Irian Jaya
lacks qualified
teachers
JAYAPURA,
Irian Jaya: Puncak Jaya regency's dream of quality education will not come true
in the foreseeable future because the local teacher training institute has
failed to produce qualified teachers, an official said on Tuesday.
The regency established the institute in 1999 after migrant
teachers fled the regency in the early 1990s when they were threatened by
secessionist activists and rebels.
The institute, which offers a two-year course on elementary
school teaching, was set up in cooperation with the Jayapura-based Cendrawasih
University as part of a crash program that is expected to produce 200
elementary school teachers in two batches.
Puncak Jaya regent Elieser Renmaur told Antara news agency that
the institute was established to compensate for the more than 100 teachers who
fled the mountainous regency.
Scores of schools have been closed and hundreds of pupils have
had to stay at home.
The regent said many of the first batch of 106 graduates that
will graduate in October were unqualified.
""How can they teach? Many of them can hardly read. I
am personally disappointed and will seek explanation from Cendrawasih
University's rector about how this could happen,"" Renmaur said.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2001/09/19/irian-jaya-lacks-qualified-teachers.html
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