CHARSADDA: Over 50 high and higher secondary schools in Charsadda district are said to have been running without principals, affecting their educational and administrative affairs.

The disclosure was made at a meeting of the school officers’ association chaired by its district president Haji Rahmuddin the other day. They demanded that the education department constitute a provincial selection board on a war footing to promote senior teachers to the post of principals.

They said the posts of principals in about 50 high and higher secondary schools for boys and girls in Agra, Hari Chand, Mandani, Shakar Dhand, Dargai, Bubak, Hasanzai, Tetara, Haleemzai Shabqadar, Matta Mughalkhel, Ghazgi and Zuhrab Gul Kalli had been lying vacant.

The association members said appointment of permanent principals was vital to improve education standard in these schools. They said on one hand the PTI-led provincial government was making tall claims of education emergency, while on the other, most schools in the province had no administrative heads.

The teachers through a unanimously passed resolution demanded of the chief minister and the education department to arrange provincial selection board to appoint competent senior teachers on merit on the posts of principals.

Published in Dawn, May 24th, 2016