Lecturers appointments in federal government model colleges

Supreme Court stopped fresh appointment of lecturers in model colleges
Islamabad, Sep 30: A three-member bench of the Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday directed Ministry of Education not to make fresh appointment of lecturers in federal government (FG) model colleges.

The SC bench comprising Justice Sardar Muhammad Raza Khan, Justice Raja Fayyaz Ahmed and Justice Khilji Arif Hussain was hearing an appeal filed by 117 ad hoc and daily-wage lecturers serving in various colleges of the federal capital against an advertisement of the ministry for fresh recruitment of lecturers.

The court observed that hundreds of teachers were serving in various colleges of the federal capital on ad hoc or daily-wages for years and instead of regularising their services, the ministry was bent upon making fresh appointments, which was discriminatory.

The court directed the Education Ministry and Attorney General of Pakistan (AGP) to submit a detailed reply within 15 days that why daily-wages lecturers were not regularised on the orders of high court.

Earlier on June 20, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) had issued a stay order against fresh recruitments in Islamabad model colleges by Ministry of Education and Federal Public Service Commission (FPSC).

The representatives of daily-wage teachers had filed a petition against non-regularization of their services by the ministry despite the fact that they were working for many years. The court had ordered the Education Secretary, Director General Federal Directorate of Education and FPSC not to recruit any fresh lecturer against the advertised posts until further orders.

The counsel for the petitioners had presented three advertisements published in leading newspapers for the posts of lecturers and junior lady teachers for Islamabad model colleges.

Earlier in April 2008, the court had directed the ministry to consider the regularisation of teachers working on daily wage basis and the ministry had assured the court that those teachers would be appointed whenever recruitment process started.

The petitioners had stated that the advertisement of 250 posts for the recruitment of lecturers in Islamabad model colleges and announcement of date for interviews by the FPSC on June 29 was in violation of the court orders. After the abolition of IHC, they moved the SC.

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Teachers vow not to allow ineligible teams inspect colleges
Rawalpindi: College teachers vowed on Tuesday not to allow 'ineligible and ineffectual' monitoring teams to check their performance by paying surprise visits to educational institutions.

They said they would unanimously pass a condemning resolution against the monitoring teams and send it to Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Shahbaz Sharif, Chief Secretary Javed Mehmood and Secretary Education.

This decision was made in a meeting, chaired by Punjab Professors and Lecturers Association (PPLA) City President Prof Muhammad Ilyas Qurashi.

During the meeting, college teachers were said they were astonished as to why the Punjab government had constituted the monitoring teams comprising inexpert and unqualified officers.

"It will not improve performance of college teachers but surely build unnecessary pressure on them, which will spoil their teaching skills and abilities," they said.

Prof Ilyas Qurashi said the Education Department had already a sturdy monitoring system comprising five different officials including principals and vice principals of colleges, district officer (DO), colleges, deputy district officers and divisional director, colleges, to keep an eye on teachers.

He said monitoring of performance of college teachers thorough these teams actually indicated the distrust that the Punjab government had in college principals, vice principal and DOs. Daily times

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Girls complained about shortage of teachers
Rawalpindi: Students of the Government Viqar-un-Nisa College for Girls have complained about the shortage of English teachers, as more than seven sections of different classes were without any English teacher.

According to college sources, students of five sections of second-year and two sections of first-year don't have any teacher for English.

A second-year student said: "Almost one month has passed since the college opened after summer vacation, but so far the college administration has not been able to hire English teachers for various classes." She said that the majority of students spend their time of English period either in cafeteria or playing.

A first-year student said: "We haven't started studying English and it will become very difficult for us if the situation prevails."

The mother of a student said: "We requested the principal to provide English teachers to students, but over a month has passed and no new teacher has been appointed yet."

Government Viqar-Un-Nisa College for Girls Principal Bilqees Akhtar said: "I have asked the director colleges to grant permission for recruiting new teachers." She admitted to the fact that many sections of the college were without English teachers. According to her, some internee teachers were trying to fill in the gap temporarily. However, she was confident that the matter would be resolved soon.

Director Colleges Dr. Muhammad Ashraf said: "The orders for new recruitments are being issued from the secretary's office. As soon as we receive the orders, we will recruit teachers on vacant posts."

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Chinese photo exhibition at IIU
Islamabad: The Chinese Muslim Students Union of International Islamic University, (IIU) will hold a photo exhibition 'Glorious China' here today (September 30).

Chinese Ambassador Luo Zhaohui would be chief guest at Sector H-10 campus of the university. Meanwhile, the female campus of the university will hold a seminar on breast cancer on September 30, said a statement issued here Tuesday.

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Regularisation of teachers opposed
Peshawar: Threatening to launch a protest movement, the Muttahida Mahaz-e-Asatiza Tuesday urged the government to reverse the decision to regularise the services of the ad-hoc teachers.

Addressing a press conference, Chairman of the Muttahida Mahaz-e-Asatiza, Haji Abdul Manan Khan, said the teacher community of the province had already been deprived of their rights. "Now by regularising the services of contract employees, the government has dealt another blow to the teachers," he added.

The first protest, he said, would be held outside the Government High School Mardan on October 8. He said they had presented a charter of demand and instead of accepting their demands, the government appointed 2,073 teachers without any test and interview.

He claimed that over 100,000 teachers had suffered due to what he called the wrong policy of the government and demanded of the government to appoint the teachers through old criteria of the Provincial Pubic Service Commission. The news

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