Kupang needs 12,000 teachers

Kupang needs 12,000 teachers

KUPANG, East Nusa Tenggara: The head of the provincial office
of the Ministry of Education and Culture, Johanes Cornelius Mbeo,
said yesterday the province is facing a shortage of more than
12,000 teachers.

Of the total figure, 3,574 teachers are needed at junior and
senior high schools and 8,334 are needed to teach religious
subjects, he said.

The province presently has 4,384 religious teachers for Islam,
Protestant, Catholic and Hindu instruction for 150,000 junior and
high school students. (yac/ste)