Federal govt must resolve education issues in

Sarawak – NGO
MIRI: Gagasan Anak Dayak Sarawak Association (GADS) wants the federal government to
fully improve facilities and education quality in schools across the state in order to produce
quality human resource from Sarawak.

“The failure to produce quality teachers is the result of the Federal Government’s failure to
carry out its duty and unfair distribution of funding in education, compared to Peninsular
Malaysia, since the formation of Malaysia,” GADS said in a press statement yesterday.

Its chairman Vicky Gulin Shandom said the effort required the necessary funding from the
Federal Government because education is under their responsibility.

Vicky added that GADS was of the opinion that quality teachers were crucial in the effort to
produce a generation of quality and knowledgeable students.

“Only organisations with quality individuals can produce a generation of people who are smart,
intelligent and far sighted who can contribute to the nation’s development,” he said.

He noted that GADS had urged the government to cancel its plan through the Ministry of
Education Malaysia, to close down Teachers Institutes (IPG) in Miri and Bintangor if the target
of 90:10 local teachers ratio was to be achieved.

“Apart from that, the IPG should accept only Sarawakians as teacher trainees, until the 90:10
ratio is achieved,”he said.

He was commenting on the Minister of Education, Science and Technological Research Dato
Sri Michael Manyin’s statement that Sarawak would not be able to achieve the 90:10 ratio of
local teachers by 2018.