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)