Macau's education authorities in hard bid to ease teachers' stress
17/10/2007 16:07
Macau's Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (EYAB) has been urging
schools to reduce class sizes and to recruit more "in-house specialists" to
lower teachers' stress level, local media reported today.
The Macau Post
Daily quoted So Chio Fai, director of the EYAB, as saying that some 90 percent
of public schools in Macau have enhanced the teacher-student ratio to cut the
class sizes.
The education chief predicted that 200 to 300 more "in-house
specialists" will be hired in 2007 to help teachers reduce their duties,
according to the newspaper.
"We are encouraging schools to recruit
specialists so that they could take care of the extra-curricular activities to
take the load off teachers' work," So was cited as saying.
The government's
recently-launched 15-year free education scheme and newly introduced moral
education plan have triggered warns over the increased teachers' stress
level.
Xinhua
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