Punjab contract lecturers's services regularisation
653 lecturers regularised, 237 in waiting
Lahore, Aug 12: The Punjab higher education department has regularised the
services of 653 contract lecturers, while the department is working actively to
complete the record of remaining 237 lecturers for their regularisation in due
course. These 890 contract lecturers had completed their first five-year
term and qualified for regularisation as per announcement made by Chief Minister
Shahbaz Sharif. This was announced at a news conference jointly
addressed by excise and taxation minister Mujtaba Shujaur Rehman, holding the
additional charge of education ministry, and higher education acting-secretary
Ahad Khan Cheema at Darbar Hall, Punjab Civil Secretariat on Wednesday.
The Punjab higher education department is also moving a case to the
finance department to remove disparity of the sanctioned posts under the
four-tier formula. Currently, the department has 10,183 sanctioned posts of
lecturers, 6,209 posts of assistant professors, 1,978 posts of associate
professors and 152 posts of professors. Of these 18,522 posts, the
department has around 13,000 college teachers on its strength, while over 5,000
posts are lying vacant. Cheema said the department had conducted a
detailed exercise of collecting and assessing annual confidential reports (ACRs)
and results in boards and university examinations so that only those lecturers
whose performance remained satisfactory could be regularised. When asked
as to how the contract lecturers got their five-year contract renewed, if their
performance was not satisfactory, the secretary said there was no proper system
in place to monitor and evaluate their performance. He said the department could
not even find some contract lecturers' ACRs during the last two months. "It
seemed that there was no culture of preparing ACRs of contract lecturers," he
added. With regard to promotion aspects of regular college teachers, the
education minister said the formalisation of four-tier formula would create some
994 posts for lecturers' promotion as assistant professors, 789 posts for
promotion as associate professors and 58 posts for promotion as professors.
Minister Mujtaba said the chief minister had also formally approved
various decisions, which he had taken after a meeting with schools and colleges
teachers on June 18. He said the chief minister had approved that around 2,000
teachers would be selected every year on the basis of their all round
performance and they would be awarded with bonus allowance of Rs50,000 in cash.
In another scheme, the best teachers would be awarded with a five-marla plot.
The policy of selecting a five-marla plot would be determined shortly, he added.
To another question, the acting-secretary said the best 2,000 teachers
would be selected this year on the basis of their performance. He said teachers'
performance would be evaluated on the basis of their workload, students'
results, role in administration or in administrative committees, role in
promoting co-curricular activities, respective teachers' personal development
with regard to participating in seminars, workshops, trainings, study of their
relevant subjects as well as other subjects etc. The teachers' performance would
be assessed through multiple sources, including self-assessment, peer
assessment, students' evaluation and principals' report. The minister
said the members of the committee formed by the chief minister also decided that
future promotions of college teachers would be linked with their performance.
However, the department would consider ground realities while assessing
performance of teachers serving in urban colleges and far flung areas, colleges
have intake of good students and poor students, respectively.
Your Comments
"its true that lecturers have been regularized but many are not regularized, especially those who were on study leave to do PhD or M Phil, as they were on study leave without pay, therefore leave period is not considered in service. its utter disappointment for those lecturers who have been struggling to enhance their qualification. its a lesson for them that never ever again even think of higher education"
Name: imran
Email: imghuman@hotmail.com
City, Country: Pakistan
"MOST OF THE LECTURERS ARE NOT REGULARIZED BECAUSE OF NO RESULTS INCLUDING THOSE WHO HAVE EVEN NO CLASS OF THEIR RESPECTIVE SUBJECTS.SO IF THEIR IS NO CLASS THEN HOW ThY CAN PRODUCE RESULTS AS THERE ARE MANY COLLEGES IN PUNJAB WHICH ARE LOCATED AT REMOTE AREAS,AND FAR FLUNG FROM CITIES , GOVT FIRSTLY APPOINTED THEM IN SO MUCH DIFFICULTS AREAS ,OBJECT ON THEIR TRANSFER APPLICATIONS BEING SINGLE ONE AND NOW THEY HAVE ALSO DROPED THEM FROM REGULARIZATION NOTIFICATION. SO WE REQUEST THE HIGHER AUTHORITIES TO RECONSIDER THE CASE AND MAKE SOME PLEASURE FOR THEM. THANKS. "
Name: ASIF
Email: dilsa_diltak84@yahoo.com
City, Country: rawalpindi, Pakistan
"i want to get notification regarding M phil allowance email that plz"
Name: tahir
Email: tahirkhalilmaan@yahoo.com
City, Country: faisalabad , pakistan
"University of Agriculture has awarded me Ph.D degree in botany. I am working as EST teacher at Govt. H/S Karor.Layyah. Please tell me how much PhD allowance at School level.If you have notification please send me if possible."
Name: DR. IQBAL HUSSAIN
Email: iqbalbotanist1@yahoo.com
City, Country: Layyah, pakistan
"please grant hard area allowance to College Librarian also and give them equal status to college lecturers,because they have also taught to students as well as Librarianship. They also be given rebate in income tax as college lecturer"
Name: Ashfaq Rashid
Email: ashfaq70@live.com
City, Country: Bahawalpur,Pakistan
"i want to get notification regarding M phil allowance email that plz"
Name: M.Akram
Email: makram_69@yahoo.com
City, Country: Gujrat, Pakistan
"most of the people have not been regulerized because they are working in remot areas where stuff of the students is poor and proper facalities r not available.I ask how they form the policy of regulerization without considering these aspects.Another aspect is that no of students in aclass r not cosiderd.for example i had three students(remot area) inclass 2 pass and only one failed causing below board result.while there is rule that at least there should be 05 students to consider the result.I ask why this aspect was not considerd?"
Name: mzia
Email: mziach@hotmail.com
City, Country:pakistan
"punjab govt nay professors and lecturer ko ******* our ****** bana dya hay"
Name: ali
Email: dreemsseety@yahoo.com
City, Country:lahore
"I am a Lecturer (Botany) on contract basis with one year service. Luckily, I have a fully funded scholarship offer abroad for PhD studies.But So for I have known, there is no provision of study leave to the contract lecturers. There are a meager number of PhD qualified teachers in Punjab Higher Education sector. Off course it is the policy makers who do not care for these aspects. Any how If some one has information about that (some notification or any example), please contact me and share with me."
Name: Abdur Rehman
Email: rehman138@gmail.com
City, Country:Faisalabad, Pakistan
"It has been reported that Puinjab Agriculture Department has completed the cases for regularizing the contract employees BS 16 and above as per Nov 2010 notification. The Higher Education Deptt. has still not invited the cases and has taken no initiatives in this regard."
Name: abdullah
Email:mabdullah138@gmail.com
City, Country:Pakistan
"I am doing m.phil leading to Phd in mass comm. on study leave. I want notification regarding full pay during study leave for Mphil. Can you help me."
Name: Muhammad ismail
Email: ismailsgd@gmail.com
City, Country: Sargodha, Pakistan
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Poor Result
Lahore: The higher education acting-secretary said the department had conducted
an exercise and found that 26 colleges produced less than 10 per cent results
including those which showed zero per cent results in BA/BSc annual examination
2009. Cheema said the department had recently moved a summary to the chief
minister for taking action against the respective principals for showing poor
results. He said the department had earlier sought explanation from the
principals of 26 identified colleges, including two in Lahore. "After collecting
their responses, the summary has been sent to the chief minister for taking
action against the delinquent principals," he said.
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Incentives
Lahore: The minister said the education department had identified 124 colleges in the
province, where principals would be offered additional Rs3,000 hard area
allowance for working in far-off areas. In case of new scheme, Mujtaba
said the chief minister had approved enhancing the honorarium of Honorary
Teaching Assistants (HTAs) from Rs8,000 to Rs10,000 per month. The HTAs would
also be given five additional marks, if they would compete for the posts
advertised through the Punjab Public Service Commission. The department
had also enhanced the PhD allowance of arts and linguistics' teachers from
Rs3,000 to Rs5,000 per month, while the M.Phil allowance would be given to
teachers at the rate of 50 per cent of PhD allowance in respective subjects. Dawn
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A-level equivalence
Lahore: Answering another question, the higher education
acting-secretary said the A level curricula lacked content and they could not be
given more marks. He said the department was working that how the indigenous
FA/FSc and A level exams could be synchronised. Cheema said the
department did not receive any thing that the Inter-Boards Committee of Chairmen
(IBCC) had approved that the proposed A+ grade to be given by the Cambridge
International Examinations (CIE) would be equalised at 90 per cent of the total
marks of the intermediate examination. Dawn
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Matriculation high-achievers to hoist flags
Lahore: Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Shahbaz Sharif has decided that
students who obtained high marks in the Matriculation examinations will hoist
national flags in their districts on Independence Day, as part of the
celebrations that are being held at district offices throughout the province.
Ministers, senators, members of the assembly and government officers will
participate in these celebrations on the CM's instructions. The Punjab
government has directed all district coordination officers (DCOs) to contact
students who obtained the highest marks in their districts and ensure that they
participate in the Independence Day celebrations. The DCOs have also been asked
to invite these students' parents to these ceremonies. Daily times
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PhDs awarded
Lahore: The Punjab University has awarded PhD degrees to Sabika Firasat,
Tahira Raana and Tajammal Hussain. According to a press release issued
here on Wednesday, Sabika Firasat D/o Malik Jaffar Hussain has been awarded PhD
degree in Molecular Biology after approval of her research thesis entitled
ëGenetic Basis of Glaucoma in Pakistani Families'. She completed the
thesis under the supervision of Punjab University National Centre of Excellence
in Molecular Biology (CEMB) adjunct assistant professor Dr Saima Riazuddin,
while Prof Dr Tayyab Husnain was her co-supervisor. Tahira Raana D/o
Muhammad Fazil Qureshi has been awarded PhD degree in Home Economics after
approval of her research thesis entitled ëEcological Perspective: Effects of Air
and Water Pollution on the Cognitive Functioning of Children'. She
completed her thesis under the supervision of College of Home Economics,
Gulberg, Lahore, principal Prof Dr Nosheena Saleem while PU Department of
Psychology & Applied Psychology Prof Dr Rukhsana Kausar was her
co-supervisor. Tajammal Hussain S/o Ch Bashir Ahmad Jat has been awarded
PhD in 'Total Quality Management' after approval of his research thesis entitled
"Implementation of Quality Management Techniques To Improve the Quality of
Yarm". He completed the thesis under the supervision of PU Institute of
Quality & Technology Management (IQTM) former director and National Textile
University Faisalabad sitting rector Prof Dr Niaz Ahmad while PU Institute of
Quality & Technology Management (IQTM) Dr Nashir Saeed Butt was his
co-supervisor.The news
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