Saturday 16 September 2017

Teacher’s Registry can make teaching a true profession

When I became a Chartered Accountant, I was given a number. This number is my permanent affiliation number with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India which is the authority to monitor the CA profession in India. With this number the Institute tracks a CA’s  employment status, any complaints for that CA, how many trainee articles are registered with the CA, how many audit he is doing – as there are limits to number of audit a CA can do. So if you wish to take services of any CA- either full time or part time then you just need to know the registration number and the birthdate and you can get the profile on the Institutes website. You can see the past employment and qualification date and several other details. 
Such kind of registry is common for various professionals. For example, the Rehabilitation Council of India has a list of all professionals who have been approved by them. One can visit the website and check with the registration number and get full details of any registered candidate. 
Imagine such an online searchable registry for teachers. A board like CBSE can maintain such a registry and schools can search for teacher’s details like:

1. Date of qualification
2. Experience till date 
3. Achievements and Awards 
4. Subjects taught in which standards 
5. Training programs attended 

This could help parents also gauge the teacher and see what kind of teachers does the school employ. A well experienced teacher would have a good online profile. These days there is a concept of posting online reviews. So parents who want to put review of the teachers can do so which can help teacher tremendously while searching for better job in the same city or anywhere across India. 
There is a teacher shortage in India and such an effort can help us motivating youth with joining the teaching profession and build a long term stable career with it. Publishing statistics of teachers in various cities and states can also help migrants to decide where job opportunities can be more. 
This can also double up as a recruitment portal and schools across India can find quality teachers from there. 
Long time ago Medical colleges recruited less doctors and on the day of inspection they would borrow doctors from other colleges and show them as if they were employed full time. However a unique registration number can be linked to each affiliation ID of the school such a practice can be stopped. 
CBSE has strict guidelines as far as number of teachers, qualifications and experience. Such a system can help implement everything with watertight enforcement.   
 

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