DAP Sarawak chairman Chong Chieng Jen brands the Education Ministry's solution for shortage of teachers in Sabah and Sarawak as insincere. – The Malaysian Insider pic, February 17, 2015.DAP Sarawak today accused Second Education Minister Datuk Seri Idris Jusoh of not being sincere in his effort to resolve the shortage of trained teachers in Sabah and Sarawak.State party chairman Chong Chieng Jen said Idris's announcement in Besut yesterday to take in more trainee teachers from Sabah and Sarawak beginning next year has been brushed off as nothing more than “to pacify the anger of Sarawak".He said that the statement was “a typical bureaucratic answer which will not solve the problem" but merely to pacify anger.The Bandar Kuching MP said the shortage of trained Sarawakian teachers in the state was a creation of the Barisan Nasional (BN).Two key policy changes in 2012 had contributed to the problem, he said, mainly the limiting of intake of Sarawak Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) leavers for the bachelor of education programme and abolishing the postgraduate teaching course.“Since 2012, it has been the BN government's policy that all teachers for government or government-aided schools must go through the bachelor of education programme – a five-and-a-half-year course and is only open to SPM leavers.“Prior to 2012, university graduates with bachelor's degrees were allowed to attend the postgraduate teaching course which is a year-and-half course before they are qualified to be teachers in government and government-aided schools.“This course was abolished in 2012 and since then, there are no more courses for graduates to be trained to be qualified teachers.“Therefore, even assuming that Idris means what he says (increase the intake of Sarawak teachers), it will still take another six years before this first batch of increased intake trainees are qualified to teach."He said the teachers sent by the Education Ministry over the last few years to teach in Sarawak's rural schools where the majority, if not all, of the students are Christians had contributed to a culture clash.“This clash of culture between the west Malaysian Muslims teachers and the local Christian students and their parents has caused great concern among the communities in the rural areas."To counter further influx, Chong proposed Sarawakians who have a bachelor in education to be immediately be engaged as teachers as a short-term plan while those who are graduates with bachelor degrees, but not in education, be taken in for the postgraduate teaching course as a long-term plan.“Shorten the course to nine months and train these graduates to be teachers," Chong said.He said if the proposals were adopted, the problem of the shortage of local Sarawakian teachers will be solved by end of this year.Idris reportedly said the ministry would set targets to ensure the number recruited would be able to meet the needs for the future of education in Sabah and Sarawak.He said the ministry had set the condition that to be trainee teachers, the candidates in the peninsula must have at least 7As in the SPM examination and at least 5As for those from Sabah and Sarawak. – February 17, 2015.
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