TRB to recruit 9,500 teachers for schools, colleges

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TIMES NEWS NETWORK

23.01.2022

Chennai: Teachers Recruitment Board will recruit 9,494 teachers and assistant professors for government schools and colleges in 2022. Given the increase in the enrollment in government schools by eight lakh students during the pandemic, the government is planning to recruit 4,989 teachers, including 3,902 secondary grade teachers and 1,087 graduate teachers, for the state-run schools this year.

According to the annual planner, the TRB would conduct six recruitment drives and a Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) in 2022. The planner was released by school education minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi on Sunday.

The board is planning to conduct the postgraduate teachers recruitment test in the second or third week of February. The TET exam will be conducted in the second week of April after a gap of two years.

As per a government order, the board also will conduct its first recruitment test for the appointment of secondary grade teachers and graduate teachers among the TET qualified candidates in the second week of June. Earlier, the weightage system was followed for appointing TET qualified candidates as secondary grade and graduate teachers. It was replaced with a recruitment test.

Further, as the government arts and science colleges too face severe faculty shortage, the TRB will recruit 1,334 more assistant professors this year. "This is in addition to the 2,331 vacancies notified by the TRB in 2019. The recruitment will be completed in 2022," an TRB official said.

Besides, the board will conduct recruitment test to fill 167 vacancies for lecturer posts in SCERT in June.