SAPP worries 80,000 Peninsula teachers coming here and Sarawak.
KOTA KINABALU, 27 May 2011: - Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) felt that the Education Ministry's plan to transfer 80,000 Peninsula teachers to Sabah and Sarawak is worrying.
SAPP Deputy President Datuk Eric Majimbun said it is a saddening scenario when tenth of thousands young Sabahans holding Degrees, STPM and SPM certificates are jobless.
"Those young locals were not even given consideration when they applied for place at teachers training colleges either within or outside the," Eric who is also Sepanggar Member of Parliament said in a statement, here, today.
He was commenting on the Ministry's plan which, was made public recently and were totally rejected by either one of the ruling coalition party member as well as the opposition parties.
On the State Education Department's statement that more than 20 per cent of the teachers placed all over Sabah are outsiders, Eric said the real figure could be higher.
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