Rural schools struggling to fill vacant teacher positions

Maths and science are compulsory subjects up to the secondary level, but there are not enough teachers. Some schools are hiring less qualified teachers.

In the past three months, Janjagriti Secondary School in Parnagaun in Mangala Rural Municipality-1, of Myagdi, put up a vacancy advert for the post of a maths teacher for the tenth time on July 10. But the school, which has been trying to hire a teacher on a contract basis with a monthly salary of Rs30,000, has received not a single application.