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Ttuta Concerned Power Shifting - Trinidad, Tobago / Caribbean - Posted: 31st Aug, 2009 - 1:35am
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Ttuta Concerned About Power Shifting
I am concerned as well. Why Manning wants to change the power of the existent Teaching Commission and create "special agencies" in every Ministry? Sounds like such political agenda!
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| The Trinidad and Tobago Unified Teachers Association says it is deeply "concerned" about the Government's proposal to remove the powers of "hiring and firing" from the Teachers Service Commission, saying this will only open the door for political interference. TTUTA president Rouston Job yesterday noted that the commission has always been an independent body, free of political interference. He said they would be skeptical about another body being set up by the Government and charged with the responsibility of firing and hiring teachers, saying they are concerned about it "because we feel that the process can be one that is opened to interference and one that can be tainted with different agendas". Job's comment came in the wake of an announcement by Prime Minister Patrick Manning on Monday night, that the Government was seeking to establish human resource units within each ministry, and a special agency for the teaching service. This unit, Manning told a PNM public meeting in Diego Martin, would oversee employing, promoting and disciplining public servants and teachers and was part of the recommendations being made in the new draft Constitution... |
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