Government will double the number of teachers it is training and the failure by the economy to absorb them at the moment is
only temporary, a Cabinet Minister has said.

Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Minister Professor
Amon Murwira told Senate yesterday that the failure by the economy to employ teachers was a temporary setback.

Minister Murwira said this while responding to Bulawayo Metropolitan Senator, Gideon
Shoko (MDC Alliance), during the Question and Answer session.
Senator Shoko had asked him the sense behind the continued training of teachers

when there were no jobs- state media