Hon. (Dr.) Harini Amarasuriya - Prime Minister and Minister of Education, Higher Education and Vocational Education
The Prime Minister, as Minister of Education, confirmed that temporary teacher attachments are used between National and Provincial Schools to address staffing shortages. She stated that a 14 July 2023 circular directed Zonal Directors to make such attachments based on Subject Directors’ recommendations, including moving excess teachers to schools with subject shortages, and said the remaining parts of the question were not applicable.
Verbatim record (translated)
Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Speaker, the answer is as follows:
¶ 02 (a) (i) Yes. To address shortages in National and Provincial Schools, teachers are temporarily attached between schools. (ii) No. By circular letter dated 14.07.2023, No. 110/01/27/14/1-2, all Zonal Directors were informed that attachments should be made based on recommendations of Subject Directors whereby excess teachers in National Schools are attached to Provincial Schools having shortages in those subjects, and vice versa. (iii) Not applicable. (b) Not applicable.
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