KUALA LUMPUR – The mindset of perceiving visits by officers from District Education Offices (PPD) to schools as mainly to find faults should be changed, said Senior Education Minister Datuk Radzi Jidin.
Instead, he said, the PPD should be regarded as a friend to help improve the schools.
In a post on his official Facebook, Radzi said as an institution closest to the school, PPD should be the agent responsible to disseminate and explain the national education policy, planning and the education direction of the ministry to the target groups, comprising teachers, schools and parents.
“PPD officers must always go to schools to identify problems and find immediate solutions to solve them. They must be a facilitator between the school and JPN (State Education Department) as well as the ministry if the matter cannot be resolved at the PPD level.
“Good relationship between the PPD, school administrators and teachers will help the smooth implementation of every policy, planning and educational transformation outlined by the ministry,” he added in the post.
Radzi said he emphasised this during his meeting with 146 PPD officers from Perlis, Kedah, Penang, Kelantan, Terengganu, Kuala Lumpur, Sabah and Labuan – who participated in the second series of the PPD Convention at the Aminuddin Baki Institute, Bandar Enstek, Negri Sembilan last night.
The convention is a follow-up of the first convention held last week which involved 142 PPD officers from Johor, Melaka, Negeri Sembilan, Selangor, Putrajaya, Pahang and Sarawak.
Radzi said to ensure the PPD officers could carry out their responsibilities efficiently and to the optimum, the ministry always strived to strengthen the delivery system so that accurate information could be channelled to JPN, PPD and schools.
“With the experience and good relations that exist between PPD, schools and teachers, I am confident that efforts to strengthen the role of PPD officers can be done in line with the transformation of education outlined by the ministry,” he said. – Bernama, July 22, 2022
