By A Staff Reporter
Kathmandu, Feb. 8: Education authorities on Sunday stressed the need for recruiting teachers having delivery skills along with knowledge to ensure quality education in schools across the country.
They said that the written examination alone could not be a tool to select quality teachers.
Speaking at a function organised on the occasion of establishment day of the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) today, they stated that until now the commission was selecting teachers based on their performance in written examinations but they should be recruited from their performance ability.
Gopinath Mainali, education secretary, said as teaching is a lively art and the written examinations alone could not be the tool of merit test.
In another context, Mainali said the Ministry was not in mentality of interfering in the work of the TSC so that it could function independently.
Baburam Thapa, chairman of Teacher’s Federation, said that the teachers had felt the government interfere in the TSC work.
“The TSC has to be established as an autonomous body rather than a unit of the Ministry of Education Science and Technology,” Thapa said.
Baikuntha Aryal, director general of the Center for Education and Human Resource Development (CEHRD), said it was noticed that only a few numbers of candidates looked qualified for teachers’ job in many examinations of teachers taken in the past, and there was a need to relate the TSC course with university courses.
Minister for Education Science and Technology Krishna Gopal Shrestha hoped that the TSC would maintain its purity and impartiality even in future.
He said he was positive to resolve all problems of education sector. Therefore, he urged the stakeholders to provide the needed support.
The TSC is without officials for four months. In lack of officials, it has been unable to announce new vacancies of teachers and it has also been facing many problems in policy decision, Dinesh Kumar Shrestha, acting administrative head of the commission, said.
Shrestha asked the government to appoint officials at the TSC as soon as possible to create a working environment.