Kuala Lumpur  - A Malaysian state has said it would soon make schoolteachers and students use the same toilets in a move to promote an atmosphere of "oneness" in schools, a news report said Friday.

Codenamed the "1Toilet" policy, the government of the north-eastern state of Terengganu said it hoped the move would "inspire" students to excel in their education, the Star daily reported.

"When students share the toilets with the teacher, they will believe that they are on par with academicians and this automatically invokes a sense of being important to an organization, which, in this case, is the school," state education committee chairman Ahmad Razif Abdul Rahman was quoted as saying.

"So far, we have one school that has implemented the policy a few days ago," he said. "It has received positive feedback from the school management although it is still premature for us to evaluate its efficiency."

Teachers, students and even the principal would be encouraged to also share canteen space under the policy, he said.

The report said state authorities would not make it compulsory for schools to implement the policy. (dpa)