The education ministry abolished the women quota in the teacher recruitment for the secondary-level schools and colleges under the monthly pay order system.
Earlier it was mandatory, in the non-government schools and colleges to recruit female candidates, in 40 per cent of the total teachers鈥� positions in the urban and in 20 per cent of the total teachers鈥� positions in the suburbs and upazila areas.
The Secondary and Higher Education Division under the ministry published a circular in this regard on its website on Thursday while the circular was issued on May 15.
The circular read that no women quota will be effective in case of recommendations to recruit teachers in entry level in different non-government educational institutions.
It also read that the minimum academic eligibility and conditions for recruiting the physical education teacher as per the Non-Government Educational Institution (School and College) Organogram and MPO Guidelines 鈥� 2021 will be unchanged.
Currently the Non-Government Teachers Registration and Certification Authority give recommendations to recruit teachers in the non-government educational institutions.
The authority鈥檚 director (pedagogy and educational standards) Kazi Kamrul Ahsan told 抖阴精品 on Thursday that since 2009 the women quota was in the guidelines to recruit teaches in the non-government educational institutions.
The guidelines were slightly amended in 2012, he said.
Kamrul Ahsan said that in city corporations, municipalities and district areas it was mandatory to recruit female candidates in 40 per cent against the total teachers鈥� positions in the non-government schools and colleges and in suburbs and upazila areas female teachers were being recruited in 20 per cent against the total teachers鈥� positions in these educational institutions.
He also mentioned that some remote areas were out the purview of this mandatory quota system due to difficulties in accessibility and other reasons.
