TITLE OF COURSEWORK: Tertiary Education Opportunities For InService Teacher

NAME :

LIONG SEAN FAH

IC. NO.:

850706-11-5450

UNIT :

PSV 2

CODE NUMBER OF SUBJECT:

WAJ 3102

NAME OF TUTOR/
FACILITATOR:

PN.MALATHY NADARAYAH

Essay : Tertiary Education Opportunities For In-Service Teacher

In century of 21, education is importance for everyone. Education is the most vital
component in everyones life. It represents a status of a person. Without education we might
grow wise. However, not everyone will get the chance to proceed to their tertiary level
education. They are mostly tied with the reasons of financial restriction or time restriction.
In Malaysia, teacher in-service have many way to pursue their tertiary education,
such as Program Graduate Teacher (Program Pensiswazahan Guru), Program Graduate
Teacher In Primary School (Pensiswazahan Guru Sekolah Rendah),

Open University

Malaysia (OUM), University Perguruan Syed Idrus (UPSI), Malaysian Teaching Diploma
(KDPM), Certificate Course (KPA), and The Post-Degree Teacher Training Course (KPLI),
PJJ, UPM, PGSR, OUM, UPM, PISMP and more.This is definitely good news for those in
service teachers who plan to forgot their study without giving up their long time building
career as they can study during weekend. It is completely free without the teachers to pay a
single cent on it. The programme has opened up a good opportunity for teachers to upgrade
themselves in their pathway of teaching.
With the higher level educations teacher can be open to constructive criticism. Only
professional people are capable of knowing and understanding children. The importance
of higher education can be judged from the way it benefits a person financially, emotionally,
socially, as well as intellectually. It also equips us with all that is needed to make our dreams
come true. Education opens doors of brilliant career opportunities. It fetches better
prospects in career and growth. Every employer of today requires his prospective
employees to be well educated. He requires expertise. So, education becomes an eligibility
criterion for employment into any sector of the industry. We are rewarded for exercising the
expertise required for the field we venture.
This programme is mainly to improve the personality of the teacher and lead them to
a higher level of education in order to stay competitive in the society. They will be able to

keep up- to- date with the changes in teaching technique and exchange ideas by having
individual in a same profession having discussion together, share their methods and
technique of teaching. Through these sharing, individual may be able to alter their methods
and skills of teaching to meet the requirement of society. Students will also be benefitted
from the quality teaching from the graduated teachers. On the other hand, when they have
completed their studies for a certain period, they will be given a promotion and increase in
their pay.
Despite all the good of the programme, there is a price to pay, the teachers have to
balance up their life in between studies and works. They have to put in some effort in
selecting priority on these two options in order to reach a balance life. Study as a part timer
is tougher than full timer as they have to come out with the same outcome by just having
few classes on the weekend. There is a term called todays youth, tomorrows leader, with
the booming of the development in the country, instilling the students with a quality
education is definitely help in crossing a big step on the development of the country as
children are the hope for the country. This programme can efficiently helps the teachers in
providing and giving the future leader with a standard teaching. Therefore, teachers are
encourages to join in the programme in cultivating potential leaders and offers better
services to the mass.
Any one country only to education as a central theme in order to achieve prosperity.
Fall is an important reason for this is ignorance.
Only education can give a
country's government and people to bring honor, prosperity, independence and freedom.
Education to everyone, to develop into a desire for good people.
People should indulge in perfectly in character, and
passionately to develop this perfect.
We should be watched in the spirit of excellence, has
demonstrated the virtues of the human world, such as sincerity, loyalty, service of mankind,

love and justice. We must

own to promote peace and solidarity and the promotion of learning to pull themselves out of
pure class. The real purpose of education is
to lead people toward this path.