Teaching and non-teaching staff of schools and colleges have been sent on training for census duty, disrupting the academic process in educational institutions.
The training census duty started on Thursday and teachers and staff members will serve as enumerators in the actual census.
The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) will conduct the seventh national census, which is currently scheduled to take place from February 1st to March 4th, 2023.
Teachers were ambivalent about their census duties. A teacher, seeking anonymity, said that it was an abrupt and unplanned move by the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE), which is hampering the normal functioning of schools and colleges.
The administration is roping in teachers on census duty and students are suffering. Our teachers have hardly finished half of the syllabus yet, the teacher added.
Another teacher said that the academic schedule in government schools had been derailed. The administration did not even bother to ask the principals about the availability of teachers.
The FDE should not have shown an indifferent attitude in this sensitive matter. After all, it is a matter of our future generation. A plan should be devised to tackle the issue, the teacher stated.
The teacher added that only non-teaching staff should be deployed on census duty because when teachers leave schools and colleges to attend training, students suffer the most.
Another teacher said that for the first time, college professors are deployed for this job. It is ridiculous to send them on door-to-door activity in order to collect census data. None of the professors were expecting to be deployed on census duty being in the officer cadre. Professors should not be forced to do census duties because it would leave a negative impact on educational activities,” the teacher claimed.
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Really a devastating step taken by government
Not only professor they also pressured on newly appoint teachers to do this at any time.until the teacher not receive their salaries yet…how could a teacher servive at such circumstances.
why are teachers disuaded from their educational obligations and dragged into this irrelevant duty? That too when there is an academic crises in this province that is plaguing society more!!!
Im private teacher
Ok which school
Apki b duty hai kiya
This nation doesn’t require education. They promote dancers singer bribers looters plunders.
when teacher goes on long summer vacation then no student suffer. immagin students have to pay hafty amount in account of tutions fees. Now professors are also being disturbed not to earn money with both hands while running their acedimies. Teaching Mafia
Teachers never want long summer vacation these vacation are for students baby
Pak population wont be less than 300 million in any case
I am interested
I’m interested in the future