Short Term Solution

The government is recruiting a million teachers under a contract scheme. A short term solution for the matter of badly distributed quality educators.

Tempo

January 11, 2021

THE matter of Indonesian education as yet unhandled is the imbalance between quality teachers and their distribution. Policy consistency is needed to overcome the two-fold problem. Teacher recruitment using a contract scheme by the government should only be a short term stopgap.

Indeed, there is no issue with the total number of teachers. The ratio between teacher and pupils currently complies to the education and culture ministry minimum standa

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