FG college teachers demand reforms in FDE

Say regulatory body failed to dispose of time-scale, promotion cases for years

ISLAMABAD:

Teachers of Federal Government Colleges have demanded an overhaul of the administrative structure of the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) to resolve their long-standing issues.

According to the teachers, the imbalanced administrative structure of the department was the root cause of their long-standing unresolved issues which has created unrest among teachers. The issues like the creation of posts of teachers, pending promotion cases, unavailability of funds for rental ceiling, grant of higher time scale to the teachers, grant of MS allowance and revision of 4-tier service structure etc have not been resolved since long.

According to them, there is no separate director for FG Colleges at the FDE and administrative powers are concentrated in a few hands, making the officers of FDE overburdened.

An associate professor at Islamabad Model Postgraduate College H-8, on the condition of anonymity, said that the post of director (colleges) is being held by a teacher of model colleges who was already holding two offices of Area Education Officer (Urban) and Director Model Colleges.

“The same teacher has been given an additional charge as Director Ex-FG Colleges. One man takes all the decisions and decides the modes of implementing them.

This act by the highest FDE authorities has raised questions such as if there is a dearth of capable officers in FDE or the FG Colleges to hold this most important and promising office,” the associate professor said and alleged that the Director Academics, who is supervising advance BS level courses in ICT colleges, is a headmistress of a school and did not have experience of teaching the graduate and postgraduate level classes nor she worked in a college even for a short time.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, February 7^th, 2022.