Let State Education Dept interview grads: Jame
Published on: Monday, October 12, 2015
Kota Kinabalu: The State Education Department should be empowered to conduct interviews for local graduates interested to become teachers, said State Education Director Datuk Jame Alip.He said such delegation of power from the central authority to the department here was necessary because it knows the areas, especially in the interior and remote regions, which are in need of teachers."The collection of data has ended on Saturday (Oct 10) and we will see the needs and submit them to the Education Service Commission," he said.
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Jame said this to reporters after officiating a Peace Exhibition of 'Everything You Treasure – For a World Free From Nuclear Weapons' held at Soka Gakkai Malaysia Sabah Cultural Centre along Tuaran Bypass, here, Sunday.He was commenting on the State-level "90:10 Data Collection Initiative" on unemployed graduates in the State (who have not yet received any offer from the Human Resource Management Division of the Education Ministry).On Oct 7, Jame was reported as saying that the initiative was in line with a move to ensure that within the next three years, 90 per cent of the teachers in Sabah would be Sabahans.By involving the department here to conduct the interviews, he said it would be able to select and identify qualified local graduates who are suitable to be posted in areas such as the remote interior.
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"All this while, the Commission and Education Ministry have been selecting and interviewing those qualified candidates, while the Education Department here handles the posting of teachers."I believe it is time that the State Education Department is given the power to select and pick qualified ones to become teachers in the State as well as to send them to undergo teaching courses.
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"For instance, if the candidate hails from the interior, then we will train him or her for interior areas that are in need of teachers because it is not easy to have suitable candidates to be posted to those areas," he said. He assured that the department would not compromise on the quality of teachers.On those Sabahan teachers who apply to return here and more than 2,000 peninsula teachers presently based in Sabah have applied for transfer back to their homes, he said not all applications would be approved as they would look into necessity and existing options. "We will look at the data that we have collected and we would see how the necessity for teachers in some areas could be filled as well as looking into the circumstances."If the Islamic Education and Science teachers applied to return home, but there is a shortage of teachers in those two subjects in their respective schools or areas, then their applications will most likely not be approved."The same thing goes if there is enough supply of Bahasa Melayu and Geography teachers. It is likely that we will not take in teachers for those two subjects."But what we need are counsellors and teachers for Science subjects as there is a shortage of such teachers in Sabah," Jame said.Earlier, he said the department will be working together with SGM Sabah branch here to promote the campaign of Peace Exhibition of 'Everything You Treasure – For a World Free From Nuclear weapons' to be displayed in schools. He said such exhibition that contains many valuable information would benefit the students to gain new knowledge and use them in their exams if there were questions on such issue.At the same time, Jame called on teachers to include the peace message and disseminate information on the negative consequences of nuclear weapons during their teaching session.For example, he said the Science teachers including those teaching Chemistry and Physics could include the dangerous effect of abusing the mixture of chemicals to could create explosion and endanger people's lives.He said the teachers must also emphasis on using mixture of chemicals for good cause that bring benefits to people.Stay up-to-date by following Daily Express’s Telegram channel.
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