Dar es Salaam, Feb. 21 -- DODOMA: OVER 6,000 teachers have been recruited in different primary and secondary schools after they successfully passed their interviews at different levels.

Already, the new teachers have been assigned their duty stations in different parts of the country, according to the Head of Government Communications of the Public Service Recruitment Secretariat (PSRS), Ms Lynn Chawala.

In a statement availed to the media yesterday, Ms Chawala said that the new jobs are part of 14,648 teaching slots provided by President Samia Suluhu Hassan in efforts to reduce shortage of teachers.

After the PSRS announced the vacancies, the government kicked off an exercise for conducting interviews countrywide to fill the 14,648 po...