Call for multilingual students to be trained as teachers

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HAPPY ANNIVERSARY: Yong (second left) with Batu Kawah assemblyman Tan Joo Phoi (second right) and others during the cake-cutting ceremony. — Photo by Jude Lee

KUCHING: Multilingualstudents have been called on to enrol in the teachertraining scheme to help address the shortage of Chinese language teachers.

Deputy Works Minister Datuk Yong Khoon Seng suggested the SJK ChungHua Batu Kawah alumni association could play a role in encouraging such studentsto get proper training and qualifications to serve in Chinese-medium primary schools.

“Besides, the alumni association can also play arole to assist temporary appointed teachers to take up the training scheme so that they emerge as qualified teachers,” he said at theassociation’s 30th anniversary dinner on New Year’s Eve.

Yong, who is also Stampin Member of Parliament, said the school’s alumni association could offer incentives or allowances for linguistically talented individuals to complete the training course.

By so doing, he said more capable teachers would be produced to not only help solve the shortage of teachers but also better guide future generations.

He was pleased that the association had, over the   years, contributed tremendously towards the infrastructure development of the school as well as organised various activitiesto enhance pupils’ knowledge outside the classroom.

“Thanks to the alumni association, the school is what it is today. Moreover, the school has also brought out a pool of professionals inthe various disciplines to give back to the society,” said Yong.

He also pledged an RM100,000 government allocation to help the school upgrade its basketball court.