{"id":274415,"date":"2018-09-30T08:20:41","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T06:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=274415"},"modified":"2018-09-30T08:20:41","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T06:20:41","slug":"teachers-ditch-south-africa-for-bigger-salaries-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/274415\/teachers-ditch-south-africa-for-bigger-salaries-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Teachers ditch South Africa for bigger salaries abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Skilled teachers are leaving South Africa to pursue careers in Abu Dhabi, according to a report in the Sunday Times.<\/p>\n<p>A study conducted by University of KwaZulu-Natal master\u2019s student Tatum Niemack, found that local teachers are leaving the country for financial, social, religious, and political reasons.<\/p>\n<p>A big incentive to want to make the move to the United Arab Emirates, is the high salary the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/sunday-times\/news\/2018-09-29-teachers-quit-in-droves-for--gulf-posts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sunday Times<\/a> said, noting that teachers in Abu Dhabi can earn between R50,000 and R78,000 per month, up to five-times more than a local salary.<\/p>\n<p>South African Council of Educators (Sace) spokesperson Thembinkosi Ndhlovu called the trend a worry for local skills development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has implications for the brain drain and is leaving the country in short supply of valuable experience and good teachers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeachers, especially experienced ones, leaving the profession is not good for the country as invested knowledge and skills are needed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cape Town teacher-placement agency SA-Recruitment said that close to 80 teachers had been recruited through the agency for Abu Dhabi posts in the past two years.<\/p>\n<p>Teachers who make the move are provided with housing, medical insurance, and flight allowances for them and their family as part of the recruitment package, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, a month\u2019s salary is offered as a bonus for every year they work there and is paid out at the end of their contract.<\/p>\n<p>SA-Recruitment stated that most teachers who apply for placement through the agency request to work in Abu Dhabi specifically, because of the much higher tax-free salaries.<\/p>\n<p>The National Professional Teacher\u2019s Organisation of SA (Naptosa) executive director Basil Manuel told the Sunday Times that local teachers can easily find employment abroad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t believe the government sees this as a problem,\u201d Manuel said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/242907\/what-nurses-teachers-and-lawyers-want-to-earn-in-2018-and-how-much-government-is-offering\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What nurses, teachers and lawyers earn right now \u2013 and how much more government is offering<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skilled teachers are leaving South Africa to pursue careers in Abu Dhabi, according to a report in the Sunday Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":102841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-274415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274415"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274421,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274415\/revisions\/274421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}