Program transformasi Najib yang 'blur' - Nak ambil cikgu dari India sedangkan ribuan graduan2 TESL tempatan masih menggangur...

KEADILAN gesa kerajaan Umno BN batalkan hasrat pengambilan guru Bahasa Inggeris dari India, sebaliknya mengutamakan guru lepasan Ijazah Sarjana Muda Pendidikan (ISMP) dalam negara yang masih menganggur.

Pengarah Komunikasi, Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad berkata, KEADILAN sokong usaha memperbaiki penguasaan Bahasa Inggeris di kalangan pelajar, namun mempersoal kewajaran kaedah yang diumum Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Razak.
“Najib tidak memberi alasan kukuh mengapa guru dari India akan memberi nilai tambah dalam sistem pendidikan negara.

“Lebih-lebih lagi, kerajaan wajar mengambil graduan TESL (Mengajar Bahasa Inggeris Sebagai Bahasa Kedua) tempatan. Ramai graduan ISMP khususnya dari Institut Pengajian Tinggi Swasta (IPTS) tidak menerima tawaran pekerjaan di sekolah kebangsaan.

“Sedangkan, pada Mac 2012, Timbalan Menteri Pelajaran, Datuk Puad Zarkashi sahkan 7,000 graduan ISMP belum diberi tawaran kerja,” katanya pada sidang media di ibu pejabat parti hari ini.

Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (Adun) Seri Setia itu berkata, pengambilan guru dari India hanya akan mengeruhkan lagi keadaan.

“(Sebaliknya) kerajaan mesti menimbangkan untuk ambil lebih ramai graduan ISMP yang berkebolehan bagi menambah bilangan guru di sekolah kebangsaaan, lantas menurunkan nisbah pelajar-guru. Hari ini nisbah masih sekitar 40 pelajar satu kelas, iaitu kadar yang masih lagi tinggi,” jelas Nik Nazmi.

20 Disember lalu, Najib ketika lawatannya di India berkata, Malaysia berminat mangambil guru Bahasa Inggeris dari negara itu.

Kerajaan sebelum ini mengambil guru dari Amerika Syarikat dan ditempatkan di beberapa sekolah terpilih sebagai Pembantu Guru Bahasa Inggeris (ETA).

Mahasiswa KEADILAN hantar memo

Mahasiswa KEADILAN akan hantar memorandum kepada Kementerian Pendidikan bagi menuntut masalah pengangguran graduan ISMP diselesaikan.

“Dalam masa terdekat, kita rancang jumpa Kementerian Pendidikan untuk kita sampaikan memorandum. Kita tunggu respon dari Kementerian untuk gerak kerja seterusnya,” kata Presidennya, Haziq Abd Aziz dalam sidang media sama.

Katanya, masalah ini bukan disebabkan silibus atau kebolehan graduan ISMP, tetapi dasar pengambilan Kementerian Pendidikan yang sama sekali mendiskriminasi graduan dengan tidak membuka permohonan kepada mereka.-keadilandaily

'Nak import dari India, graduan ISMP menganggur'

Hire local unemployed grads, not teachers from India...

PKR today criticised the Putrajaya’s plan earlier this month to hire Indian nationals to teach Malaysian students English, urging the government to solve local teachers’ placement problems first.

“Up until today, there are still heaps of TESL (Teaching English as second language) graduates and Bachelors of Education (BEd) students who have yet to obtain teaching jobs,” PKR communication director Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad(left) told a press conference here.

“Putrajaya should have solved this crisis of these graduates first before deciding to import teachers from India.”

The government had been sponsoring BEd students who major in TESL since 2005, even sending them to universities abroad, especially in Australia and New Zealand, in a previous plan to improve the quality of local English teachers.

Nik Nazmi questioned the motives behind the plan, which he claimed is not the best way to solve the shortage of English teachers and improve language proficiency among Malaysian students.

“Importing English teachers from India will not add any value towards our education system.

“So, what is Putrajaya’s excuse to do so?”

According to the Seri Setia state assemblyman, there are many complaints from government-sponsored TESL graduates who are still not placed in any schools after six months waiting.

“These graduates find it hard to get a teaching job, they have to resort to become insurance agents, tuition teachers, and so on.”

Nik Nazmi also referred to a statement by Deputy Minister of Education Dr Mohd Puad Zarkashi who confirmed last March that 7,000 BEd graduates were still not offered placements.

An unofficial number by Gabungan Guru ISMP Malaysia (GGIM), a pressure group made of over 3,600 unemployed BEd graduates, put the number of unemployed teachers at 20,000.

 

Prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak had mooted the idea of importing teachers from India after meeting his counterpart Manmohan Singh earlier this month.

The plan has since received resistance from educators and education reform group Parent Action Group for Education (PAGE), who voiced concern over what they saw as a short-term solution which would unlikely benefit a multiracial class whose learning could be further hampered by coaches speaking in an unfamiliar accent.

Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin gave his assurance that the Education Ministry will thoroughly study the proposed recruitment to ensure it meets the country’s education needs, in response to the National Union of the Teaching Profession’s call for an in-depth analysis to be carried out before rolling out the scheme.

“We will consider whether the English language teachers from India had Cambridge or Oxford (university) education and whether they can teach (the subject) well,” Muhyiddin who is also education minister, was reported by state news agency Bernama.

Last year, Malaysia started a negotiation with the US government to bring volunteer teachers under the Peace Corps programme, and 75 English Teaching Assistants (ETAs) have been assigned since this year.

The ETAs came under the Fulbright English Teacher Assistantship programme jointly administered by the Malaysian-American Commission on Educational Exchange (MACEE) and the Ministry of Education.- malaysian insider

 

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