Abstract—Shortage of teachers, particularly technology
teachers is of great concern in the country. In order to increase
the supply side the department of education has expanded
funding for student teachers who pursue technology Teacher
Programme and other scarce skills. The universities should
increase the recruitment strategies to students in the TTE
programme. The purpose of this study was to identify effective
recruitment techniques that attract students to the technology
education teaching profession. Convenience and purposive
sampling method was used to obtain 30 new TTE students to
participate in the study. Questionnaire and interviews were
used to collect data. From the findings, it is clear that financial
injection is the main pillar to attract student teachers into the
TTE program in the Eastern Cape University. It is
recommended that the Eastern Cape Province University
intensify recruitment strategy to attract students into the TTE
program because funding is available so that technology
teachers are increased throughout the province and the
country.
Index Terms—Shortage, technology teacher programme,
Eastern Cape university.
The authors are with the Tshwane University of Technology, Gauteng
Province, South Africa (e-mail: MakgatoM@tut.ac.za).
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Cite: Moses Makgato and Sammy Khoza, " Shortage of Teachers and Recruitment of Technology
Teachers at the University in Eastern Cape Province, South
Africa," International Journal of Social Science and Humanity vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 224-226, 2015.