Transfer of teachers from Jan, some schools have surplus of teachers
View(s):The Education Ministry is preparing to implement a transfer scheme for teachers from January following an assessment of teacher requirements and overstaffing in schools.
An estimated 4,500 teachers are likely to be transferred to new schools following revelations that they have been stationed in the same schools for several years.
Education Ministry investigations have so far revealed that some of the teachers currently serving in schools in urban areas have been overstaying their period in the same school for several years.
Accordingly, they have been identified as teachers who would be transferred out of the schools first.
With the implementation of the transfer scheme, the Education Ministry is also looking at ways of balancing the issue of shortage of teachers in schools.
Current estimates show that there is a shortage of 45,000 teachers across the country.
However, Education Ministry officials believe that with the implementation of a proper transfer policy they would be able to overcome some of the issues, a senior official said.
He said that though on record a shortage is shown, in reality it is an issue of the non-use of resources in the proper manner as some of the schools are currently overstaffed with additional teachers for the same subject while some schools were not having a single teacher for the same subject.
The assessments are being made to decide on the recruitment scheme to be implemented.
Several proposed recruitment drives of teachers were held up this year as court action was filed against the plan to recruit teachers.
The number of teachers to be recruited will be identified according to each subject’s requirement and thereafter Cabinet approval will be sought.
The official said that under the current system there is no proper identification system to ascertain the actual requirement of teachers.
(DWI)
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