Why deprive 200 grads teaching jobs because of system glitch, asks Teo

 

The 200 graduates had passed an interview last year to join a special intake of teachers in April.

PETALING JAYA: The education ministry should take a serious look at the nearly 200 graduates who were erroneously dropped from a teachers’ intake for next month, said Kulai MP Teo Nie Ching.

The group passed an interview last year for a special intake of 18,000 teachers for April, but their applications were deemed “overlooked” by the Education Service Commission (SPP) following a system glitch.

Teo, a former deputy education minister, told the Dewan Rakyat today that if education minister Radzi Jidin was serious about the graduates’ plight, the ministry could hold a meeting with the commission and the group’s representatives to resolve the issue.

“It is not appropriate for the ministry to wash its hands of the matter and just ask SPP to answer,” she said.

“The problem is that SPP is tasked with interviewing these education graduates before they can become teachers under the ministry.”

Education ministry officials previously told FMT the issue was under SPP, and not the ministry, as it was in charge of appointing the teachers once they passed the interview.

On March 11, deputy education minister Mohamad Alamin admitted that there was a “glitch” in the recruitment system which left the candidates out.

Teo said she and the graduates involved would consider sending a second memorandum to the education ministry if Radzi did not comment on the issue at the Dewan Rakyat tomorrow.

She said the education ministry and SPP had yet to reply to the first memorandum sent on March 7. - FMT