The Recruitment of Support Staff in Tanzanian Secondary Schools

Abstract

This  paper focuses on the meaning, classification and types of support staff, their contributions  towards conducive teaching and learning environments, conditions required/attributes required for support staff to be employed in temporally or permanent terms. It   further identifies current  situations and  challenges in recruitment and recruited (employed ) support staff in Tanzanian secondary schools, basing on a  minor survey.The survey is  challenging  the ongoing Secondary Education Development Programme (SEDPI&II 2004- 2015) from the human recourses perspective.  The demand for human resources to meet the need of quality education remains high. The main reward of the SEDP I&II programme is the increased number of  schools, teaching staff and facilities and to the great extent the recruitment of support staff is almost neglected whilst there is  a high demand of them. In short the survey justifies the need of support staff in or schools. The  paper also proposes approaches to school administration  in recruiting support staff  for the aim  improving the quality of education and therefore helping the school to excel a superb achievement and development in both academic and School community.Thus, for the reason of heading to the better education, recruitment of support staff in Tanzanian schools is obligatory for the reason of providing conducive environment for school management, teaching and learning. Every position in the school, regardless of what that job is, adds to the success of the school and therefore learning outcomes for the students as a whole. In short, it is a team effort.

Keywords: Support Staff  Recruitment Quality Education