Bridging the learning gap

Game for learning: Pupils in a Sarawak school immersed in learning through PPSE.

IT has been a decade since Teach For Malaysia (TFM) placed its first cohort of fellows in schools to bring about change.

Since 2012, TFM – this year’s Merdeka Award recipient under the education and community category – has been placing the country’s most promising leaders as full-time teachers in some of Malaysia’s most high-need schools to combat education inequity through its flagship fellowship programme.