Durban - WHILE the Department of Education’s mobile App has not been working and supposed to be up and running on Friday, March 12, a group of unemployed qualified teachers want online applications to be put on hold.
The KZN Unemployed Educators (KZNUQE), in a statement, asked for the department to return to advertising level one teaching posts in bulletins, as with the other teaching positions, despite the department saying the online processes were running smoothly.
KZNUQE spokesperson Mlekeleli Radebe said they noted that the department had not anticipated such a high number of applicants when it sealed the deal to develop the App with Quality Designs (Pty) LTD.
“It was reported that there is the web portal version available as an alternative measure which has all the features available on the mobile version that candidates have been re-directed to make use of it in the meantime. Nevertheless, the KZNUQE are still struggling to register or login in the alternative web portal version,” he said.
Radebe disputed that the alternate web portal was fully functional and added they had found that first time users were unable to register on it.
“It favours existing candidates who are also unable to view their documents that they have uploaded in the KZNUQE. It does not save what has been edited in the candidate's profile while there are missing documents too. It denies the candidate's password and provides no option for retrieval of forgotten password. There is no block for specialist educators and some learning areas do not appear such as Natural Sciences. Some candidates are unable to login,” he said.
Radebe said on Thursday, March 25, 100 of their members would be marching to the education offices in Pietermaritzburg to hand over a memorandum of their grievances.
He added these unemployed teachers would have their curriculum vitae’s in hand as one of their demands is that 50 percent of these CVs should be accepted by human resources.
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