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Moves to hire teachers from Tamil Nadu refugee camps
View(s):Education State Minister V. Radhakrishnan has sought the Indian Government’s help to recruit graduate maths and science teachers from Sri Lankan refugee camps in Tamil Nadu to fill the vacancies in upcountry Tamil schools.
He said a severe shortage of graduate maths and science teachers in upcountry Tamil schools prompted them to request India to send teachers.
“My ministry tried to recruit teachers from Jaffna, Batticaloa and the hill country, but it failed. Teachers are badly needed in these districts too,” he said.
The minister disputed Ceylon Teachers Union (CTU) leader Joseph Stalin’s claim that teachers could be recruited locally for these subjects.
This week, Mr. Stalin hit out at the minister’s move to bring teachers from another country while hundreds of unemployed graduates were available in the North and East. “He should recruit Sri Lanka’s jobless graduates to fill the vacancies,” he said.
Minister Radhakrishnan, however, countered that there were no qualified maths and science teachers among unemployed graduates from the North and East.