The Department of Education has decided to formulate a centralized system for the appointment of teachers. This comes in the wake of the numerous complaints in the recruitment process of secondary and higher secondary teachers.
The issue was taken up after various irregularities in the recruitments were pointed out to the Department. The recruitments were usually conducted at the district level with members of the Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (GSHSEB) as part of the recruitment team.
Hasmukh Adhia, Principal Secretary, and Department of Education, said: “The amendments for a central interviewing committee has been passed in the Assembly. We are in the process of finalizing the details and deciding on who all should form part of the interview committee. This will be finalized within the next two months. We will be in a position to implement the new system to recruit teachers for the new academic session.”
The centralized recruitment system plans to include a common test for the applicants to bring in a standardized way of judging the candidates for the post of teachers and principals.
The teachers are recruited as per their performance in the B.Ed exam, but every college has its own way of marking and grading, which is actually not a proper method to judge the merit of all the teachers. We are planning for a common test for the teachers for recruitment, which would be held once or twice a year. With the inclusion of Class VIII in the primary education, we will have a surplus of teachers to test the new system