Contract teachers seek chance for civil-servant status
Representatives of an association of teachers working on contractual basis urged the Education Minister Monday to let them sit for civil-servant examination.
Some 50 members of the association represented thousands of fellow teachers to lodge a complaint with the minister, which was accepted by Anan Rangubtook, deputy general of the Office of Basic Education Commission.
The association is comprised of 5,290 teachers hired to teach special subjects and 3,972 teachers hired to boost students’ knowledge in mathematics and science. They had been employed under the second stimulus package (SP2) launched by the Abhisit Vejjajiva government.
Amornrat Thongsadee, president of the association, said the teachers were not allowed to apply for civil-servant status because they had not been hired according to the regulations of the Office of the Teacher Civil Service and Educational Personnel Commission. He added that they were also not allowed to apply for civilservant status because their salaries were not being paid out of the ministry’s budget even though they held the same licences and permits as teachers employed under other schemes.
The Nation
