Do your legwork, Muhyiddin tells education officers

Muhyiddin said it was no longer feasible to manage education from afar. — File pic

KUALA TERENGGANU, Sept 26 — District Education Officers (PPD) have been urged to go down to the ground to identify problems in their respective areas and solve them.

Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said friendly surveys by the PPD could solve the problem of localised issues and foster a family spirit between them and teachers, headmasters and principals.

“In the context of management, we can no longer plan development just by looking from afar or from above, we need to go down to see and experience the problems that occur, especially in the interiors.

“Merely using forecast results is not enough without efforts to get feedback on the causes and consequences from a delay in solutions which invites a worse outcome,” he said in his speech when opening the 2012 National District Education Officers’ Stabilising Professionalism Convention here, yesterday.

Muhyiddin, who is also education minister, said the vast role that must be given attention by PPD was in order to ensure the success in the implementation of the 2013-2025 Malaysian Education Development Plan. — Bernama