The Covid-19 pandemic has increasingly showed the blurry portrait of the welfare of contract teachers, referred to as “honorer” teacher. However, the pandemic is an opportune time to improve their welfare.

The government announced on Tuesday (17/11/2020) that contract teachers would be given the opportunity to take online tests in 2021 in hopes of gaining civil servant status.

The emergency solution is to employ teachers on a cyclical contract system and this has been going on for years. Contract teachers can even be employed for a dozen years.

The government has announced that it will give contracted teachers the opportunity to attain civil servant status However they will have to undergo a strict selection process that ensures the quality of civil servants Category-2 contracted workers registered at the Administrative and Bureaucr