Teaching jobs just an SMS away
Alet Rademeyer, Beeld
Pretoria - A new arrangement by which teachers can apply for vacant posts in Gauteng by sending an SMS has caused questions about the efficiency of such a system.
Teachers to whom Beeld spoke on Monday were worried that their applications would not get to the department and the correct schools.
There have been problems in the past at the Gauteng education department where people's written applications were lost or were sent to the wrong schools.
With the SMS application, a teacher simply sends an SMS with his full identity number and the reference number of the post for which he is applying, to a cell number.
The teacher will be contacted again so that the rest of the application can be completed by phone.
The reasons the department gave for introducing this method, were that applications for posts could be made 24 hours a day and it also was apparently much cheaper than making copies (of applications) that had to be delivered.
Call-centre problems foreseen
The applications would be answered with a unique reference number which would also serve as proof that an application had been made for a post.
An operator at the call centre working with the applications said teachers would not necessarily receive a call-back on the same day.
South African Teachers' Union (Satu) spokesperson Etrisia Raubenheimer said there were doubts whether the department had the ability to handle applications in this way.
She said that in the past, teachers could attach documents to their applications, which helped with decisions on who should be put on short lists.
''We don't know what the grounds are for people to get on to short lists now.''
News source: www.news24.co.za
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