Malaysia to hire 300 US English tutors
(The Malaysian Insider) – KUALA LUMPUR, May 6 — Malaysia will hire some 300 English language tutors from the US next year to bolster efforts to improve the use of the language in local schools, the education minister said today.
The RM18 million programme will see the language experts deployed to schools in the sixth and seventh bands across the country, said Education Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin in Malacca.
Muhyiddin, who is also deputy prime minister, revealed the initiative to be a part of Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s US tour last year, after which the prime minister mooted the adoption of the US Peace Corps programme here.
The Peace Corp is a US government programme to promote cross-cultural understanding between the US and other nations.
The American tutors are in addition to the 10,000 English-language teachers the ministry plans to train in preparation for the “Upholding Bahasa Malaysia and Strengthening English” policy next year where Science and Mathematics will be taught in both languages.
