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

teachers (the majority in Mulanje) to run into loans with high interest rates.
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.
• The mode of salary access is also affecting their timeliness, especially those on
Malswitch Card. This is because; the banks take even longer to make the
money accessible by the teachers. Even those on cash system have challenges
of their own especially, when it comes to issues of security. Head teachers go
to collect the salaries without security and incidences of theft occur. As some
try to solve this problem by making sure that they are accompanied by one or
two fellow teachers, they deprive the pupils of the teaching services.
• Much as the salaries are low, several anomalies occur such are lower than
expected amounts, omission from the Pay-Roll and many others. In such cases
teachers will have to follow up with higher authorities to get their money,
they waste time and money to get this done and deprive pupils of the learning
time
• All these make teachers feel neglected by their employer, their motivation
goes down, have high wiliness to absent themselves from work and if they go
to work, they show aggressive behaviour which is not ideal for child mental
development
• Many of them have resorted to a number of coping mechanisms such as
business and agriculture. These mechanisms (e.g. tobacco growing) are labour
intensive and take away most of the teachers time to prepare and deliver
quality services in the education sector
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