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. Next : Parents Urged To Send Children To Registered Schools Only Comments are closed.
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