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Impact of employee benefits on teacher turnover in the public secondary education system, Namibia
(2007) Shihomeka, Sadrag P.
Over the last 5-10 years, the Namibian government has made positive efforts to improve the benefits and services offered to the teaching professionals in the public school education system. This followed heavy public criticisms about the deteriorating quality of the public education system and of its failure to meet the needs of the society as expected in the education act of 2001. The quality of the public education system suffers from a high rate of teacher turn-over largely benefiting the private sector and other parts of the public sector including some migraqtion to countries abroad. Some of the reasons given in teacher exit inetrviews include: terachers in the public sector are not well remunerated; they are not treated well, or taken care of. As a result of poor working conditions of the teachers, many of the young, educated, capable, experienced and skilled teachers left the education system and the gap is being taken up by poorly educated graduates from both the secondary education system and the tertiary education system