CBMP Analytical Report Part 1 - Transparency and Accountability ...

4.0 CONCLUSIONS
The study concludes that the education sector is important for the development of the
nation and delivery of quality services is paramount. However, the sector is quite big
and not easy to manage, such that it is difficult to look at all issues that affect the
delivery of quality services by the management of the sector. From a private sector
point of view, the study looked at the efficiency of the administrative system, with
salary timeliness as an indicator. This is to find out whether timeliness of salaries has
an impact on the delivery of the teaching service at primary school level. From the
findings, 100% of the teachers’ salaries delay and the study concludes that 87% of the
teachers are stressed with the timeliness of their salaries. As such their teaching is
affected, such that more than 30% confirmed that they do not teach normally when
their salaries have delayed.
A number of issues attest to the fact that the teachers are not happy and delivery of
services are not good as a result of salary delivery system; for example;
• Many teachers feel that their salaries are low and do not meet their household
needs. As they try to stay longer in the service to get experience and
promotion so that they would earn more, they are hardly promoted and
continue to stay at lower ranks. This makes them unhappy in their profession.
• On a monthly basis, the salaries come late, earliest being 29 th of the month
instead of 27 th , and the latest being the 7 th of the next month. This makes them
run into loans with high interest rates running. So, as creditors follow up with
them, they run into trouble with salary delays. They become restless and
others run into hiding, absenting themselves from the classes. Even their
households do not run properly and affect their commitment to delivery of
quality education service.
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