TSC and School Boards on path to promote more teachers

Apr 10, 2018 News

Efforts are being made by both the Teaching Service Commission [TSC] and the Ministry of Education’s School Boards Secretariat to fill some crucial positions within the public school system. By way of advertisements the two bodies have signalled that teachers can apply for various existing vacancies.
With regards to the TSC, teachers are currently eligible for a number of promotions including heads of Nursery, Primary, Secondary and Practical Instruction Centres Institution.
The Guyana Teachers’ Union [GTU] just last month had expressed hope that the recently installed Teaching Service Commission [TSC] would fast-track efforts to ensure that teachers would be granted promotions they are eligible for.
A new Commission was appointed in February of this year.
According to GTU President, Mr. Mark Lyte, “we are happy to see a new Commission in place because since September of last year we hadn’t a Commission.”
The lack of a Commission, according to Lyte, would have essentially stalled the promotion process for teachers.
Public school teachers were last elevated to senior positions early last year. However, those promotions were for the year 2015. This was due to concerns relating to the promotion process that had caused it to be a matter for the court.
In 2015 the union had moved to the court to have the TSC and the School Boards review their preliminary lists of senior promotions. Because of that court matter, the 2015 promotions were held up and were only fast-tracked last year despite the court’s ruling towards the end of 2016 in favour of the review called for by the GTU.
According to Lyte, while the union is anxious to see the Commission get started on new promotions, it is accepting of the fact that it “will have a lot of work to do in order to make that possible.”
In the meantime, he said that “our concern is that several teachers within the system have not had a chance to be promoted within the last two years. For almost three years, some teachers have not benefited from promotions, and so we would like the Commission to bear that in mind…we are not laying any blame, because we recognise this Commission is new and will need to settle in before the work really gets down.” This is especially in light of the fact, Lyte noted, that the Commission has on board four individuals who are new to its work.
Sitting at the helm of the Commission as Chairman is Mr. Allan Munroe and Ms. Avril Crawford is the Vice Chairperson, while the other members are new.
According to Lyte, the union was optimistic that senior promotions for teachers could take effect from the new school year which begins in September.
From all indications, both the TSC and the School Boards Secretariat are taking the necessary measures that will allow for the realisation of the GTU’s expectation.
Based on an advertisement in the daily newspapers, the Board-governed schools have also invited suitable applicants to apply for a number of senior positions including headmaster, head mistress and heads of departments for secondary schools, technical institutions and the Cyril Potter College of Education.

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