Retaining qualified teachers continues to pose a challenge, the education ministry says. Considerable number of teachers is leaving the profession every year, the annual education statistics 2014 reveals. From 2008 to 2014, more than 1,500 teachers have left the profession.
From 179 teachers who left the profession, last year, 21 of them had superannuated. A few of them left because their contract expired and some because they were terminated, among others.
However, more than a hundred of them voluntarily resigned.
“We have people going to the US and Australia…they resign when their spouses get long-term studies and when they are not able to avail leave…,”said the Chief Human Resource Officer of education ministry, Kinley Gyeltshen.
He also said they have teachers going to Royal University of Bhutan and those resigning on domestic grounds.
The highest number of teachers, leaving the profession, is primary school teachers. Nearly 50 teachers left the profession from primary schools.
However, the teachers leaving the profession have decreased as compared 2013. More than 260 teachers had left the profession then.
At present, there about 7,800 teachers in the government schools across the country.
