My bad. Copied the wrong (outdated) report.
Should be this one:
SINGAPORE - It has just become harder for graduates and mid-career professionals to land jobs as teachers in schools, even if they have done a stint of relief teaching.
The Education Ministry has begun to scale down hiring, after an aggressive eight-year recruitment drive since 2004 helped it build a 33,000-strong teaching force.
At its peak, in 2009, it recruited 3,000 teachers. In the years following, the number was between 2,000 and 3,000 a year.
But last year, the figure fell to 1,400. And this year, the ministry said it has taken on just 1,100 teachers so far.
Most of those it hires now are graduates who go on to take up the postgraduate diploma in education, as they are more sure of their career choices after university.
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Many applied to be teachers but few are chosen
Just to "steal" some excerpts from the newspaper report
By Leow Si Wan
The Straits Times
Tuesday, Jun 15, 2010
AS OF last month, about 1,900 teachers have been recruited by the Ministry of Education ( MOE) during this recruitment year.
Considering that it set out to hire 2,300 this recruitment year, having hired 1,900 means it has hit 82 per cent of its target, said its spokesman.
The 1,900 were picked from among the more than 15,000 who applied to become teachers.
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