One-off teacher recruitment at interview stage
Published on: Tuesday, October 05, 2021
By: Bernama
KUCHING: The one-off recruitment exercise to overcome the shortage of teachers in Johor, Sabah and Sarawak is still at the interview stage, said Deputy Education Minister ll Datuk Mohamad Alamin.He, however, said with the intake of 18,000 new teachers, the prolonged shortage of teachers over the past few years will be overcome.ADVERTISEMENT
“The Ministry will give priority to Sabah and Sarawak. Aside the two states, Johor is also experiencing a shortage of teachers,” he said told a media conference after a working visit to Sekolah Kebangsaan Pendidikan Khas Matang Jaya, here, Monday.
At the Dewan Rakyat sitting last week, Senior Education Minister Datuk Dr Mohd Radzi Md Jidin said based on MOE data, there were 21,564 vacancies for teachers nationwide as of Sept 19.
Meanwhile, Sarawak Education Department (JPNS) Director Dr Norisah Suhaili said of the total 39,000 teachers in the State, less than one per cent have yet to receive Covid-19 vaccination.
“There are teachers who refused to be vaccinated for health and religious reasons while the rest said they were still unprepared. The Ministry will continue to call them up for face-to-face meetings,” she added.ADVERTISEMENT
Meanwhile, the reluctance of a group of teachers to receive the Covid-19 vaccine at the moment has slightly affected the teaching and learning process in schools, said Senior Education Minister Datuk Dr Radzi Jidin.
He said although their number was only around 2,000 out of the total of about 415,000 teachers in the country, it still affected administration at the schools.
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“…the number is very small but as there are some of such teachers teaching the same subject, so how to teach (the subject)?
“There are also such teachers who are the only ones teaching certain subjects, so these schools will have no teachers for these subjects,” he told reporters after viewing the first day of school at Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan (SMK) Tunku Kurshiah, Kuala Pilah, Monday.
Radzi said the decision to transfer the unvaccinated teachers to other places was not a threat but it involved the schools’ administration, while the Public Service Department required civil servants to be vaccinated before Nov 1.Stay up-to-date by following Daily Express’s Telegram channel.
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Meanwhile, he said the Education Ministry was still studying the proposal to change the start of the school session from January to March and making next year’s session as a guideline.
He added that the Ministry also took into consideration the engagement with the stakeholders, including parents and teachers who gave positive feedback, including on the managing of examinations during the monsoon season in some states.