Higher secondary faculty academics upset with unfair share in promotion to submit of principals
2 min read Express News Service
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Higher Secondary Directorate’s advice to the federal government, to discontinue with the follow of keeping apart 33% of the upper secondary principal vacancies as promotion posts for college headmasters,nonetheless stays on paper. The motive for the advice in July 2018 was a Kerala Administrative Tribunal (KAT) verdict of 2017 to this impact and in addition the supply of ample variety of eligible academics from the upper secondary part for the principal posts. But the federal government has turned a blind eye to advice allegedly because of stress from varied faculty academics’ associations.
In 2001, when the upper secondary sector was nonetheless in a nascent stage, particular guidelines had been framed which stipulated that one-third of principal appointments must be via promotion of headmasters from faculties. The norm was launched because the eligibility standards for principal submit was 12 years’ instructing expertise and there weren’t sufficient larger secondary academics who fulfilled that standards.
“HSST teachers have already exceeded the 12 years’ service norm. Since sufficient number of teachers are now available in the higher secondary section, the special rules should be amended and the quota for school headmasters should be scrapped,” stated the advice despatched by the HSE Directorate.Though solely one-third of the principal posts are set aside for headmasters, statistics obtainable with TNIE present, they’ve occupied majority of those posts in some topics. “For instance, while 102 mathematics HSST teachers retired over the past four years, 72 of these vacancies were filled through HM promotion. Only 26 HSST teachers were promoted to the principal post during this period,” stated a supply.
The anomaly occurred as HM promotions aren’t subject-based. “Since a large number of headmasters have obtained PG in mathematics through distance education, the norm of 2:1 could not be followed for that subject,” admitted a senior official of the General Education Department. The official stated a lot of headmasters with science background have obtained PG in arithmetic in correspondence mode from universities in Tamil Nadu and had utilized for promotion.
It can also be reliably learnt that not one of the 40 vacancies of HSST arithmetic academics, that had been reported in 2020, had been crammed. This, at a time when 177 HSST junior academics are in service and 65 HSST senior posts are mendacity vacant in arithmetic. According to sources, these posts have been stored unfilled for HM promotions which are due quickly.
