KUALA LUMPUR: The halt in the hiring of temporary Pupils’ Own Language (POL) teachers as a cost-cutting measure by the Education Ministry is unreasonable because some students will still take language papers for their examinations, said Deputy Education Minister P. Kamalanathan.
“It involves several languages such as Mandarin, Punjabi, Tamil, and some local dialects from Sabah and Sarawak. The classes must go on,” he said.
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