When I read what our DPM said in the newspaper today, I almost fell off my chair. I think our politicians are becoming clowns to entertain us all the time. Just look at another article that was published in the Star yesterday “EIS sets parents abuzz” http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2012/3/31/nation/11024129&sec=nation which I have attached below. Two contradicting reports!! I wonder why our politicians send their kids overseas then?
Before anyone get excited, please read this report http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/guan-eng-calls-muhyiddins-education-claim-preposterous/ The last few paragraphs in this article clarifies how the survey was conducted and misinterpreted.
When I see what is happening around me at times, I wonder whether our National schools are only for the poor and underprivileged students. More and more rich and well to do parents are sending their children to private schools, international schools and Singapore. The elite Malays have taken over the MARA colleges which suppose to be for the poor. Interestingly, MARA is implementing Cambridge curriculum for the students in their 45 colleges nationwide http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2011/08/10/why-can-mara-teach-maths-and-science-in-english/ & http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/8/6/nation/20110806160512&sec=nation where as national schools are not supposed to teach Maths and Science in English!! What a double standard? Do you know that UiTM also teaches everything in English!!
Frankly speaking our education system is in the mess. We have national schools, vernacular schools, MARA colleges, agama schools, boarding schools, matriculation, STPM and all sort of pre-U courses without any standardisation. Some are even reserved for certain race only! Then we have universities which are reserved for certain races, run by political parties etc etc. Our university rankings are dropping yearly and our graduates are of poor quality . Teachers who can’t speak English but teaching english. Our SPM results are becoming the best every year as we have the “best” students in the world who scores most number of As. Almost all students in urban areas are attending tuitions on daily basis which is nothing to be proud of. That simply shows the trust that the parents have on the education thought in the schools nowadays.
Well, I can go on ranting but who cares? At the end, as long as the politicians can keep the rakyat stupid, they will be at the top all the time.
BTW, all registered and prepared to vote?
Muhyiddin: Our education system is one of the best
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian youngsters are receiving better education than children in the United States, Britain and Germany.
“Only with quality education can we increase the nation’s intellectual and human capital capabilities towards becoming a high-income nation by 2020,” he said.
“As we head there, wages will go up and labour intensive industries will become less competitive as investors look elsewhere for cheaper labour,” added Muhyiddin.
“Our nation’s success will be determined by our ability to produce intelligent, highly skilled workers for these industries.
“In this context, investment in the education sector is critical,” he said.
At another function, Muhyiddin called for closer rapport between the public and the police to combat crime.
“Once a close relationship is fostered, the community will not hesitate to work together with the police to relay information on crime as well as participate in crime prevention activities,” he said when opening the 19th annual general meeting of the Malaysian Crime Prevention Foundation (MCPF).
EIS sets parents abuzz
By MOHD FARHAAN SHAH farhaan@thestar.com.my
JOHOR BARU: Excited parents here cannot wait for the opening of an international school right in the city here.
Bank officer Muzaffar Musa, 35, said that he had planned to enrol his children at a Singapore school next year.
However, he would send them to the Excelsior International School in Seri Alam.
Muzaffar said he always wanted to send his children to a Singapore school, saying that the island state has a better education system.
“But now I’m inclined to send my daughters to Excelsior School as it is located nearer to my place.
“This means I no longer need to travel so early to the school in Singapore,” he said yesterday.
Businesswoman Dalilah Bakar, 49, welcomed the international school, adding that parents now have a good opportunity to get the best education for their children.
“Many parents send their children to schools in Singapore instead of international or privately-run schools here.
“Some of these type of schools here only care about making profit without taking the students’ needs into account,” she added.
Sales executive K. Kumaraguru, 38, whose son is studying in Singapore for the last two years, said he might transfer him to Excelsior School as it is nearer to his house.
“I feel bad for my son who has to wake up at 4am and comes home after 8pm,” he added.
Excelsior School, due to open in September next year, will include elements of the Singaporean school curriculum and cater to the growing expatriate community in the state capital.
It is jointly developed by Raffles Campus Pte Ltd (RCPL) education group and Seri Alam Properties Sdn Bhd.
Spread over eight hectares, the school offers classes from kindergarten to high school for children aged three to 18.
It would be equipped with laboratories, an Olympic-sized swimming pool, football field, running tracks, drama and dance studios and an auditorium
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We bought furniture at a shop recently. The Malaysian shop assistant who is in his early 20s could not spell “without diamond”. A Bangladeshi worker came to assistance and spelled “without” correctly but spelled “diamond” as “dimond”. The shop assistant could not speak English and could only communicate in chinese.
At least the Bangladeshi could speak English and spell relatively well. When we saw the DPM comments, I could not help but think the fellow does not know what he is talking about. Our education system is in the pits.
DPM is just a clown. Every department under his leadership would be doomed. For instance:
NFC corp scandal when he was cultural minister.
Nurses, Pharmacist & Doctor glut when he is educational minister now.
I can’t imagine what can happen when he become (if…) PM later.
correction….it is agricultural minister
“World class education” with racist policies. Comparable to that of apartheid South Africa.
http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2012/04/17/undo-racial-bias-in-medical-courses-pm-told/
I think what is related in the article above is only the tip of the iceberg of what is really happening.
It is well known that Crimea was derecognised because there were too many Indians there!
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Very sad to read this. Thank god I had already finished my school year. When I asked my cousins or neighbours about pbs, most of them hate it as they cannot change class and there is no competition. and the most i hate about it is they don’t have any homework. So, they’re busy online fb / twitter. 😦