Academic promotions benefit nearly 1,500 teachers, more on way, says Director-General of School Affairs

TDT | Manama

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Nearly 1,500 teachers were promoted until the start of this month, since the adoption of new standards for teacher promotion last January, said a top official.

Dr Muhammad Mubarak bin Ahmed, the Director-General of School Affairs, said the pace of promotions had accelerated to promote 1,489 teachers, thanks to the new standards.

"Job performance is the sole criteria for awarding promotions," said Dr Ahmed, adding more promotions will come during the July to September period.

To transfer 90 employees

He said the School Affairs is also coordinating with the Civil Service to transfer 90 employees to the position of heads and coordinators of administrative affairs in government schools as per available vacancies.

"We have already filled some of the vacancies," he confirmed.

Moving on, Dr Mohamed Mubarak said the new school organizational structure now allows employees at the technical level (information technician and data technician) to become teaching assistants at the eighth degree.

Requirements for this position will be announced in the upcoming weeks.

"We created these positions for supporting teachers and giving technicians an opportunity for career advancement," he added.

The Director-General further said that the Schools Affairs seeks to make optimum use of the “government employee” system in coordination with the Civil Service Authority.

600 applications

“We already received more than 600 applications from people working in other government agencies for several positions available in the educational sector,” he added.

"The competition is intense among Bahrainis wanting to work in the education sector."

He further revealed that work is ongoing to transfer government employees to the position of a teacher and the head of schools.

“We will announce transfers as heads of the Centre for Gifted Students Care soon, where promotion extends up to the fourth special executive decree.”

He called on government employees interested in the job to apply if they qualify the criteria that the authority will announce in the next two weeks.