Our economy needs well-qualified personnel

Editor, I wish to respond to a story which appeared in The Sunday Times, April 15, in which the Ministry of Health and the national nursing council said they were scrutinising academic papers for nurses seeking employment in the county.This, they said, is part of a broad campaign aimed at stamping out forged academic transcripts in the sector.It’s unfortunate that some nurses can lie about their academic credentials through use of counterfeit documents to get jobs.My advice is that the ministry always vets people’s qualification before employing them.It’s obvious that some public institutions have not been vigilant enough to ascertain unauthentic academic papers during the recruitment process, thus allowing dishonest individuals to land sensitive jobs.It is wrong to recruit people before a thorough vetting exercise. Some of the applicants present foreign academic documents, and thus it takes a carefully designed screening process, to vet the. It may not be a simple task but I believe it’s always possible to find out whether they studied from accredited institutions of higher learning or not, and whether the documents submitted are genuine.Our economy needs well-qualified personnel if it is to attain the set development targets.Stella TetaKigali

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Our economy needs well-qualified personnel