Secretary of the Ceylon Teachers’ Union Joseph Stalin has requested the Ministry of Education not to suspend teacher transfers due to political reasons, as was the case during previous governments.
According to the transfer documents of teachers with ten years of service in the same school, the school principals have been notified, but information has been received that some teachers are trying to stay in the same schools.
He said that politicians in previous governments exerted pressure to suspend such transfers and such cases are being reported this time too.
The Teachers’ Transfer Board has recommended that between four thousand and five thousand teachers with ten years of service be transferred, but the Ministry is also facing problems in implementing these transfers due to the lack of successors.
As a solution to this, Stalin proposed that all teachers between the ages of forty-five and fifty-seven who are not engaged in difficult service should be transferred.
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