AKP positions recruitment rises to 92 pct to relieve teachers of clerical duties

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 22 — Recruitment for staff in the implementing group (AKP) under the Education Ministry (MOE) as of this month rose to 92 per cent from 84 per cent last year, said Deputy Education Minister Wong Kah Woh.

The MOE is working to optimise vacancies under AKP to minimise management and non-professional administration duties assigned to teachers.

“MOE remains committed to making the best efforts to safeguard the welfare of teachers throughout their service and always ensure that school management is more efficient and orderly,” he said during today’s Dewan Rakyat Special Chamber session.

Wong was responding to Kuala Krai MP Abdul Latiff Abdul Rahman’s motion on the unresolved issue of clerical duties among teachers, which burdens and disrupts their teachings.

He said the MOE established the Malaysian School Governance module to ensure that teachers carry out relevant tasks in 2021. This module consolidates various authorities across different levels of positions to avoid ambiguity and overlap in teachers’ responsibilities in schools.

The MOE is also taking a holistic approach to ensuring teachers remain motivated through a seven-measure initiative for teachers’ well-being. This includes abolishing celebrations or events at all levels that do not significantly impact learning and reducing the frequency of the review of school management elements of the Malaysian Education Quality Standard involving teachers.

Wong added that other measures include setting a more flexible lock-in time for student attendance records, appointing members of the public as public examination invigilators, limiting Teacher’s Day celebration to the national and school levels, allowing the Daily Teaching Plans only to include the objectives, teaching and teacher reflection, and giving teachers the autonomy to plan and implement teaching and learning.

— Bernama