KUCHING: The Education Ministry’s plan requiring experienced teachers who
have not had a rural stint to be posted to rural schools for three to five years
is not going down well with teachers’ unions in Sabah and Sarawak.
Teachers Union Association for Sabah and Sarawak joint committee chairman
William Ghani Bina wants the ministry to reconsider the plan.
“Experienced teachers are normally older and married with children. The
ministry should be careful not to separate them from their spouse and children,”
he said.
Education Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said in Sabah on Friday that the
plan was part of a new policy being drafted by the ministry for a more
transparent and equitable approach in postings, transfers and promotions.
Ghani, who is also Sarawak Teachers’ Union president, said the government
might lose some experienced teachers if the new policy was implemented.
He said as new graduate teachers were mostly young, single and without family
commitment, it was best for them to be posted to rural schools.
After the stint, he said, they should be considered for transfer to schools
nearer to their home town.
“Young graduate teachers are equipped with knowledge in latest technologies
which they could share with the experienced teachers in rural schools.
In return, they could learn other things from these experienced teachers,”
added Ghani.
To implement the new policy, Muhyiddin said the ministry was compiling a
comprehensive database of the country’s 380,000 teachers, which included their
marital status, the number of children they had, house ownership and the
duration of their current postings.
Muhyiddin, also Deputy Prime Minister, said rural postings should no longer
be viewed as being merely for new graduate teachers.
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