Last year, the Guyana Teaching Service Commission (TSC) dismissed 138 teachers. Of that number,Cheap Jerseys Store, 134 had their services terminated because they left the system without submitting the requisite notice. The others were dismissed for other reasons.These statistics were disseminated to the media in a press release by TSC yesterday but did not state how many teachers who had their services terminated were trained teachers or trained graduate teachers.According to the release, the Commission executed its constitutional authority to appoint, promote and discipline teachers in 2012. “As a consequence,Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping, the Commission appointed 659 junior teachers, made 315 Senior Promotions, disciplined 34 teachers and dismissed 138,” TSC said.It was noted that the Disciplinary Committee of the Commission dealt with 34 complaints about the behaviour of teachers who broke the Code of Conduct and were inappropriate. TSC stated that some teachers were interdicted from duty and in extreme cases were dismissed.“Some were found guilty of sexual misdemeanors including touching/fondling of students, child abuse specifically emotional abuse, vulgar/ inappropriate behaviour in school, and inappropriate relationships with students. Pornography reared its ugly head among teachers and elicited a zero tolerance approach from the Commission,” TSC related.Teachers were also disciplined for neglecting their duties.TSC noted that yearly a large number of teachers attend the University of Guyana (UG) to improve their knowledge and upgrade their status in the profession.The Commission said that while it is happy when a teacher upgrades his/her qualification, a number of teachers do not apply for releases to attend UG as is required by the Ministry of Education. Thus in some schools, classes are left unattended, and this forces the Ministry of Education to take corrective action.And, this sometimes leads to teachers having to be disciplined for neglect of duty or irregularity by the Teaching Service Commission.While 39 teachers resigned,Cheap Jerseys From China, 347 secondary school graduates were appointed as teachers at the junior level, and 226 trained class-one grade-one teachers and 86 class-three from the pre-service programme at the Cyril Potter College of Education (C.P.C.E.) were added to the list.TSC said that the in-service programme from C.P.C.E. produced 245 trained class-one grade-one, and 30 class-three teachers were appointed to schools,Cheap Jerseys From China, but were already counted as teachers within the system.Expounding on the appointment of teachers, TSC stated that over the past few years, there were many applicants with 10 or more Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate passes with Grades One to Four,Wholesale NBA Jerseys, but who had passes lower than grade Three in English Language and Mathematics. It was noted that a pass of grade Three and higher in English Language and Mathematics is compulsory for appointment as a Temporary Qualified Master/Mistress.TSC related that some vacancies for junior appointments were unfilled for numerous reasons including lack of eligible applicants in specific technical fields living within or close to some schools; applicants had passes in technical fields but were deficient in English and to a lesser extent, Mathematics; unavailability of housing in some riverain areas; and persons finding great difficulty in travelling long distances to reach some schools.“The Senior Promotion Vacancy Notice 2012,Cheap Jerseys, published at the request of the Ministry of Education, and accompanied by the “Criteria for Promotion 2012” attracted 658 applicants; from this number 315 senior promotions were made,” the release stated.The Commission is now commencing the processing of applications for Senior Promotions 2013. TSC related that visits were made to a number of Regions during 2012 and discussions were held with Regional Officials and Education Staff.The main purpose was to interface with teachers in the Regions. The visits allowed TSC to meet staff of identified schools, address clusters of teachers, listen to concerns and offer advice where necessary.