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View(s):The Government is interfering in the affairs of the Transfer Board and cancelling transfers given out to teachers, The Ceylon Teachers Union (CTU) said last week.
CTU General Secretary Joseph Stalin said several transfers issued by the Transfer Board had been revoked by the Education Ministry in the recent past.
He said teachers in national schools had been re-directed to continue to serve in the schools they had served for over five years.
The Transfer Board handed out over 7000 transfers to teachers and principals in the last two years, after a lapse of several years. Those who had served over eight years in a school had been posted to other schools.
However it had been found that some teachers and principals in popular national schools and those serving in schools close to their homes, had got their transfers revoked. They were asked to serve in the same schools.
This practice is being followed in popular provincial schools as well.
Mr Stalin said this is depriving teachers and students of the need for a change. He said this is unfair because it also deprived teachers and principals of the chance to serve in popular schools.