(Posted 10th June 2025)
One cannot build a strong education system while sidelining Seychellois teachers. Across the country, qualified local educators are being overlooked, underpaid, and pushed out of classrooms — while expatriates are brought in to replace them, at higher salaries and with better benefits.
Seychellois teachers understand their students, our culture, and the realities they face. Yet many have been forced into other jobs because the profession no longer offers dignity or recognition. If one offered local teachers the same pay and incentives given to expatriates, many would return — and student outcomes would improve.
This isn’t just about fairness. It’s about effectiveness. A system that fails to invest in its own people is a system set up to collapse.
Too often, expatriates are holding posts that could be filled by capable Seychellois. Meanwhile, discipline problems grow, and students struggle to learn from teachers they sometimes can’t even understand.
Seychelles is becoming a country where teachers are no longer respected — and that’s a dangerous path. Every president, doctor, and leader once sat in a classroom.
Teachers shape nations. Yet in ours, they are being treated as expendable.
This must be reversed!
What is required now is:
Raise teachers’ pay.
Recognise and reward local talent.
Restore dignity to the classroom.
If one wants responsible, educated citizens tomorrow, one must empower Seychellois teachers today.
