KARACHI, Nov 3: Candidates aspiring for contract-based appointments as lecturers at colleges in the province, will have to appear before the Sindh Public Service Commission for interviews, sources in the Sindh Education department said.
The three-year contract appointments of about 752 lecturers at government colleges across the province would be finalized in two phases, a senior officer in the department said, explaining that in the first phase, the candidates would have to take a written test, planned to be held at three main centres in the province, and in the second, the short-listed candidates would be further interviewed by the SPSC panels for final selection.
In response to an advertisement, the department had already received 15,000 applications, while another five to seven thousand were expected as the department had extended the date for submission of application for the posts of lecturers, the source said
However, the process for the conduct of written test would begin in the first week of December, he said, adding the maximum number of posts under the contract system had been created for the English, ie 100, followed by Commerce (92), Computer Science (69), Chemistry (59), Pakistan Studies (51), Physics (50) and Mathematics (50).
It was learnt that the urban/rural quota of 40:60 would be maintained with regard to the appointments of lecturers. The selected candidates would be entitled to get salary and other perks equivalent to those of permanent lecturers.
According to other sources, the process for appointment of teachers for newly-established schools and colleges was also underway. The regular appointments were likely to follow the completion of adhoc ones.
Sindh Education Secretary Ghulam Ali Pasha told Dawn that under the adhoc appointment scheme the government wanted to appoint about 752 college lecturers of grade 17 and about 5,500 school teachers, including junior and high school teachers in the province on emergent basis.
The adhoc lecturers were being appointed to overcome acute shortage of teachers at different colleges in the province. The posts in question had fallen vacant either due to retirement of teachers and expansion of some colleges or prolonged ban on teachers’ appointments, he added.
To a question, he said that adhoc appointment system was approved by the Sindh chief minister, while the sindh government had also allocated an amount of Rs500 million in its current budget for the purpose.
He said that teachers’ contract-based posts would be advertised in the national press soon, following which union and district councils would decide about the test and interview process.
In order to mitigate the problem of absenteeism and inconvenience caused to teachers with regard to transport, the department had decided to invite applications for school teacher posts from the persons available in the union councils, where schools were located, he pointed out.
