The Education Ministry has recruited 4,645 teacher trainees (diploma holders) who had passed out from the National Colleges of Education to solve the existing acute shortage of school teachers in remote Government schools countrywide, Education Ministry Secretary Prof. Kapila Perera said.
These teacher trainees had passed out from the National Colleges of Education countrywide after completing their three- year long residential teacher training courses by following the National Teaching Diploma Training Courses of the academic year 2017-2019.
Accordingly, they all were offered with teaching appointments on the May 4, and from this group around 1,000 diploma holders were appointed to National Schools and around 3,645 diploma holders were appointed to provincial council schools countrywide, he said.
Prof. Perera said that these new teachers were placed in the Sri Lanka Teachers’ Service under the Grade 3-1(a) salary scale.