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Interview for selection of
teachers Punjab Education Minister Upinderjit Kaur’s assertion that interview will be part of the selection process of teachers to fill 40,000 vacancies in schools has caused a flutter among unemployed teachers
(March 15). Why do unemployed prospective teachers feel upset? Unfortunately, there is growing feeling among the youth against the fairness of interviews as part of the selection process. What gives sustenance to their demand of scrapping the interview is the precedent set by the previous regime when it filled vacancies of 2614 government school teachers solely on the basis of academic merit. The selection process the Amarinder Singh government followed at the fag end of its tenure was called ‘fair’ and ‘transparent’. It should be borne in mind that the important question is not the ‘selection process’ but the ‘selection of the best teachers’. Every one knows the constraints under which examinations are held and evaluation is done. To make academic merit the sole criterion for the selection of school teachers cannot be justified by any objective standard particularly at a time when school education in Punjab is increasingly becoming irrelevant to the fast changing needs of the job market. In teaching, the teacher’s personality is very important that only the candidates with most suitable personality traits as teachers be selected. Here lies the challenge and opportunity not only to give Punjab the best teachers in tune with the changing needs but also to restore the sagging confidence of the majority of the youth in the fairness and efficacy of interviews as a part of fair, transparent and effective selection process. J.S.
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