14% teaching posts vacant in boys’ high schools in #pPakistan

According to a countrywide monitoring by Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN), 14% of the sanctioned teaching posts and 12% of the sanctioned non-teaching posts were lying vacant in the government boys’ high schools.
According to FAFEN’s Education Institution Monitor released here Sunday, 42% of the monitored schools did not have a security guard and 27% had no sanitary worker.
FAFEN Governance monitors visited 82 government boys’ high schools in 56 districts of the country. Forty one schools were visited in 25 districts in Punjab, 21 in 14 districts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), 16 in 13 districts in Sindh, three in as many districts of Balochistan and one school in Islamabad (ICT).
In Sindh alone, more than a quarter (27%) of the sanctioned teaching posts in the monitored schools were unoccupied, followed by 12% in Punjab, 10% in KP, 9% in ICT and 4% in Balochistan. Similarly, the highest percentage - 22% - of vacant non-teaching posts was also observed in Sindh followed by 12% in Punjab and 5% in KP. Staff was appointed against all the sanctioned non-teaching posts in the monitored schools in Balochistan and ICT.
Despite the fact that educational institutes are frequently targeted by terrorists, especially in Balochistan and KP, security guards were not present in 42% of the monitored schools across the country. The schools that lacked security guards included 67% of the monitored schools in Balochistan, 62% in Sindh, 52% in KP and 27% in Punjab. With regard to other non-teaching staff, sanitary workers were also not available in 22 of the monitored schools, while peons were available in all but six of the 82 monitored schools.
Some lacks were also observed with respect to appointments of subject specific teachers. As many as 76 schools were offering science subjects (physics, chemistry and biology) to the students while the teaching staff for these subjects was available in 71 schools, implying that five schools enrolled students who wanted to study science but had not appointed a science teacher to teach these subjects.