Published : 27-01-2017
In letters emailed to AGPS under such titles as “Accepted here, Rejected there” and “UNRWA. . . Unheeded Cries for Help,” instructors at UNRWA schools in Al-Muzeireeb, in southern Syria, slammed the agency’s “iniquitous” appointment mechanisms.
The teachers wondered about the reasons why their names have not been included in the lists of the newly-tenured instructors.
The instructors further spoke out against the lack of transparency in the tenure process, saying such a privilege has been granted to those who were appointed in 2017 at the expense of those appointed in 2011.
According to the emailed letters, 205 instructors in Damascus branch received such tenure offers, compared to 12 only Deraa. None of such privileges were however granted to those teaching in Al-Muzeireeb, a home to the largest UNRWA schools in Deraa province.
Four UNRWA schools are located in Deraa: Ein Al-Zaytoun, Quds, Teraan, and Al-Abbassiya.
In response to the complaints, UNRWA said there are currently no vacancies available for Deraa teaching staff, in comments that triggered further tension in the area.
A number of UNRWA teachers were killed in onslaughts launched by the government battalions on Al-Muzeireeb.
The list of casualties includes 50-year-old Houriya Ahmad Al-Seid, who died of shrapnel inflicted by a blast near Ein Al-Zaytoun School.
The casualty worked as the head of the nursing staff in a UNRWA medical center in Al-Muzeireeb, in Deraa.
57-year-old Suzan Ghazazwa, an instructor at the UNRWA-run Al-Abbasiya School in Al-Muzeireeb, also died after an artillery shell hit her home in Deraa.
A massacre perpetrated by the regime army on Al-Zaytoun school and a local clinic run by the agency on February 18, 2014, also took away the lives of over 15 Palestinian schoolchildren.
At the same time, a barrel bomb dropped by the government forces near Teraan School on February 9, 2014, left 40 schoolchildren and four teaching staff members wounded.
In letters emailed to AGPS under such titles as “Accepted here, Rejected there” and “UNRWA. . . Unheeded Cries for Help,” instructors at UNRWA schools in Al-Muzeireeb, in southern Syria, slammed the agency’s “iniquitous” appointment mechanisms.
The teachers wondered about the reasons why their names have not been included in the lists of the newly-tenured instructors.
The instructors further spoke out against the lack of transparency in the tenure process, saying such a privilege has been granted to those who were appointed in 2017 at the expense of those appointed in 2011.
According to the emailed letters, 205 instructors in Damascus branch received such tenure offers, compared to 12 only Deraa. None of such privileges were however granted to those teaching in Al-Muzeireeb, a home to the largest UNRWA schools in Deraa province.
Four UNRWA schools are located in Deraa: Ein Al-Zaytoun, Quds, Teraan, and Al-Abbassiya.
In response to the complaints, UNRWA said there are currently no vacancies available for Deraa teaching staff, in comments that triggered further tension in the area.
A number of UNRWA teachers were killed in onslaughts launched by the government battalions on Al-Muzeireeb.
The list of casualties includes 50-year-old Houriya Ahmad Al-Seid, who died of shrapnel inflicted by a blast near Ein Al-Zaytoun School.
The casualty worked as the head of the nursing staff in a UNRWA medical center in Al-Muzeireeb, in Deraa.
57-year-old Suzan Ghazazwa, an instructor at the UNRWA-run Al-Abbasiya School in Al-Muzeireeb, also died after an artillery shell hit her home in Deraa.
A massacre perpetrated by the regime army on Al-Zaytoun school and a local clinic run by the agency on February 18, 2014, also took away the lives of over 15 Palestinian schoolchildren.
At the same time, a barrel bomb dropped by the government forces near Teraan School on February 9, 2014, left 40 schoolchildren and four teaching staff members wounded.
