Kerala high school teachers lack quality

Thiruvananthapuram: Only 25 percent of the teachers in teacher’s bank have qualification for appointments to higher secondary schools.

The decision was to fill teacher’s appointments in Government schools in the newly sanctioned higher secondary schools from among teachers included in the teacher’s bank. Teacher’s bank was part of the package for primary and high school teachers announced in June 1, 2011, by the state  to regularize 3, 389 teachers in government aided schools in the state who became excess following the fall in the enrollment of students.

Though there was enough number of teachers with qualifications for teaching in plus two classed among regular teachers of high schools in the state there were practical difficulties in redeploying them. Apart from that such a redeployment process would be time consuming, sources said.

Sources said that the appointment of teachers to these schools during the subsequent years would also become problematic. It may be recalled that teachers appointed in 550 higher secondary batches in August 2011 had to forego their salaries from 2011 to 2013.

The Government had sanctioned 368 Plus Two batches in aided schools and 182 batches in government schools.  Directorate of Higher Secondary Education had sanctioned these teaching posts in aided schools received only sanction from the government and that too only in July, 2013.  This was following the opposition from the finance department.