{"id":2221,"date":"2008-07-21T12:10:48","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T04:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/tamil-schools\/2008\/07\/21\/15-percent-tamil-school-teachers-expected-to-be-graduates-by-2010\/"},"modified":"2008-07-21T12:11:46","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T04:11:46","slug":"15-percent-tamil-school-teachers-expected-to-be-graduates-by-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/tamil-schools\/2008\/07\/21\/15-percent-tamil-school-teachers-expected-to-be-graduates-by-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"15 percent Tamil school teachers expected to be graduates by 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>15 percent of the Tamil school teachers are <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2008\/7\/21\/nation\/21876459&amp;sec=nation\">expected<\/a> to be graduates by 2010, says Malaysian Tamil Schools Organisation chief organiser S. Baskaran. The 15% is about 1200 teachers. At present, there are about 8,000 Tamil schoolteachers and only 10% are graduates. The aim should be to increase this percentage to about 100% by 2020 &#8211; either via part time degree program or recruiting teachers with degree.<\/p>\n<p>Two of my sister in laws are doing their degree part-time via OUM, both starting this year. Another relative also got a place to pursue degree part time via OUM.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps this opportunity will encourage more people to take up teaching. As it is, there are <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/tamil-schools\/2008\/04\/19\/less-tamil-teachers-in-training\/\">less people applying<\/a> for Tamil in teachers training colleges.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>15 percent of the Tamil school teachers are expected to be graduates by 2010, says Malaysian Tamil Schools Organisation chief organiser S. Baskaran. The 15% is about 1200 teachers. At present, there are about 8,000 Tamil schoolteachers and only 10% are graduates. The aim should be to increase this percentage to about 100% by 2020 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-2221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tamil-schools","tag-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}