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An ancient institution that should be done way with
Dear Editor,
There could be no happier observer than this writer at the reported protest by the Guyana Teachers’ Union against the existence of the Teachers’ Service Commission, probably the most archaic Government agency in operation – since the colonial days of the ‘Whitley Council’ – an anachronism perpetuated by successive administrations – one substantial indicator of their indifference respectively to the sustainability, and less, the development of the teaching profession.
What is also interesting is that while commentators have bemoaned the depreciation in the education system (incidentally to blind and deaf administrators) they have not sufficiently focused on the depressed conditions of employment which teachers/lecturers across-the-board have consistently endured.
Once more attention has to be drawn to the highly inequitable Grade Structure as compared with that of the Public Service. Compare a remarkable 28 Grades, plus a Special Grade in the Teaching Service with an uncomplicated Job hierarchy of 14 Grades in the counterpart Public Service.
The following Table1 shows a comparison (or contrast) between jobs in the respective sectors, based on the applicable salary ranges.
TABLE 1
Comparative Jobs Structures based on Broad Salary Relativities
The above disposition must make for the most self-contradictory job hierarchy anywhere in the world. Imagine looking forward to a career prospect of ‘Temporary’ promotions. From any interpretation of career growth it is a construct of sheer idiocy.
E.B. John
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