Hire 60 ‘forgotten’ teachers, ministry urged

Compiled by C. ARUNO, SIRA HABIBU and R. ARAVINTHAN

EDUCATIONIST groups Dong Zong and Jiao Zong are urging the Education Ministry to hire some 60 qualified teachers who graduated from last year’s holiday teacher training programme (Program Diploma Perguruan Malaysia –Kursus Dalam Cuti) in a bid to address the nationwide shortage of teachers at SJKCs, reports Sin Chew Daily.

Jiao Zong president Ong Chiow Chuen said that there were around 310 teachers who graduated from the programme in August last year, out of which 250 had been interviewed by the Education Service Commission and officially started serving as full-fledged teachers in June this year.