Performance rather than experience is more important when civil service jobs are evaluated.
This important fact was highlighted by the Director Of Civil Service Reform Management Unit Jane Curran at a road show at Jai Narayan College.
Curran says job evaluation involves a person’s ability to demonstrate good performance rather than have a lot of years of experience.
Curran says experience is one of the factors that are required to undertake the work that is done in the job, attached to how the job is written, so it’s the requirements of the job, not the person sitting in the job.
She says some jobs require more experience beforehand compared to other jobs.
Curran says a graduate teacher couldn’t just walk into a principal or a head teacher position, they require more experience and that is reflected in the evaluation of the job.
A teacher had raised a concern where teachers’ salary ceases for seven weeks if they go on overseas leave, and is reimbursed when they come back.
The teacher said that she feels teachers are deprived of their pay during this time and if the system could be changed to give teachers what they are due.
The Attorney General agreed that it is a concern and it will be looked into.
The principal of Vunimono High School had raised the concern that the school is one of the large secondary schools, with 1065 students and 68 teachers and if a vice principal could be deployed there to assist him.
Attorney General replied that the review of schools has not been completed yet, and in the review they will consider class size and number of students to see how if more vice principals are needed in a school.
He says feedback as such helps them.
