Lecturers with expired terms without positions

By DOROTHY MARK
Forty-five lecturers at the Madang Teachers’ College are without teaching positions.
The term of their positions expired last year and they need to be reappointed this year, the chairman of the governing council, Moses Gabuogi, said.
Sixty-seven lecturers were to teach at the college but only 21 had their positions confirmed, he said.
The terms of the college’s governing council, which was supposed to recommend consequential appointments of the lecturers, had also expired and that complicated matters.
Gabuogi said the council made prior arrangements to avoid the issue but the National Education Board delayed the process.
“We made recommendations for 10-year positions and the consequential appointments last year, but just received the list for appointment for the 10-year positions only,” Gabuogi said.
The 10-year positions accommodated the 21 lecturers who now have positions, the other 45-46 without positions would come under the consequential appointments, he said.
Gabuogi said the governing council would meet on Friday to see to the positions of board members and look into the current issues of the college.
Gabuogi said classes would start once the National Education Board endorsed the consequential list.
Meanwhile registration at the college began at a slow pace yesterday. Education board members could not be contacted.