Government Primary schools
Recruitment of 20,000 teachers on the cards
DEEPAK ACHARJEE
After three years of restriction on the recruitment of primary school teachers, the government is going to appoint at least 20,000 teachers from next month to ensure quality education at the primary level. The recruitment will be part of 129,105 posts of teacher created for 25,841 schools and will be in three phases, sources in the primary and mass education ministry told The Independent.
The Directorate of Primary Education has completed the process of recruiting teachers following the recent withdrawal of restriction by the court, sources in the ministry said.
Primary and Mass Education Minister Mostafizur Rahman Fizar told The Independent that they are going to publish an advertisement on recruitment in November to appoint 20,000 teachers for government primary schools.
We couldnt recruit teachers from 2014 due to the court restriction. But the court recently withdrew the restriction, paving the way for fresh recruitment. As we could not go for fresh recruitment, we had to give the charge of acting headmasters to 21,000 senior teachers, he said.
A senior official of the ministry told this correspondent that they have created a total of 129,105 posts of teacher for appointing them in 25,841 schools in three phases.
It has become inevitable for us to go for large-scale recruitment as quality primary education was being hampered seriously due to the
three-year restriction. As there is no bar now, well go for the recruitment in three phases, he said.
Sources said about 60,000 posts of teacher, including 16,603 posts of headmaster, are vacant in primary schools. Of the 16,603 posts of headmaster, 8,348 are in government primary schools and 8,255 in nationalised primary schools.
More than 26,000 primary schools, which were run by private management, have recently been brought under the governments pay scale. They are now called nationalised primary schools.
A total of 44,095 posts of assistant teachers
are vacant23,669 in government primary schools and 20,426 in nationalised schools.
According to the Primary Education Development Program III of the World Bank, primary enrolment and completion rates have reached 97.9 per cent and 79.6 per cent, respectively.
Over 127,000 schools received more than 110 million textbooks within the first month of the school year last year. About 22,444 additional classrooms have been constructed in remote and underprivileged areas to reduce overcrowding in schools. Currently, there are 322,766 teachers for 21,932,638 students in 63,601 government primary schools. So far, the government has recruited 130,100 teachers for government primary schools.
