Defying the odds: Sarawak to have more locals to be train as teachers to kick start as soon as possible

Defying the odds: Sarawak to have more locals to be train as teachers to kick start as soon as possible

The Education Ministry has been urged to enrol more Sarawakians in the four Teacher Education Institute(IPG) campuses in the state.

The call was supported by PKR Mas Gading comittee Member Willy Tomek, Welfare, Women and Family Development Minister Datuk Fatimah Abdullah and Sarawak Teachers Union President for the enrolment of more Sarawakians into IPG to be trained as teachers to serve schools in the state.

We(Sarawakians) demand that the Education Ministry do justice to Sarawakians by acting on these calls immediately. It was the time to win back a responding to a recent news report that over 1,500 teachers from Peninsular Malaysia posted to Sarawak had applied to be transferred out of the state by June.

Sarawak is unhappy with the apparent lack of concern on the part of the Education Ministry in giving serious consideration to the state government's recommendations. On the same time, we called on the Federal Government to reduce the number personnel from the peninsula in Federal Departments and agencies in the state in order to make room for locals.

We are certain there are more than enough qualified Sarawakians to take over jobs currently held by officers from the peninsula. Capacity Building Graduate (CBG) training alone has reach 2,000 amount trainees up to now, 2012 and what more to says how big is our state comparing to peninsula and why Federal Government still sent more and more peninsulas to us. Why don't just give our locals a chance to be absorbed in this state and we confident they can reach up odd student in rural areas.

Don't just go overboard by saying the integration of the teachers from peninsulas to sarawak will uplift the standard of education but we are mourning because our sarawakians are burdened by the standard of living but federal officers will just come and go and they only worried to be not transferred out of this state and have no focus to teach our children's at schools, colleges and universities. For the sake of 'rakyat' stop pushing the odds of educationist from peninsulas to sarawak and give more allocations to sarawakians to have more jobs opportunity.