Dept doing data collection exercise, not recruitment – Fatimah
KUCHING:
The state Education Department is carrying out a data collection
exercise and not recruitment, Welfare, Women and Family Development
Minister Datuk Fatimah Abdullah clarified.
Fatimah, who has been entrusted to hold a watching brief on education for Sarawak, said the exercise had been misunderstood by many who thronged the department to submit their documents.
However, she said the response had been overwhelming.
“We are at the stage of looking into the supply of local teachers so that we can plan accordingly to achieve Initiative 90:10. Screening will be done.
On Oct 26, we will call a press conference on our Action Plan.
“Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Adenan Satem has the political will to initiate changes that are good for the people of Sarawak. He is very determined and he walks the talk. We are behind him in this important matter,” Fatimah told The Borneo Post yesterday.
The Education Department’s Initiative 90:10 is an attempt to reach a posting ratio of nine local teachers to one from outside the state by 2018 following Adenan’s request for devolution of power from federal to state in the area of education. Presently, the ratio of local teachers to those outside the state is 70:30.
In order not to compromise on the state’s education standard, she stressed that only those meeting the requirements were trained in the subject options needed by the department and with an interest or passion in teaching would be recruited to fulfil the target.
“We will disclose our Action Plan on Oct 26. By then, we will have a clearer picture on how many more to recruit, teachers with what subject options to recruit and so on,” said Fatimah.
Meanwhile, many people rushed to the Education Department headquarters here yesterday thinking that it was a recruitment exercise. One of them was The Borneo Post reader who only wanted to be known as Thomas, 51.
Thomas, whose daughter is a graduate from Unitar (Universiti Tun Abdul Razak), said he was informed by his friends that Education Department was recruiting teachers, which prompted him to submit the documents for his daughter.
“My daughter graduated in 2013 with a Second Upper Class Bachelor in Education, majoring in English. But until now, she is still doing part time jobs because she cannot get any teaching jobs.”
He said when he reached the Education Department at 9.30am it was crowded with graduates who tried to register with the department, thinking that it was a recruitment exercise.
“There were so many people trying to submit their documents and there were six education officers handling all the submissions. There might have been a few hundred of them as the crowd reached as far as the entrance of the department. Even the car parks were filled up.”
Thomas was very puzzled as to why the state had claimed there were not enough local teachers when there were many trained teachers like his daughter who had not been recruited despite her good results.
“I just hope those who have registered in this exercise will be given a job soon,” said Thomas.
Apart from the Education Department, the Kuching Resident’s Office which houses the district office was also crowded by those who wanted their documents certified before submitting them to the former. Charlene, 22, a second year student from Open University was one of them.
She was there at about 10am and saw many people queuing up for their documents to be certified and was at the Education Department headquarters here from 11am to 12 noon.
“I am now doing the programme of Teaching English as Second Language. I submitted my documents and expect to get a job,” said Charlene.
Fatimah, who has been entrusted to hold a watching brief on education for Sarawak, said the exercise had been misunderstood by many who thronged the department to submit their documents.
However, she said the response had been overwhelming.
“We are at the stage of looking into the supply of local teachers so that we can plan accordingly to achieve Initiative 90:10. Screening will be done.
On Oct 26, we will call a press conference on our Action Plan.
“Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Adenan Satem has the political will to initiate changes that are good for the people of Sarawak. He is very determined and he walks the talk. We are behind him in this important matter,” Fatimah told The Borneo Post yesterday.
The Education Department’s Initiative 90:10 is an attempt to reach a posting ratio of nine local teachers to one from outside the state by 2018 following Adenan’s request for devolution of power from federal to state in the area of education. Presently, the ratio of local teachers to those outside the state is 70:30.
In order not to compromise on the state’s education standard, she stressed that only those meeting the requirements were trained in the subject options needed by the department and with an interest or passion in teaching would be recruited to fulfil the target.
“We will disclose our Action Plan on Oct 26. By then, we will have a clearer picture on how many more to recruit, teachers with what subject options to recruit and so on,” said Fatimah.
Meanwhile, many people rushed to the Education Department headquarters here yesterday thinking that it was a recruitment exercise. One of them was The Borneo Post reader who only wanted to be known as Thomas, 51.
Thomas, whose daughter is a graduate from Unitar (Universiti Tun Abdul Razak), said he was informed by his friends that Education Department was recruiting teachers, which prompted him to submit the documents for his daughter.
“My daughter graduated in 2013 with a Second Upper Class Bachelor in Education, majoring in English. But until now, she is still doing part time jobs because she cannot get any teaching jobs.”
He said when he reached the Education Department at 9.30am it was crowded with graduates who tried to register with the department, thinking that it was a recruitment exercise.
“There were so many people trying to submit their documents and there were six education officers handling all the submissions. There might have been a few hundred of them as the crowd reached as far as the entrance of the department. Even the car parks were filled up.”
Thomas was very puzzled as to why the state had claimed there were not enough local teachers when there were many trained teachers like his daughter who had not been recruited despite her good results.
“I just hope those who have registered in this exercise will be given a job soon,” said Thomas.
Apart from the Education Department, the Kuching Resident’s Office which houses the district office was also crowded by those who wanted their documents certified before submitting them to the former. Charlene, 22, a second year student from Open University was one of them.
She was there at about 10am and saw many people queuing up for their documents to be certified and was at the Education Department headquarters here from 11am to 12 noon.
“I am now doing the programme of Teaching English as Second Language. I submitted my documents and expect to get a job,” said Charlene.
Read more: http://www.theborneopost.com/2015/10/13/dept-doing-data-collection-exercise-not-recruitment-fatimah/#ixzz3oQ6AVHXn
My comments:
The data collection exercise will tell the education department or Fatimah that Sarawak actually have more than enough people who are eager and also have the passion to take up the teaching posts.
The figure should be able to tell all. Please prioritise the postings for Sarawakians. Based on my knowledge, we have enough graduates to fill up all the teaching posts, believe me. We don't need 3 years to solve the problem.
We don't have the problem but the retrenchment of the teachers from Malaya Peninsular might be a problem to the Federal government to find enough teaching posts to these retrenched teachers from Sarawak.
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