Need for better assessment to retain good teachers


  • Letters
  • Tuesday, 27 May 2003

IF education is the bedrock of advancement and progress, then the proposal by Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to create a senior teachers’ scale as an incentive to quality-imbibed teachers is an attractive one to retain the talented ones to continue serving society.  

Teachers Day has come and gone and being a student of many teachers, lecturers and professors in my lifetime, it has been my privilege to meet up with quite a number of outstanding teaching professionals.  

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