MoE to regularise Principals’ transfers; curb overstaying
View(s):The Ministry of Education () is to implement stringent measures to transfer principals of National schools who have been serving more than 10 years in the same school.
To ensure regular transfers, the MoE will gazette the schools whose principals have served over 10 years, declaring their positions vacant.
The move will enable the Govt. to consider those who have passed the Sri Lanka Education Administrative Services (SLEAS) exam, to be appointed to the vacant positions.
Some 800 persons who completed the SLEAS exam and some 200 of them who have completed foreign training, will be eligible to apply for positions falling vacant. Education Minister Akila Viraj Kariywasam told Education Times that the objective was to provide opportunities for all those who have qualified, to serve as principals in national schools.
“Some principals have been serving for prolonged periods at the same school. Therefore, the new scheme will prevent an abuse of the system,” he said. He said the next step would be to regularise the principal appointments in the Provincial schools as well, though there were obstacles at the Provincial level to regularise the appointments.
He said though they recruited 3,900 teachers for principal appointments at Provincial level, they were able to grant only 500 appointments as there were protests.
- Damith Wickremasekara