Himachal govt to send 200 school teachers to Singapore on exposure trip, but the visit has a rider fixed
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SHIMLA: The Himachal Pradesh government is all set to send 200 teachers to Singapore on an exposure visit to facilitate quality education. The government will bear entire expenses of the trip and the first batch of teachers will leave between February 20 and 25. The second batch will be sent after the first one is back.
For the first time, the government is sending staff teaching from Class I to XII in government schools of the state abroad. Teachers have been selected for the expedition and most of the formalities for their going abroad have also been completed. They are now only awaiting visa.
The 100 teachers who get their visas first will be sent first to Singapore. Under the Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), these teachers will be taken on visits to various educational institutions, including Singapore University. During their trip, they would have an interaction with the Singaporean teachers and see how children there are taught. Principals and headmasters will learn about leadership roles while teachers will learn techniques to teach children.
There, however, is a rider attached to the trip. The teachers will be transferred to other schools after returning from the exposure visit to Singapore. An assent towards this has already been taken in writing from all the 200 teachers, resulting which they won’t be able to hesitate in their transfers. The state government has been opening new excellence schools and these teachers may be posted there.
In the list of 200 teachers, maximum 50 are JBT (junior basic teacher), head teacher and centre head teacher. Similarly, there are 25 TGT (Trained graduate teacher), 25 C&V (classical and vernacular), 30 PGT, 20 headmaster, 45 principal and five DPE. Teachers have been selected on the basis of their educational qualification and experience. The criteria were already set for this.
