Experts’ mantra to cut TU burden
Transfer PCL teachers to secondary schools
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KATHMANDU, SEP 21 - The Tribhuvan University’s decision to phase out Proficiency Certificate Level (PCL), lecturers teaching at the intermediate level has become a millstone around its neck. Education experts have been racking their brains to kill two birds with one stone.
One alternative that has become a matter of table talk lately is transferring them to community higher secondary schools.
Their concern comes in view of the left-in-the-lurch around 3,000 lecturers of Tribhuvan University among 8,000 lecturers hired only to teach in PCL. Whether the university would provide them salary and what their future will be is haunting these three 3,000 teachers.
According to the Higher Secondary Education Board (HSEB), the posts of some 8,500 teachers are lying vacant in nearly 1,700
higher secondary schools across the country.
If each community school hires at least two PCL lecturers, around 3,400 would get jobs.
“The PCL teachers could have been easily transferred to community schools had the TU officials and the Ministry of Education agreed on this the day both sides
reached an agreement two years ago,” said educationist and former TU
Vice-Chancellor Kedar Bhakta Mathema. “This can be done even now. But for this, the university has to do to a lot.”
Educationist Bidhya Nath Koirala agreed with Mathema’s view.
TU and the ministry should immediately strike an agreement to use
the university’s human resources and infrastructure until the infrastructure of higher secondary schools is improved, he said.
“If both the sides reach an agreement to this effect the university, teachers and community schools would benefit and there would be no problem,” he added.
TU, however, says the option floated by educationists is very tough.
“The government can deploy TU teachers for some years, but the process is not such easy,” said TU Vice-Chancellor Madhav Sharma.
Despite strong protests by students affiliated to several unions against TU’s plan to phase out PCL, the university finally phased out PCL from this year’s academic session starting July-August as per the decision of Tribhuvan Uni-versity Academic Council in 2009.
Posted on: 2010-09-21 09:30
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