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N,E schools are headless bodies
Principal appointments scheduled for 2012 are yet to be finalized, especially in the Northern and Eastern Provinces, the Ceylon Teachers Unions (CTU) stressed.
According to a circular endorsed on October 2, 2000, Principals were appointed for Principal services Grade 2-II, and 1,700 appointees for Grade 3, under Principal services, CTU President Joseph Stalin said.
“Most of the Principal appointees of 2012 in the Northern and Eastern Province are still serving as teachers” he said.
He added that there are a number of schools functioning in the Northern and Eastern Provinces under ‘Performing Principals’ (temporary appointees), for which Graded Principals can be appointed from the 2012 circular. “Performing Principals are political appointees,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Northern Province Education Director N. Selvarajah told the Sunday Times that the authorities are ready to give placements for any Principal appointee, butt most of these appointees are refusing to accept the appointments given to them by the Provincial authority.
While the Eastern Province Education Director M.P.A. Nizam said the appointments for 2012 are a mess, and the placement issue will be sorted by January next year. “We have had discussions with the higher authorities to sort out the appointment for Graded and Performing Principals,” he said.
- Mirudhula Thambiah
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