The routine practice of academic arrangements for teaching in higher secondary schools, degree colleges and even universities is a bad trend set by the successive popular governments of erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir state and this bad trend is going unstopped even now when government is laying it’s full focus on fast track recruitments in Jammu & Kashmir. This is a bad trend the solution of which lies in fast track recruitments promised by none else than Lt Governor Manoj Sinha who himself is more concerned about educational upliftment of J&K youth than anyone else within or outside the government in Jammu & Kashmir. Since engagements for academic arrangements for few months does not give sense of job satisfaction or job security to the contractual appointees, the regular appointments on teaching positions though a fast recruitment drive by J&K Public Service Commission is the only way to stop this bad trend which in turn would also give sense of both job satisfaction and as well as job security to the highly qualified youth aspiring to take up the job of teaching in higher secondary schools and colleges in Jammu & Kashmir. Though school education department has started deputing post graduate teachers to higher secondary schools for teaching specified subjects to students’ of class 11 and class 12 but staff gape arrangements of this nature too won’t end up the intensity of the shortage of teaching staff shortage in higher secondary schools.
Since the delays in referring the teaching posts by departments of higher and school education departments also delays the regular recruitments for vacant faculty positions in both the schools and higher education departments, the referrals of the vacant teaching positions by the said departments if fast paced on priority will consequently fast track the recruitment process for teaching positions at J&K Public Service Commission. Regular appointments against vacant faculty positions will not only reduce the scope for academic arrangements but will also improve the standard of teaching in both the higher secondary schools and as well as colleges in both Kashmir valley and as well as Jammu division.
While the upgradation of some high schools to higher secondary schools and establishing of new degree college in almost all the districts both Kashmir valley and Jammu division in recent years has also necessitated creation of new faculty positions for new higher secondary schools and recently established degree colleges, the process of fresh creations and referring of fresh teaching positions to J&K public services commission (J&K PSC) needs to be expedited on priority by both the school and higher education departments. Since the delays in referring the teaching posts by departments of higher and school education departments also delays the regular recruitments for vacant faculty positions in both the schools and higher education departments, the referrals of the vacant teaching positions by the said departments if fast paced on priority will consequently fast track the recruitment process for teaching positions at J&K Public Service Commission. Regular appointments against vacant faculty positions will not only reduce the scope for academic arrangements but will also improve the standard of teaching in both the higher secondary schools and as well as colleges in both Kashmir valley and as well as Jammu division.
