DepEd to hire 5,000 non-teaching personnel in 2023

The Department of Education (DepEd) will hire 5,000 non-teaching personnel next year to perform administrative tasks passed to public school teachers over the years.

DepEd spokesperson Michael Poa on Wednesday said this is the first time their agency will employ thousands of administrative staff in the bid to reduce the workload of teachers.

“Ideally, we will assign one administrative staff in each school, but it cannot be done in a year. We have to go through the application process,” Poa told reporters during a dialogue with key school officials here.

Poa said teachers are overworked not because of the teaching load, but because of administrative tasks.

Among these is the monitoring of compliance of schoolchildren whose families are receiving cash assistance under the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps).

“The 4Ps law’s implementing rules and regulation says the DepEd will participate in 4Ps, but it doesn’t mean that teachers will do it. We asked our field offices to coordinate with our counterparts in the Department of Social Welfare and Development,” Poa added.

As part of its effort to reduce the workload, the education department will launch a work-balancing tool designed to assess the working hours of teachers and how efficiently these are spent.

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Source: pna.gov.ph