Kupang needs 5,900 teachers

Kupang needs 5,900 teachers

KUPANG, East Nusa Tenggara: Head of the East Nusa Tenggara
National Education Office Jhon Manulangga said on Monday that the
province faces a severe shortage of school teachers, forcing more
than one in 10 elementary school students to drop out.

Jhon revealed that the province needs around 5,900 teachers to
fill the shortage.

Jhon said this was a major factor in the increased number of
dropouts from elementary and junior high schools.

He said that 14.5 percent of elementary school children, from
a total of 611,376 had dropped out of school, while the junior
highschool drop out rate was 4.2 percent from a total of 126,143
students.

The total number of people in the province who were illiterate
or had never had any formal education stands at about
376,000.(30)