Higher Secondary colleges proceed to be disadvantaged of everlasting lecturers in Kerala

Express News Service
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: After dragging its toes for the previous a few years, the federal government has sanctioned 158 educating and 36 non-teaching posts in aided larger secondary colleges the place new batches have been allotted in 2014-15. But a few of these colleges will proceed to be disadvantaged of everlasting lecturers, because of the authorities’s insistence that every batch ought to have a minimal of fifty college students for 3 consecutive years.

Due to the norm, educating posts have been denied in colleges the place the variety of college students in a batch dropped by only one or two from the decrease restrict of fifty in any one of many three consecutive years, starting 2017-18. This, regardless of the Higher Secondary Special Rules stipulating that the minimal energy of a batch is 25.

“Only 27 of the 32 aided schools, where batches were sanctioned in 2014-15, will benefit from the recent government order. Besides, there is no clarity on teaching posts for 44 batches that were sanctioned in 2015-16,” mentioned a consultant of the Non-Approved HSS Teachers.

Due to the federal government’s reluctance in sanctioning posts, the school positions for the brand new batches have been stuffed on every day wage foundation by the varsity administration. This had raised issues over the standard of instruction prompting many mother and father to shift their kids to different colleges.

“Even after the so-called focus on improving the general education sector, the government has turned a blind eye to 76 higher secondary batches, both in government and aided sector, that has not had a permanent faculty for the past many years,” mentioned S Manoj of Aided Higher Secondary Teachers Association.

Higher Secondary lecturers have urged the federal government to withdraw the ‘unreasonable’ norm and sanction everlasting educating posts in all batches with a minimal energy of 40 college students for 3 consecutive years.

Meanwhile, the federal government has caught to the rule e-book, taking into consideration the monetary dedication it could need to incur if everlasting posts are sanctioned. “Even during the creation of new batches, the government had clarified that minimum batch strength should be continuously maintained. The new posts are in accordance with that norm,” mentioned a senior official of the General Education Department.

New posts created for batches sanctioned in 2014-15HSST Junior – 67HSST – 63Upgradation – 21Principal – 7Lab Assistant – 36Total – 194