Eight teachers reinstated

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By CLARISSA MOI
THE Teaching Service Commission disciplinary committee (TSCDC) has reinstated the eight teachers who had allegedly helped students cheat during a grade 10 national examination.
Committee member and Teaching Service Commission (TSC) commissioner for policy Joel Nava said the eight teachers of Kui Wamp Nga High School in Western Highlands appealed to the committee following their sacking by the provincial education board (PEB).
He said the committee met in Mt Hagen last week to hear the appeal and found that the PEB was not the correct authority to dismiss any member of the teaching service hence their reinstatement but with an imposed penalty of salary reduction by four increments.
Nava said the PEB could only recommend the dismissal of teachers to the TSC and the commission was the only authority that could terminate any member of the teaching service.
The Western Highlands education board sacked eight teachers and imposed other disciplinary measures on three others including the headmaster of Kui Wamp Nga High School who allegedly help students to cheat in the 2019 grade 10 national examination.
“These teachers were alleged to have committed a serious disciplinary offence which was assisting students during their grade 10 national examinations,” he said.
Nava said the committee saw some errors on the part of the PEB and was of the view that it did not have the power to terminate the teachers.
He said the allegations were serious and most of the teachers admitted that they had committed the offence.
He noted that it was a legal issue where a wrong entity had terminated the teachers instead of recommending them to the TSC.

3 comments

  • it can be the wrong entity, but the sounding of cheating will continue and others will follow to do the same. TSC think twice some children drain their brain to succeed while this teachers seems fit to cheat. that is not in the best interest of high quality education.

  • This article is not saying that the accused teachers are innocent in doing what they did. They are guilty in aiding the students cheat during final examination. It is only stressing out that the legal authority that terminates teachers is supposed to be the TSCDC and not PEB.

    If that is the case then, the TSCDC must do the right thing by executing the decision made by PEB so that it is legal under the law.

  • The wrong entity does not make what they did right. So taking a few points of their pay is a slap on the wrist and means very little. Terminate them all for commiting the cardinal sin of education, CHEATING!!

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