According to a notification issued by the department’s equivalence committee, a BS in Mathematics will now be recognised as a 16-year academic qualification for the purpose of promotions.

It is also clarified that teachers holding a two-year MSc in Computational Mathematics and those with a two-year MSc in Applied or Pure Mathematics will also be eligible for promotion.

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Previously, teachers that specialised in mathematics were often excluded from the departmental promotion lists, which caused many teachers to wait for years for their advancement.

In order to ensure that there is equal treatment across all disciplines, Kashif Shehzad, Provincial President of the Punjab Teachers Union (PTU), encouraged the government to extend the same recognition to BS degree holders in other subjects.