AMMAN —
Minister of Education Wajih Owais said on
Sunday at a meeting with the Parliamentary Finance Committee that 92,000
teachers and 20,000 administrators work for the ministry, and that 4,000 new
appointments will be made possible from the ministry’s budget, which stands at
about JD1 billion.
اضافة اعلان
He also said that the ministry has 10,000 vacancies,
attributed by
ministry Undersecretary for Administrative and Financial Affairs
Najwa Qbeilat to the establishment of new schools and to the transfer of more
than 211,000 students from private to public schools because of the COVID-19
pandemic, which has led to increased pressure on the infrastructure and cadres
of public schools.
Qbeilat stressed that appointments are made in
accordance with the vacancies list compiled as part of the state budget by the
end of June, noting that the Central Committee at the Civil Service Bureau has
approved including 4,000 vacancies in the 2022 list.
She added that the Finance Committee recommended
increasing the number of vacancies at the Ministry of Education, adding that
having 4,000 vacancies is a record, as the Ministry of Education used to
announce 1,500 to 1,900 vacancies at most, and that often some vacancies were
canceled.
This year, she reiterated, the Appointments
Committee recommended listing 4,000 vacancies, while 10,000 vacancies are the
total shortfall in the educational field, adding that all these numbers are
preliminary and under discussion.
Head of the Central Amman Education Directorate
Nawal Abu Reden said that these preliminary figures indicate that the ministry
is serious about maintaining the academic level by increasing appointments, and
is proof of its concern for the public interest.
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