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Friday, March 19, 2010

Encouraging rural students to become teachers
(Borneo Post)
by Lucas Jalong Bato March 19, 2010, Friday
MIRI:
More than 200 school leavers in Belaga attended a programme called ‘Jom jadi cikgu’ to encourage rural students to become teachers.The programme, jointly organised by the Teacher Education Division of Batu Lintang Teachers Training Institute and Bakun Trust Fund, was held at SMK Belaga last March 13.
Among other things, the event was also to assist students who qualify to be teachers to register online.
The guidance and counselling teacher Dennis Hang expressed gratitude to Celcom for providing the broadband services even though the speed was a litle bit slow.
“We hope in future Celcom can provide at least 3G services in rural Belaga, as it had promised to do so, for the benefit of the rural students and teachers,” Hang said.
Parents were appreciative of such a programme to help their children find suitable jobs.
Mering, a representative from the Penan community thanked Belaga assemblyman Liwan Lagang for taking the initiative to hold such a programme in his constituency.
However, he was a little bit disappointed with the overall performance of Penan students in school thus far and hoped the Penan students could do better in the future.
“If more Penan students can become teachers, this will have a positive impact on our community,” Mering said.
Only four outstanding Penan students joined the programme and they are Raman Mayan, Jennifer Mering, Kusang Niboy and Jenson Jeno.

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