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A HIGH Court judge has urged the Teaching Service Commission (TSC) to consider its position in a lawsuit filed by an acting principal who is challenging a decision to deem her ineligible for promotion to principal (secondary), despite her having more than the minimum academic qualifications.

The suggestion came from Justice Frank Seepersad at a virtual hearing on December 15. Seepersad had previously granted an injunction which restrains the TSC from filling the vacancy of principal (secondary) at the Sixth Form Government Polytechnic Institute, where Nisha Thomas is acting principal.

“At the end of the day, it seems, for whatever reason, whether it was administrative difficulties, as the claimant says, or misplacement of irrelevant information, a mature position should be taken as it relates to how this moves forward.