8,000 teachers face the axe from payroll
By JULIA DAIA BORE
MORE than 8,000 teachers in PNG face the axe from their payroll.
This would happen in the next pay day if they do not submit their resumption duty summary sheets to the Education Department in Waigani.
The department secretary Dr Joseph Pagelio said yesterday that 8,O76 teachers out of 38,643 registered nation-wide face being dropped from the payroll.
The teachers are from primary, high, secondary and vocational schools including lecturers teaching at in-service colleges.
Dr Pagelio early this week, informed all provincial education Advisors to ensure teachers’ forms were forwarded to the Education headquarters to avoid unnecessary suspension of teachers from the payroll, which could disrupt classes.
He said by law, all teachers are required to complete the “resumption of duty forms” on the first day of school.
The resumption forms are then verified and endorsed before they are sent to the payroll branch to register that the teacher has actually taken up duty on the position he or she was appointed to.
Dr Pagelio added that teachers suspended from the payroll would be placed back on the payroll upon receipt of their resumption of duty summary forms.
Out of the teachers affected, the break-up by provinces are:
* NCD: from the teaching population of 2,007 teachers, 341 are on the list for suspension.
* Western province: 298 out of 824 teachers will be suspended.
* Gulf province: 148 teachers out of a total 598 face suspension.
* Central province: 546 out of a total 2,167 teachers will be suspended.
* Milne Bay: 396 to be suspended from the total 1,855 teachers in the province.
* Oro: 215 to be suspended out of 1,031teachers.
* Kiunga/Lake Murray: 184 face suspension out of the total of 748 teachers.
* Southern Highlands: 565 will be suspended out of 2,735 teachers.
* Eastern Highlands: 544 from total 2,470 teachers.
* Simbu: 316 from 1,947.
* Western Highlands: 596 to be suspended from a total 2,725 teachers.
* Enga: 469 for suspension from a total of 1,802 teachers.
* Sandaun: 480 for suspension out of a total 1,293.
* East Sepik: 279 for suspension out of 2,227 teachers.
* Madang: 318 for suspension from a total teaching staff of 2,348.
* Morobe: 808 teachers for suspension out of the total of 3,559 teachers.
* West New Britain: 474 for suspension from a teaching population in the province of 1,753.
* East New Britain: 242 for suspension from a total number of 2,342 teachers.
* New Ireland: 403 for suspension from total of 1,265 teachers.
* Autonomous Region of Bougainville : 318 face suspension out of 2,197 teachers.
* Manus: 78 face suspension out of the 646 teachers in the province.
* Lecturers at National Institutions such as in-service colleges and vocational/technical colleges whose staff are on the Education Headquarters payroll: 58 teachers are listed for suspension out of 104 total teaching staff.
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