More teachers for Central, NWP schools

Dharma Sri ABEYRATNE

Moves are under way to recruit 364 graduate teachers by the Ministry of Education aiming to overcome the teacher shortage in Central and Northwestern Provinces.

Under this scheme, the Education Ministry has planned to conduct interviews shortly based on the result of competitive examination held in 2007 for recruiting graduate teachers.

Accordingly, 238 graduate teachers will be recruited to the Central Province while 126 will be recruited to the Northwestern Province. Of the 364 teachers, 103 are Sinhala medium graduate teachers and 164 are from the Tamil medium while 97 are English medium teachers.

Discontinuing the prevailing practice, the Education Ministry is scheduled to implement a new mechanism when recruiting these teachers. With the implementation of this mechanism, teachers will be recruited through subject and school based system. According to the scheme the teachers need no transfers since they reside close to the particular school to which they have been selected.

Implementing this scheme will result in students having an uninterrupted teaching program as the teacher who reside close to the school.