The Tanzeem-e-Asatiza Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa has rejected the government’s decision to assign supervision and inspection duties in the upcoming examinations to fresh graduates and staff of the Education Monitoring Authority (EMA). The organisation’s provincial president Dr Aamir Atiq Siddiqui, along with Tanzeem-e-Asatiza Haripur district president Shahid Mahmood Gohar and secretary Masoodur Rehman, expressed these views in a joint statement. They noted that several educational boards in KP have formally announced applications from fresh graduates to take up proctoring duties in the upcoming exams, a move they said has caused widespread concern among the teaching community and academic circles. They argued that, whether in the field of teaching or in the evaluation of student performance, no component of the examination system can be separated from the teacher. Over time, they argued, teachers have distanced themselves from the supervision of the academic process within educational institutions, divided into management and teaching staff, and eliminated from curricular bodies under administrative pretexts. They further allege that teachers are being removed from the basic responsibilities of educational boards and that supervisory duties in examinations are now also being withdrawn. They noted that, in particular, these experiments are carried out exclusively in KP. The statement emphasizes that teachers, like all government employees, remain accountable to the State even after their retirement and can be held liable for any shortcomings during their service. In addition, teachers are fully familiar with their tasks and maintain close supervision. They argued that any deficiencies within the system should be rectified rather than destabilizing the entire structure. The organization described the decision to entrust examination tasks to recent graduates, or to delegate inspection responsibilities to Education Supervision Authority staff, as an open expression of distrust towards public school teachers. He stressed that the exams constitute a sensitive and highly responsible process that requires experience, professional training and knowledge of the system, qualities that he stated that recent graduates, EMA staff or administrative staff cannot match as stakeholders compared to school and university teachers. The Tanzeem-e-Asatiza Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa expressed serious reservations about the policy and asked the authorities to review the decision, safeguard the status and dignity of the teaching profession and address deficiencies where they exist, instead of undermining the integrity of the education and examination system.
Educators reject new exam proctors
