the benefit expatriate teachers can bring is not only to teach in the classroom but also to coach and train local teachers through onthejob training and organisation of workshops however shortterm measures raise concerns about their impact on the quality of teaching and learning many countries including ethiopia have chosen to recruit large numbers of teachers on a contract basis the idea is to keep the wage bill down while increasing access to education many of the new recruits however are not fully trained as described above in paragraph according to the government compared with regular civil service teachers contract teachers often have i relatively lower academic credentials ii uncertain or no career prospects and iii lower salaries and fewer benefits