{"id":41550,"date":"2020-06-17T17:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/reb-to-recruit-7-200-teachers-before-september\/"},"modified":"2020-06-19T21:26:48","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T21:26:48","slug":"reb-to-recruit-7-200-teachers-before-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/reb-to-recruit-7-200-teachers-before-september\/","title":{"rendered":"REB to recruit 7,200 teachers before September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the outbreak of the Coronavirus since March this year, several services were affected including the education sector, putting recruitment on hold. <\/p>\n<p>According to the REB, the teacher\u2019s recruitment plan for 2020-2021 will be the biggest ever with 7,214 new staff needed.<\/p>\n<p>The recruitment intends to bridge the student-teacher ratio which stands at 59:1 in Primary and 29:1 in Secondary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government is building new classrooms, and of course, we need teachers too. We are waiting for the government to advise us on how the exercise should resume,\u201d Dr. Irenee Ndayambaje, Director General of Rwanda Education Board (REB) said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe recruitment exercise was halted at the level of receiving applications. We shall resume it, verify teachers\u2019 qualification documents, and start their placements in schools before September.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>In this plan, 3,799 teachers will go to primary, 3,417 are destined to secondary while 386 teachers are being recruited for Technical and Vocational Education training (TVET) schools.<\/p>\n<p>In Rwanda, there are 2,479,366 students in primary schools and 636,162 students in secondary schools. However, this number is projected to increase as schools reopen in September 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The country has 41,573 teaching staff in primary schools and 21,990 teaching staff in public secondary schools, according to the ministry of education.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cWe expect a much bigger number of students as schools reopen in September, some children will start school for the first time. But they should already find teachers and classrooms, these are simultaneous.\u201d Dr. Ndayambaje said. <\/p>\n<p>The government has started construction of 22,505 primary, secondary, and vocational institutions classrooms to improve the students \u2013 teacher ratio.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-35899 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mwari-0c7a4.jpg\" alt=\"REB announced they will embark on a nationwide teacher recruitment exercise for primary and secondary schools before September 2020.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda Education Board (REB) announced they will embark on a nationwide teacher recruitment exercise for primary and secondary schools before September 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[2942],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-41550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-nicole-kamanzi-m"],"bylines":[{"id":2942,"name":"Nicole Kamanzi M.","slug":"nicole-kamanzi-m","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":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2942,"name":"Nicole Kamanzi M.","slug":"nicole-kamanzi-m","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":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41550","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41550"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=41550"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=41550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}