Friday February 15, 2008
Upgraded in qualifications but losing out
I REFER to the letter “Sacrifice of teachers that hasn’t paid off” (The Star, Feb 13) and agree fully with it.
It is very demoralising and de-motivating for her sister-in-law to be deprived of her promotion and increment in pay after upgrading herself from DGA 29 to DG 41 at her own accord.
There are many teachers in the same predicament and it looks like the Education Ministry has forgotten about this group of teachers during the recent pay revision!
I fully understand what she is going through, as I am one of the unfortunate teachers as well. I taught for 11 years before embarking on a degree course that took me four years.
During that period, I had to leave my aged parents, my husband and my children and scrimp on my half-pay, just to complete my studies and upgrade myself at my own expense so that I can move up the rung of the ladder from a non-graduate teacher to a graduate teacher.
Alas! My sacrifice did not pay off. I made a foolish move. Now, after five years in DG41, my pay is even lower than those teachers in DGA 32 who are more junior than me in years of service.
Had I stayed put in DGA29, I would have moved up to DGA32 and drawn a higher salary by about RM400 than what I am receiving now in DG 41.
I feel so ashamed to meet my ex-colleagues who did not heed my advice to upgrade themselves then as they made a wiser choice than me.
I am in my 19th year of service and yet I am still considered a very junior teacher in the graduate scheme as all my 11 years in the non-graduate scheme are not taken into consideration. For me to be eligible for promotion to DG44 or to apply to further my studies or to attend courses, I also lose out as I have only served five years in the graduate scheme.
TAN PEI NEE,
Ipoh, Perak.
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