Under-performing teachers and principals to be proceeded against

Rawalpindi

The education department has started compiling the lists of the principals and teachers of those public sector schools whose students showed dismal performance in the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) Annual Examination.

Any action against under-performing teachers and principals would not be first in its kind because the education department had also taken such steps in the past to improve performance of the public sector schools.

It is pertinent to mention here that a total of 123,359 students appeared in the SSC examination for 2016 – 67,417 boys and 55,942 girls. In total, 87,024 students passed. The number of passing male students stood 44,734, and 42,290 female candidates were successful. The pass rate was 71.35 per cent. The success rates among boys and girls were 67.13 per cent and 76.49 per cent respectively.

The official said the schools where pass percentage is less than 51 per cent in SSC annual examination would have to give written replies to the explanations after which the education department would decide what kind of action be taken against them.

"We give bonuses to the teachers who perform well but at the same time those who fail to live up to the expectations would definitely face the music," he said.

He said they have already introduced a mechanism that involves regular progress meetings quickly establishing the responsibility of staff at all levels for their pupils’ achievement and avoiding an ‘excuses culture’.