KUALA LUMPUR – The National Union of Teaching Professions (NUTP) has urged the Education Ministry to temporarily postpone several programmes to enable teachers to focus fully on home-based teaching and learning (PdPR).
Its secretary-general Harry Tan Huat Hock said if the programmes are continued, it would only add to the teachers’ burden and cause them to lose focus in implementing PdPR.
He said among the programmes that need to be postponed are School Transformation 2025; the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics curriculum; Performance Dialogue; the second wave of Malaysian Education Quality Standard; and Integrated Assessment for Education Service Officers.
“NUTP welcomes the programmes that have been arranged, but we are of the view that the main focus of education at a time when the country is struggling to curb the spread of Covid-19 is to further improve PdPR with a more structured system,” he said in a statement today.
Tan said that of late, face-to-face learning has often been disrupted, forcing students to study at home.
As such, he said it is important that PdPR is implemented successfully so that no student is left behind in education, especially those in rural areas and from low-income households.
“Educators need to focus fully on PdPR because students have been denied proper education in the last two years due to Covid-19,” he said.
Yesterday, Education Minister Datuk Mohd Radzi Md Jidin said school sessions after the current mid-year break will continue via PdPR for 25 days, according to the respective states’ school calendars. – Bernama, June 7, 2021
