CBMP Analytical Report Part 1 - Transparency and Accountability ...
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• The mode of salary access is also affecting their timeliness, especially those on<br />
Malswitch Card. This is because; the banks take even longer to make the<br />
money accessible by the teachers. Even those on cash system have challenges<br />
of their own especially, when it comes to issues of security. Head teachers go<br />
to collect the salaries without security <strong>and</strong> incidences of theft occur. As some<br />
try to solve this problem by making sure that they are accompanied by one or<br />
two fellow teachers, they deprive the pupils of the teaching services.<br />
• Much as the salaries are low, several anomalies occur such are lower than<br />
expected amounts, omission from the Pay-Roll <strong>and</strong> many others. In such cases<br />
teachers will have to follow up with higher authorities to get their money,<br />
they waste time <strong>and</strong> money to get this done <strong>and</strong> deprive pupils of the learning<br />
time<br />
• All these make teachers feel neglected by their employer, their motivation<br />
goes down, have high wiliness to absent themselves from work <strong>and</strong> if they go<br />
to work, they show aggressive behaviour which is not ideal for child mental<br />
development<br />
• Many of them have resorted to a number of coping mechanisms such as<br />
business <strong>and</strong> agriculture. These mechanisms (e.g. tobacco growing) are labour<br />
intensive <strong>and</strong> take away most of the teachers time to prepare <strong>and</strong> deliver<br />
quality services in the education sector<br />
These indeed have severe ramifications on the way the teaching services would be<br />
delivered. However, as mentioned earlier, it is not known to be a problem in the<br />
governance structure of the education sector. This is attested by the fact that it is not<br />
identified in the National Education Sector Plan (NESP) at national level as well as in<br />
the District Education Plans (DEP) at local level. As such it will take time to be<br />
addressed, yet it is one of the factors affecting the delivery of quality education.<br />
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