Principals' promotions before end of the year

THE Education Ministry has drawn urgent attention towards the solution of all teacher problems including the granting of promotions to principals held up over the years to ensure job satisfaction to members of the teaching service who fashion, the lives of the future generation.

The Ministry in a release said measures taken in this regard have been spelt out in circular number 2005/14 issued by it and all provincial education authorities have been instructed to ensure that all promotions are granted and other teacher problems are solved within three months.

The release said the Principals Service represented a majority membership in the Education Process. According to the Principals Service Minute, there are 2,485 officers in Grade One and 5,555 officers in Grade 2-1 and 3,474 officers in Grade 2-2 making a total of 16,507 in the teaching service.

Despite this statistical data, the actual number in each grade is much less because promotions had not been effected properly during the past several years. As a result, those officers had been stagnating in the same grade for many years without any job satisfaction.

Therefore the Ministry has now drawn urgent attention towards solving all unresolved teacher problems and granting promotions in the Principals Service without delay.

These promotions will be granted according to the stipulations of the Sri Lanka Principals Service Minute.

The entire problem is due to be completed before December 31 this year.