KUALA TERENGGANU: IN AN effort to help teachers focus on their jobs, 8,000 support staff members will be placed in schools to maintain their computers.
Deputy Education Minister Datuk Razali Ismail said the staff would be sent to about 10,000 primary and secondary schools in computer support canada laboratories nationwide.
“The Public Service Department has approved the appointment of the support staff and they will commence their duties during the schooling session early next year,” he told reporters after the Puteri Umno Kuala Terengganu Divison meeting here, recently.
He said the ministry had set up computer laboratories in schools without taking maintenance into account until it became a burden to the teachers.
Now, with the support staff, teachers would be able to give their full attention to teaching, he added.
Razali said the support staff would contribute in reducing the cost of computer maintenance because previously the schools had to use the services of private companies. “The support staff will comprise those with qualifications from polytechnics and skills training institutions, who will help to maintain the computers at no extra cost.”
In another development, he said they were also studying the problem of teachers not being able to focus on teaching because they had to handle clerical work as well.
“The ministry will ask the Public Service Department to approve more support staff, especially clerks, so that teachers will no longer have to do clerical work,” he said. - BERNAMA
source: http://thestar.com.my/metro/story.asp?file=/2008/10/14/southneast/2258414&sec=southneast
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