Need for better assessment to retain good teachers

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.