members told President Kikwete that they had no option but to hire foreign teachers to work in private English medium schools due to a shortage of local tutors.<\/p>\n
The teacher to student ratio in Tanzania is 1:40, with a demand of 23,546 teachers. There are 13,657 teachers, which is only 58 per cent of requirements.<\/p>\n
This has prompted private schools to employ 9,889 teachers from neighbouring Kenya, Uganda, Malawi and Zambia.<\/p>\n
Mr Nkonya also accused police and immigration officers of mistreating and humiliating foreign teachers, saying some had been handcuffed in front of their pupils and bundled into police vehicles.<\/p>\n
“This is not only humiliating, it also had an adverse psychological effect on pupils, especially those who were sitting the Standard Seven national examination,” he said.<\/p>\n
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