{"id":32899,"date":"2017-02-28T16:53:57","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T16:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/mineduc-for-teacher-head-count\/"},"modified":"2017-03-02T08:28:31","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T08:28:31","slug":"mineduc-for-teacher-head-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/mineduc-for-teacher-head-count\/","title":{"rendered":"MINEDUC for teacher-head count"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The Ministry of Education (MINEDUC) has announced that it will undertake a census to establish the exact number of teachers in public schools with an aim of cleaning registers to eliminate ghost teachers. }<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry, in a statement released today, has announced that physical teacher head-counting in public and government-aided schools nationwide will commence on 10th March 2017.  <\/p>\n<p>The announcement of which IGIHE has a copy reads that the census is meant to establish the exact number of teachers, calling upon them to carry their identifications, academic credentials and RSSB membership card.<\/p>\n<p>No one, the statement says, will be allowed to be represented by another person.  <\/p>\n<p>Cases of inconsistencies in the teachers\u2019 payroll and ghost degrees arose in the 2015\/16 Public Service Commission report presented to parliament on 26th January 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The report revealed that Nyagatare district employed 1590 teachers but 1719 teachers receive salaries, creating as many as129 ghost teachers.  <\/p>\n<p>The report also indicated that some teachers holding secondary school certificates are remunerated as university graduates.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-18534 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/gasana-13-2-38cdd-33e7c_1_.jpg\" alt=\"The Director General,Janvier Gasana.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Ministry of Education (MINEDUC) has announced that it will undertake a census to establish the exact number of teachers in public schools with an aim of cleaning registers to eliminate ghost teachers. } The Ministry, in a statement released today, has announced that physical teacher head-counting in public and government-aided schools nationwide will commence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-32899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32899"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=32899"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=32899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}