Teachers should not allow BEC to exploit them

On September 6 2010, Botswana Secondary School Teachers Union (BOSETU) and Botswana Teachers Union (BTU) went for a meeting to prepare for a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) which was to pave way for negotiations with BEC.

Unfortunately, BEC announced at that meeting that they are not interested in the MOU anymore.  This came as a shock to the unions who have been preparing the MOU documents in good faith.

The unions would like to remind teachers about the High Court judgment of September 28 2009.  The High Court judge ruled that invigilation of external examinations is not the duty of teachers.  The judge pronounced that the “invigilation and supervision of external examinations does not fall within the ambit of duties of the Applicant’s members and that members of the applicant cannot be compelled to invigilate or supervise external national examinations”.

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