Education Dept to study proposed teachers protection act

TANAH MERAH: The Education Department will study the proposal for the introduction of a teachers protection act to protect educators, said its director-general, Tan Sri Dr Khair Mohamad Yusof (pix).

He said the department would have to scrutinise details into the formulation of the proposed law.

"We have to look at the scope of protection required by educators," he added.

He told this to reporters when met at the presentation of contributions to parent-teacher associations of schools in the Tanah Merah parliamentary constituency by its member of parliament and Umno division leader Datuk Ikmal Hisyam Abd Aziz here last night.

Prior to this, Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi had said that he would ask the Education Ministry to scrutinise details into the formulation of the act to protect educators in today's ever-challenging world. — Bernama