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Friday, October 17, 2014

Only 10% places allocated for Sabah teachers

Sabah is facing a shortage of teachers due to the limited places available to locals.
guru sabah_1KOTA KINABALU: Sipitang MP Sapawi Ahmad wants the Education Ministry to give priority to Sabahans to enroll in teaching courses in higher learning institutes. He alleged that the allocation for the recent intake of trainee teachers amounted to only 10 per cent of the places available to locals.
Sabah still has a shortage of local teachers after so many decades and has to rely on teachers from the peninsula, he said adding that, “This is due to poor planning by the Education Ministry.”
“We are not being unappreciative of the contributions of teachers from the peninsula serving in Sabah,” he said while in Parliament during the debate on the Budget 2015 speech in support that “charity should begin at home”.
One issue that had caused the shortage of local teachers, said Sapawi was that Sabah often faced a shortage of experienced teachers when those from the peninsula requested for transfers back to their hometowns.
“When they return to their hometown, the schools feel the loss. The replacement teachers give the feeling that they won’t be staying long.
“This is what has been going on for quite some time now and this situation will continue unless drastic measures are taken to increase the number of Sabahan teachers,” he said.
Having local teachers, argued Sapawi, will also help the government to save costs in terms of transferring teachers from the peninsula to Sabah, Sarawak and back, and having to pay regional allowances.
He called for the basic educational facilities such as school buildings, administrative offices and computer labs in Sabah and Sarawak to be upgraded as this is in line with the Malaysian Educational Development Plan 2013-2025.
According to Sapawi, most of the educational administrative offices in Sabah are in dire straits.
For example, he said that the Sipitang District Education Office was constructed in plywood, “probably the only one of its kind in the country”.
He also suggested that the government set up an oil and gas college or university college through Mara or Petronas in Sipitang.
“Sipitang is one of the crucial corridors in the development of Sabah’s economy and also the country following the implementation of the RM 4.9 billion Sabah Ammonia and Urea (SAMUR) project and the construction of the Sipitang Oil and Gas Industrial Park (SOGIP) on 1,600 hectares.
“All these investments need trained local staff,” said Sapawi.

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