The severe shortage of teachers in all the colleges of Sindh, including Karachi, has been a constant obstacle in the way of proper and quality teaching environment, and there are some other subjects, including computer science, whose teachers are not present in the government colleges, due to which various subjects are taught in most of the government colleges in Karachi. cannot be taught.
The Department of College Education is unable to provide teaching of all subjects in the students’ colleges. According to a careful estimate, there are more than 2300 vacant seats of teachers in government colleges of Karachi alone. Apparently, no significant results are coming out of these efforts and recently in a letter issued by the Karachi Directorate of College Education Department, Sindh, this situation is further highlighted. Revealed.
In the letter addressed to the principals of the government colleges, “the principals have been instructed to make arrangements for conducting classes for teaching in their respective institutions and said that the academic session which started from August has completed more than three months and it is considered that Meanwhile, the course plan for three months will be completed.
In this letter, the Director Colleges Karachi himself disclosed that it has come to his knowledge that some colleges have not completed the teaching as per the course plan and the required classes have not been conducted.
The letter states that in order to achieve the goal of timely conduct of classes for quality education, if there is a shortage of teachers, the college principals may conduct the college classes through other available teachers.
The letter also states that if any teacher does not cooperate with the college administration in this regard, the directorate should be reported for administrative action in this regard.
It should be noted that with this letter, the problem of shortage of teachers in the government colleges of Karachi has come to the fore, while a new discussion has also started on the opinion of having the teachers of other subjects teach any other subject, how it is possible.
The quality and consistent teaching discussed in the letter could be possible through a teacher of another subject.
When “Express” spoke to the Regional Director of College Karachi Prof. Faqir Muhammad Lakhu, he said that “the problem more than the lack of teachers is the appointment of teachers in colleges on rational basis, some such colleges There are 7 or more teachers of each subject, while in some other colleges there is not even one teacher of the same subject. have been done while a large number of teachers from the Sindh Public Service Commission are going to be sent to the colleges soon.
In addition, according to the official details of the vacant posts of teachers in more than one hundred and fifty government colleges of Karachi from the Department of College Education, 2360 of the 5477 posts of teachers are currently vacant and teachers are working on 3117, only in Karachi. 1359 posts of Lecturer and 661 posts of Assistant Professor are vacant.
Similarly, 237 posts of Associate Professor/Principals in grade 19, 4 posts of Professor/Principal in grade 20 and librarian are vacant.
On the other hand, the sources told “Express” that “the recruitment of about 1600 new teachers in the government colleges of Sindh has reached the final stages. to be distributed due to delay.
The sources also said that even when these 1600 teachers are transferred to the colleges, there will still be a shortage of teachers in Karachi because only a little more than 300 of them will be appointed in the colleges of Karachi.
College sources told “Express” that only a few colleges, including Sirsyed Government Girls College, do not have teachers for Botany, Pakistan Studies, Psychology, Sociology, Persian, Computer, Physical Education and International Relations.
Similarly, in Adamji Science College, there are no teachers of Islamic Studies and Statistics, while there is one teacher each of English, Computer, and Pakistan Studies.
DJ Sindh Government Science College has insufficient teachers of Mathematics and English, Jinnah Government College Nazimabad has no Pakistan Studies teacher while Botany, Islamic Studies have one each and Commerce has 2 teachers.
In this college, the enrollment of only science subjects is 3900 while the enrollment in commerce is around 1100.
About 400 students are also enrolled in Arts, jbko Siraj-ud-Daula College is also being told that there is a severe shortage of teachers teaching in the college despite the ongoing computer science program. When contacted, Director General Colleges Sindh Dr Naveed Rab Siddiqui also admitted that the colleges are facing shortage of more than 2200 teaching staff.
He said, “We are trying to provide teachers to the colleges on the basis of SNE, we have sent the necessary details to our department in this regard and the Secretary College Education is also working on it, but Finance is also involved so it is time consuming.
He confirmed that offer letters are to be given to the new teachers from the Chief Minister’s House sometime in December.
