Teachers in a fix over postings

Matter of concern: Wee pointing out how Chinese language teachers failed to get posts in line with their training at the press conference. With him is MCA vice-president and former Deputy Higher Education Minister Datuk Dr Hou Kok Chung.

KUALA LUMPUR: Fifty-one teachers are in a quandary after they failed to get posted to secondary schools to teach SPM-level Mandarin which was what they were trained to do.

Instead, the teachers from Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI) were sent to boarding schools, vocational schools and vocational colleges to teach basic Chinese.