Over 400 graduates refuse teaching appointments: Susil

By Ajith Siriwardana and Yohan Perera

Parliament, August 6 (Daily Mirror)- Some 462 teachers who were given appointments as graduate Grade-2 teachers have not obtained their appointments even after 14 days, Education Minister Susil Premajayantha said today.

He told Parliament that 1,700 new appointments were given two weeks ago for graduates in Mathematics, Chemistry, Biology, Physics and Technology and that 462 out of them have not obtained their appointments.

The Minister said they had not obtained appointments refusing to be employed in outstation schools such as in the Vavuniya, Uhana and Badulla districts.

He said the appointments were given after calling for applications on an islandwide basis and that refusal of appointments to outstation schools has created issues where no graduates of Mathematics and Science would be created through such schools.

He said the Ministry had requested the Examinations Department to give the list of applicants who are next in the list of marks to replace the 462 teachers.