The Parliamentary Administrative Committee, headed by Dr. Ali Al-Tarawneh, renewed its demand to extend the validity of the competitive examination for candidates for appointment to the Ministry of Education in 2019 until 2023, as it will end next February.

Tarawneh, while chairing a meeting of the committee, today, Wednesday, in the presence of the President of the Civil Service Bureau Sameh Al-Nasser and the Director of the Human Resources Department at the Ministry of Education Abdullah Al-Zoubi, and representatives of that category, called for the necessity of appointing these people due to the presence of financial allocations for them in accordance with the budget supplement, which was recently approved by the Ministry of Education. before the House of Representatives.

Al-Tarawneh pointed out that this is the fifth meeting held for this purpose, but without reaching a comprehensive agreement to end the suffering of this group, considering that this matter is an evasion of responsibility, and contradicts the principle of partnership between MPs and the government.

He said: As long as the applicant for employment took the exam and succeeded in it, why should the exam be repeated again? He demanded that the interview requirement not be applied to graduates who successfully passed the competitive exam in 2019, for the purpose of appointment, as they passed the exam before the issuance of the last civil service system.

While Al-Tarawneh inquired about the remaining number of successful candidates in the 2019 competitive examination who had not been appointed, he was surprised by the procedures for appointing 500 new people, most of whom are 2020 graduates.

He also called for the appointment of scholarship students at the expense of the Ministry of Education, whose number is about 155, as they are entitled, calling for filling vacancies from those who have succeeded in the competitive examination and on scholarships, and not from additional education.

Al-Tarawneh stressed the importance of consolidating the principle of justice and equity, as Jordanians, under the constitution, are equal in rights and duties, and everyone should take their chance with justice.

For their part, the representatives demanded the attendance to extend the validity of the competitive examination for candidates for appointment to “Education” 2019, and not to apply the interview requirement to this batch.

They called for appointing this batch as a priority, saying that it is not permissible to solve the problem of a citizen at the expense of another citizen and they should not be held responsible for the decision to stop the appointment during the Corona virus crisis.

The deputies raised a number of observations related to the appointment at the expense of additional education, the appointment of scholarships, the lack of specializations, and the filling of vacancies through hiring and satisfactorily licensed teachers for a long time, calling for a review of the basis for appointment, in order to achieve equity and justice among all.

In turn, Al-Nasser indicated that there are about 3,000 people who were appointed for appointment after they completed all the procedures, and without undergoing a personal interview, because the procedures for their appointment took place before the issuance of the civil service system No. 9 for the year 2020. He said that the competitive examination in all countries of the world has a specific time period, He explained that those who succeeded in “Competitiveness 2019” will have an effective exam period until February 2022.

Al-Nasser continued, “If any new vacancies are received from the “Education”, they will be filled from the successful candidates in the competitive statements, as they will be subject to a personal interview, since the appointment procedures will be carried out according to the new service system, which includes the interview condition.”

He stressed that the Bureau will not resort to stockpiles as long as there are successful candidates in the competitive exams at the same level as the required vacancies, as they are eligible.

In response to the demands of the deputies, Al-Nasser indicated that in the coming period (i.e., before the expiry of the competitive exam 2019), he will study the possibility of extending the validity of that exam.

Regarding the appointment at the expense of additional education, Al-Nasser stressed the importance of reducing the appointment on additional education so that vacancies would be filled from the Bureau’s stock if financial allocations were available for that.

In response to the deputies’ inquiries about the procedures for appointing 500 new people, Al-Nasser explained that the Ministry of Education requested new vacancies for the “Al-Quwaismeh and Marka districts” in the capital, and they were subjected to exams and interviews because there were no successful candidates in the Diwan’s inventory for these two areas of specialization: sociology, history, geography and Arabic. for males.

With regard to appointing the remaining number of scholarship students at the expense of “Education”, Al-Nasser stated that they will be dealt with according to the committee formed by the “Civil Service” and “Education” for this purpose and according to the mechanism agreed upon in the committee.

For his part, Al-Zoubi answered the deputies’ inquiries, explaining that sick cases are subject to instructions and regulations, and their suspension from work depends on higher medical committees, which requires appointment to “additional education.”

He pointed out that those appointments, which were announced recently, came due to the lack of specializations in the service bureau inventory for those regions.

As for filling vacancies through “licensing”, between Al-Nasser and Al-Zoubi, this is done in the absence of a stock of successful candidates in the same targeted governorates.

For their part, representatives of the graduates who passed “Competitive 2019” demanded that they be appointed immediately and at once in light of the issuance of a budget appendix that includes allocations for them and an extension of the validity of the exam like others, pointing out that the 2018 batch was extended by no less than an additional year and a half.

They also demanded the continuity of appointments and the provision of financial allocations for appointment due to the acute shortage so that vacancies are filled at the expense of additional education.

They called for them not to be subject to a personal interview, as they passed the exam before the issuance of the new civil service system in 2020, which requires the interview, noting that their peers passed the exam with them, and completed the appointment procedures without undergoing the interview.