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TSC, stakeholders need to debate new training plans for trainee teachers

Students of Shanzu Teachers Training college during their graduation ceremony. Teachers Service Commission wants to implement a new training programme for trainee teachers. [File]

Teachers Service Commission (TSC) recommendations in regards to the training of teachers have prompted debate, which is good and bad.

It is good because it is bound to instigate a discourse on training regime for teachers, which is rare but will allow us to have a fruitful conversation in shaping teacher training. Diametrically, the debate is bad because it has been hijacked by competing interests within the education system and beyond.

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