Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email Makkal Osai reported that the Education Ministry had been urged to fill up the shortage of Tamil school teachers throughout the country.
The paper quoted National Union of Teaching Profession secretary-general Lok Yim Pheng as saying that the union had received many complaints that for the coming school year, there will be a shortage of up to 400 teachers in Tamil schools.
She said that the 2006-2010 Educational Blueprint had stressed that the standard of education would be raised in all primary schools regardless of whether it was a religious, national, Tamil or Chinese school.
