Kathmandu, February 18

The Department of Education has directed all district education offices to keep spare higher secondary-level teachers and unused grants in a pool.

As per the Community Higher Secondary School Level Teachers Management Directive-2015 (with amendment), the higher secondary schools were provided teachers along with grants but they remained unused in some schools due to lack of students.

Yogendra Prasad Baral, deputy director, Community School Management Section, DoE today said due to lack of students, the teachers and grants provided to higher secondary schools were not fully utilised.

“The schools were in dilemma over what to do with such teachers and the unspent grants. Thus, we directed the DEOs to keep such teachers and unused grants in a pool,” he said.

He stated that there were around 2,600 community higher secondary schools across the country. The government had decided to provide three teachers along with grants to higher secondary schools with science faculty and two teachers/grants to schools with other faculties.

Issuing a circular to 75 DEOs on February 16, DoE had issued a seven-point directive to the DEOs regarding the management of teachers and grants.

The directive states that the teachers and grants in the pool will be later distributed to other higher secondary schools on the basis of student population.

Similarly, the higher secondary schools have to return teachers and grants if they failed to enroll minimum number of students mentioned in the Community Higher Secondary School Level Teachers Management Directives-2015 for two academic sessions.

Likewise, if any school where the teachers and grants were provided before the implementation of directives has failed to enroll minimum number of students, the teachers and grants would be withdrawn and kept in the DEO pool.

The DoE has also directed schools to run either general or technical and vocational classes if the school lacks minimum number of students.

Schools having very few students are advised to merge with another higher secondary school or running classes for Grade XI and XII.