The committee responsible for reviewing the settlement orders of educational staff in Nineveh Governorate confirmed the existence of interference from political forces, officials and representatives in the work of the Nineveh Education Directorate, especially in the staff settlement file .
This came during a press conference held by members of the Nineveh Council following a meeting of the Special Committee for Settlement of Staff, which discussed interference in the work of Nineveh Education .
Member of the Nineveh Council and member of the Audit Committee for the Settlement of Staff, Muhammad Ahris, said in the press conference: “Transfers of education staff in Nineveh outside legal controls have been identified .”
Ahris added, “These transfers were made through requests from members of parliament from Nineveh province that were submitted to the Minister of Education,” indicating that “these interventions resulted in a surplus in the schools on the left side of Mosul estimated at about 700 teachers and instructors, as this number is more than needed, while the schools on the right side and the areas of western Nineveh suffer from a severe shortage in the number of educational staff .”
He stressed that “the interference in the staff caused a major imbalance in the distribution of staff and that many schools closed their doors due to the lack of teaching staff .”
Ahris called on the Minister of Education to “stop interference in the file of settling educational staff,” stressing that “these political interferences in the work of education have turned the Education Directorate into political fiefdoms .”
For his part, Nineveh Council member Muhannad Najm Al-Jubouri confirmed that “Nineveh’s representatives and politicians are interfering in the work of Nineveh Education in a major way, which has led to the destruction of Nineveh Education .”
Al-Jubouri called on Nineveh’s representatives, officials and politicians to “leave Nineveh Education and the rest of the departments, stop interfering in the work of those departments and go to practice their work in the capital, Baghdad, instead of Nineveh.”
