The decision of Andhra Pradesh government to issue DSC notification for recruitment of teachers has been deferred.
Human Resources Development Minister Ganta Srinivasa Rao who held a review meeting with the Education Department officials here on Thursday said they had written to the Centre to allow B.Ed candidates also for the Secondary Grade Teacher posts under the DSC recruitment.
Previously the National Council for Teacher Education had given permission only till 2012 to allow B.Ed candidates for the SGT posts. As per the rules framed by the NCTE, only D.Ed candidates have eligibility for SGT posts and B.Ed candidates are eligible for School Assistant posts.
In view of over 40 lakh DSC aspirants comprising those with B.Ed and D.Ed qualifications, the State government had written to the Centre to allow B.Ed candidates also to appear for SGT posts till 2016.
On the proposed private university Bill, Mr. Srinivasa Rao said a technical committee would visit Gujarat, Chandigarh and Tamil Nadu and prepare detailed guidelines.
A meeting with the field level education department officers of 13 districts as well as department heads and regional Directors will be held in Visakhapatnam on September 17 to discuss reforms in the education system and provision of amenities in government schools, he said. The concept of cluster schools would be taken forward to provide 10 to 15 model government schools in each mandal with adequate number of teachers and infrastructure facilities.
On counselling for teacher transfers, the Minister said no decision was taken yet. There are about 15,500 teacher posts that are to be rationalised. There is a suggestion to rationalise the posts and then take up the transfers, he added.
