The government on Monday decided to create a record 4000 new vacancies of teachers at the Higher Secondary Level.

The Ministry of Education (MoE) and Higher Secondary School Teachers Association (HISTAN) have reached an agreement to create the new vacancies. The teachers had earlier been demanding with the Ministry that more new vacancies should be created at the higher secondary level so that the temporary teachers could be given permanent status.

As per the agreement, the teachers working as full time will get registration at District Education Office which make them eligible for the equal facility at par with other secondary level second-class teachers.

If the higher secondary have not any full time teachers the schools will select the teachers from the temporary rooster on the basis of seniority. The Department of Education will be monitoring the upgradation process.

The agreement further explained that the 50 per cent of recruitment of teachers would be made through internal competition and 50 per cent through external competition.

Diwakar Dungel, joint secretary of Ministry, and Deepak Subedi, chairman of the HISTAN, signed the agreement.

Janardan Nepal, acting secretary of the Ministry, said that the Ministry will implement the agreement even though it had been running out of time.

However, stakeholders of education have expressed their suspicion over the implementation of the agreement as the Ministry in the past had failed to implement various agreements made with different groups.

source:risingnepal,19 March 2012