TIMERGARA, May 5: Differences between subject specialists and senior teachers intensified after the NWFP government moved to upgrade posts and decided to convert higher secondary schools to intermediate colleges.

The subject specialists association opposed the decision, saying that they would launch an agitation against it. However, the senior staff association of Lower Dir district praised the policy.

Leaders of the senior staff association Lower Dir Haji Abdur Rehman, Shahbaz Khan, Aftab Alam and Jamil Khan told newsmen at a press conference here that the higher secondary schools had played no remarkable role in the progress of education at the secondary level.

They said that there were 137 higher secondary schools in the NWFP where a huge amount of the government funds were being wasted aimlessly.