The Malaysian Education Department is recruiting Graduates to become primary school teachers.

Those who are eligible will go through a year’s full-time course and will be given an allowance during the training period.

Basic criterias are :

1. You have to be a Malaysian citizen.
2. Below 35 years old on 1st June 2009 (born after 1 June 1974).
3. Credit for Bahasa in SPM.

This is indeed a very good opportunity. Think about pension and school holidays.

Some points to note :
1. Teachers don’t get to choose where they will be sent for training.
2. After you’ve graduated, there is no guarantee you will get a position in your home state.
3. You don’t know if you will be given the choice to have a pension scheme or you can only have EPF.

(From my personal experience because I was born into a family of teachers!)

Anyway, this is a career I will consider if I am 25 years old, single and my parents are healthy. I want to get out of the office, so getting into another office is not what I have in mind. I have figured this out after I attended an interview with a private college. For my own happiness, I have to stick to what I want and work on it.

For those who are interested to find out more about this teacher’s training course, click here.

Posted on 16-02-2009 at 6:27 pm (2) Comments