Summary:
Teachers who were found excess last year have also been considered for staff fixation this year and hence the latest numbers represent the total number of excess staff.“The number of excess staff, teaching and non-teaching together, was 4,059 last year. Of the close to 4,000 teachers found excess, only 102 were given postings outside their native district The number of excess teachers did not match with the impressive increase in the number of students at public schools. He said the number might be below 3,500.Meanwhile, education department has completed the redeployment of all the excess teachers against various vacancies, on a temporary basis. “If the number of students increases in a well-established school, the number of teaching posts wouldn’t increase correspondingly. THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The number of excess teachers in government and aided schools in the state has recorded a marginal drop this year as the staff fixation procedure in these institutions come to a close early this week.As many as 3,753 teaching staff have been found excess, which is 206 less than teachers who were rendered excess by the end of staff fixation last year..