PESHAWAR, July 13: A teachers’ association has demanded that the government should fill the vacant posts of senior English teachers before the classes start from the next month.

Hundreds of SET posts are vacant in government schools all over the Frontier province, says a press release issued by the Muttahida Mahaz-i-Asataza Pakistan here on Sunday.

The teachers shortage has created problems not only for the existing teaching staff, but the students have also been suffering since the change in the syllabus of science subjects, it said.

The teachers body asked the government to immediately filled the vacant posts and appoint SET teachers during the summer vacations to stop further waste of students’ precious time.

The statement added that the teachers community was not responsible for recently announced matric results, in which the students of government schools failed to get marks as per standard of the private schools.

The association blamed government for deputing school teachers in activities other than education, which added to the students sufferings.—Bureau