NTT schools suffer teacher shortage

NTT schools suffer teacher shortage

KUPANG, East Nusa Tenggara: A recent study by the East Nusa
Tenggara (NTT) office of the Ministry of National Education
discovered that 400 out of 4,060 elementary schools in NTT had
currently only between one and four teachers.

The lack of educators has forced teachers to double as school
principals as well as school security guards, leading to a poor
overall standard of basic education in the province, the director
of the Kindergarten and Elementary School Development Division of
the local education office, Jusuf B. Malo, said on Tuesday.

"Most of the elementary schools that suffer from a lack of
teachers are located in Alor, Sikka, Kupang, East Flores,
Manggarai and a number of other regencies," he said. -- JP