According to the South African Government News Agency SAnews.gov.za, the aim is to minimise the turnaround times experienced in filling vacant teaching posts in schools.

All professionally qualified South African teachers are invited to register with the database, which will keep details of qualified educators looking for employment in public schools.

Qualified educators should download the form, available on the department's website, complete it, attach certified copies of their qualification(s) and academic record(s), and post or hand deliver it to the department.

Accessible from anywhere in the country, the database will give principals and School Governing Bodies (SGBs) the ability to quickly identify appropriately qualified teachers who meet the criteria for the post they are trying to fill.

“The Database is one of the measures employed by the department in response to delays experienced in deploying temporary teachers to vacant posts,” the department said in a statement.