{"id":6023,"date":"2013-09-12T16:39:21","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T08:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=6023"},"modified":"2013-09-12T16:39:21","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T08:39:21","slug":"dont-prolong-the-plight-of-the-jobless-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/dont-prolong-the-plight-of-the-jobless-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t prolong the plight of the jobless teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Teresa Kok<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Although 460 teachers have completed the 18 months full time DPLI \u2013 SR ( Diploma Perguruan Lepasan Ijazah \u2013 Sekolah Rendah ) programme\u00a0on May 23<\/a>\u00a0this year, they have yet to be assigned any teaching post in the national type Chinese primary schools ( SJK C- sekolah rendah jenis kebangsaan\u00a0\u00a0Cina) .<\/p>\n

This is baffling because while these qualified teachers remain jobless, SJKC continues to face the problem of lack of qualified teachers.\u00a0How could the Education Ministry allow such a situation to occur and prolong till today?<\/p>\n

Some of these teachers have complained to DAP that they had stopped teaching as untrained temporary teachers (GSTT \u2013Guru Sandaran Tidak Ter latih) in SJKC and taken up the programme in the hope to become qualified teachers, only to face an uncertain future after graduation.<\/p>\n

Many are now facing financial burden.\u00a0Yet their complaint includes the sad fact that they have not even been called for interview by the Suruhanjaya Perkhidmatan Pelajaran.\u00a0As the DPLI \u2013 SR programme is one of the formulae implemented to address the problem of teacher shortage in SJKC, there is no reason for such delay in posting the teachers given the fact that the shortage exists in these schools.<\/p>\n

It was reported last week that the deputy education minister Datuk Mary Yap has remarked that these teachers should go and find jobs and not just wait to be posted. She was quoted to have also said that in their contract with the authority, there is no obligation for the government to find jobs for them.<\/p>\n

Yap has made very unfair remarks which are akin to rubbing salt in the wounds.\u00a0She has failed to understand that these teachers do not choose to wait at home or to be jobless.\u00a0These teachers have signed a two year service contract with the Ministry and how does Yap expect any private school to employ them?<\/p>\n

If the Education Ministry continues to prolong the teachers\u2019 plight, I shall bring up the issue in the Parliament meeting scheduled to begin\u00a0on September 23.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Teresa Kok Although 460 teachers have completed the 18 months full time DPLI \u2013 SR ( Diploma Perguruan Lepasan Ijazah \u2013 Sekolah Rendah ) programme\u00a0on May 23\u00a0this year, they have yet to be assigned any teaching post in the national type Chinese primary schools ( SJK C- sekolah rendah jenis kebangsaan\u00a0\u00a0Cina) . This is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6025,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6023\/revisions\/6025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}