Headmasters to be queried over teachers appointment

SOME headmasters of Madang schools will be summoned this week for allegedly making their own teaching appointments.
Mamose regional Teachers Service commissioner Joseph Ouyoum claimed yesterday he had received reports about certain head masters appointing their cronies and relatives to teach in their schools while the appointments by the provincial education board were set aside.
“A big number of teachers in the area were still without teaching positions,” he said.
“We are looking into these reports so the head masters involved would be summoned this week.”
Ouyoumb said all teachers had appointments.
He said those without appointments were the ones who wanted to go against the appointment made by the provincial education board.
Madang provincial education director Moses Sariki said the teachers’ strike over their outstanding leave fares had affected some appointments.
Sariki said once all teachers were in class, monitoring of their resumption forms and record of service would be submitted to the salary office.
“Once this is complete, we will know which positions are vacant and allocate them to teachers who don’t have positions,” he said.
Sariki said teachers would not waste their time enquiring at the Education office because that process would take two to three weeks.
“I advise the appointment office not to entertain them until this process is over.”
Sariki said the old system of handing resumption forms at the salary office had been done away with and those documents would now go through him before they ended up at the salary office.