Aesthetic teachers to be recruited

W.P.B. Fonseka, Bingiriya group corr.

BINGIRIYA: Measures are taken to fill aesthetic teacher vacancies.

"There is a shortage of aesthetic teachers in government schools all over the country and the ministry is planning to recruit 8000 teachers for dancing, music and arts in the near future," said Kurunegala Assistant Director of Education J.M. Amarapala.

Addressing a conference of Vice Principals of Kurunegala district at Bingiriya education office auditorium Amarapala said the government has decided to fill all the vacancies of teachers in schools during this year and the 10,000 management assistants working at schools too will be absorbed in to the teaching profession.

These recruits will be appointed to remote schools where teacher vacancies exist.

Teacher trainees passing out from National Colleges of Education after training will be appointed to remote schools for their one year practical training, he said.