THE ATTITUDE OF IN-SERVICE TEACHERS TOWARD ACQUIRING HIGHER QUALIFICATION

Survey was conducted to analyze attitude of in-service teachers towards acquiring higher qualification. Teachers of schools, colleges & universities of 2-divisional headquarters of southern Punjab (Bahawalpur & Multan) constituted the population of the study. Sample consisted of 224 in-service teachers of schools, colleges & universities. To collect relevant information a questionnaire and observation sheet was used. The factor analysis with varimax rotation yielded seven major factors; departmental restrictions, the financial benefit, family responsibilities, departmental facilities,job security, teaching quality and quality of the educational institutions. The data was analyzed with independent t-test and one way ANOVA. It was concluded that 79.8% teachers faced departmental restriction, 77.5% faced financial constraints, 82% faced family responsibilities, only 42.05% were facilitated by department, 79.33% felt job security after higher education, 75.36% responded teaching quality was improved while 51.4% responded quality of educational institutions improved due to highly qualified teachers. Results provides significant information in decising about the relationships and reaching conclusion along with offering certain recommendations to policy makers for revisiting their polities and future researcher to conduct research from new dimensions.