Chinese education group Dong Zong will hold a rally on Nov 25 to protest against the preliminary report of the National Education Blueprint 2013-2025, which it describes as unfavourable to the multi-lingual education system.
The protest, which is the latest among a series of rallies held by Dong Zong this year on various Chinese education issues, will be held at Padang Timur, Petaling Jaya, at 11am.
According to the Sin Chew daily's report, Dong Zong president Yap Sin Tian said it is an urgent matter because the blueprint will be finalised at the end of December this year.
"We must submit our suggestions to the relevant authorities and get their attention before the blueprint is finalised in December."
"We hope that this peaceful gathering will be joined by people from all around the country," said Yap in a press conference after chairing a meeting in Perlis yesterday.
He also stressed that the fate of Chinese education will be determined by the blueprint and hence, there is a need for follow up action to make sure their views will be considered by the government.
'Mother tongue education neglected'
Chinese education groups have been protesting against the preliminary report of the national education report for what they say is overemphasis on the teaching and learning of the national language, while mother tongue education is neglected.
These include the adoption of the national school syllabus in teaching the Malay language in vernacular schools and increasing its learning period to 270 minutes per week.
Dong Zong and other groups are worried that this is part of goverment's plan to achieve the ‘ultimate target' as stated in the Razak Report 1956, which is to build a single-stream school system with the Malay language as the main teaching medium.
They have urged the government to give fair treatment to all streams, including Chinese independent schools, and bring them in as part of the national education blueprint.
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ReplyDeleteDong Zong menjadi pertubuhan pendidikan ekstrem cina di negara ini.
ReplyDeleteDong Zong ni sebuah pertubuhan ektremis Cina yang bertopengkan pendidikan Cina.
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DeleteOne sector which remains a key focus of the second phase of the Government Transformation Programme (GTP 2.0) is the education sector, with several key emphasis on improving the standards of education across the ages.
ReplyDeleteDespite vast achievements being made in Malaysia’s education system within the past 50 years, gaps still exist in certain areas.
DeleteTo rectify this, Performance Management and Delivery Unit (Pemandu) chief executive officer, Datuk Seri Idris Jala, said the GTP 2.0, which was a subset of the upcoming Education Blueprint 2013-2015, would provide coverage on areas such as curriculum and assessment, vocational education, ministry transformation as well as encouraging greater involvement of parents, the community and the private sector in this industry.
Delete“All initiatives in the GTP 2.0 and this Blueprint will be executed concurrently.
DeleteThe preliminary Education Blueprint will be launched sometime this month, while the final version will be launched in December this year,” he noted during the launch of the GTP 2.0 in Kuching.
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DeleteUnder the first phase of GTP which ran from 2010 to 2012, the government focused on five key areas namely pre-schools, literacy and numeracy, high-performing schools, new deals for principals and a school improvement programme.
From 2013 to 2015, the GTP 2.0 will include two additional programmes – teacher charter and upskilling of English – on top of enhancements to be added to current programmes.
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DeleteA key concern of many rakyat members was the lack of quality control mechanisms for the pre-school sector. The government was looking to rectify this by revising guidelines and processes for extending grants to existing operators and vouchers including childcare centres.
DeleteIt would also implement an inspection and monitoring mechanism and private sector agreement to these standards, in addition to introducing pathways and training vouchers for pre-school teachers.
As you know, we’ve focused a lot on pre-schooling. This was a big problem for us as only 60 per cent of our kids entering Primary 1 has had pre-school education,” he stressed.
DeleteThe problem is the 40 per cent who have not been to pre-schools will have difficulties catching up with the syllabus.
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DeleteTo address this, we have opened a record number of pre-school classes – more than 3,000 classes were opened and an additional 77,000 children have benefited from this programme.
There is a massive improvement in the literacy and numeracy of children.
DeleteAnother key highlight of the roadmap for the education sector is to deliver one proficient English teacher in every classroom.
DeleteThrough this initiative, the government will push for teachers to undergo rapid proficiency testing, and consecutively introduce intensive upskilling and immersive learning for all non-proficient teachers in the country.
Delete“We’ve also started ranking every school in Malaysia,” Idris added. “There are 9,814 primary and secondary schools and have categorised them in bands, with Band 1 being the best and Band 7 the worst.
Delete“As a result of the programme, we see a massive improvement in terms of performance of the student outcomes in the exams. In fact, many schools in Sabah and Sarawak had seen improvements in the outcomes of students.”
DeleteThe State Education Department has set eight strategic focuses as its Key Performance Indicator (KPI) in improving the education level in Sabah. Among these include the improvement of management leadership at school level.
ReplyDeleteClose cooperation between various parties, such as parents, the community, private sector and local leaders is essential in ensuring excellent education services.
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ReplyDeleteThis is in line with the ‘education for all’ and ‘all for education’ concepts towards producing a quality human capital, and of course this requires an effective mechanism to be set in place.
For this purpose, the department of education was committed to implement quality management system based on MS ISO 9001:2008 while at the same time adopting the 5S concept, besides Star Rating system as required by MAMPU.
ReplyDeleteOther focuses include improving the overall performance of public examinations, namely UPSR, PMR, SPM and STPM.
ReplyDeleteThe development and upgrading of school infrastructures and facilities, compliance of the financial procedures at all levels and implementation of the Standard Primary School Curriculum (KSSR).
ReplyDeleteThe Education department would also give attention to reducing the backlog of disciplinary cases, reducing absenteeism among students and achieving the sub-NKRA (National Key Results Area) that had been adopted by the Ministry of Education.
ReplyDeleteThere were 499,684 students with 40,276 teachers and 6,654 supporting staff at 1,070 primary and 213 secondary schools in Sabah.
ReplyDeleteThe element of recognition at workplace was becoming more important nowadays as shown by studies on the contributing factors to individual motivation and work performance.
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ReplyDeleteBesides salary and incentives, workers also desire respect, to be entrusted to have autonomy in carrying out their duties as well as social and moral support.
ReplyDeleteIn this respect, recognition such as the APC could help in bringing out the best in the individual worker.
The ministry had high hopes on education practitioners in Sabah to play their part as a medium for generating development in the country through education in the various fields.
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ReplyDeleteIn today’s globalised world, the task of an educator in guiding the younger generation into a competitive, innovative and creative human capital that has high integrity values and patriotism has become more challenging and complicated.
Teachers, therefore must possess not only sound knowledge in education but also charismatic and able to be a role model that help mould the next generation.
ReplyDeleteOn part of the education needs of the natives in Sabah, Director-General of the Higher Learning Department, Prof. Datuk Dr Rujhan Mustafa, said he would be personally scrutinising the list of these students.
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ReplyDeleteApplications from Kadazan, Dusun and Murut students in rural Sabah to enter public institutes of higher learning will be given priority and sent directly to the Ministry of Higher Learning.
He assured that the department would provide as many opportunities as it could to KDM students from the rural areas to study in institutes of higher learning even though they only fulfil the minimum requirement for entry.
ReplyDeleteThe joint chairperson of KDM Malaysia's board of advisers said he is doing this so as to enhance participation from the KDM people in furthering studies at higher institutes of learning.
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ReplyDeleteHe urged school leavers, especially from the KDM community, to give their name to Datuk Peter Anthony (President KDM Malaysia) so that it would be forwarded to his office.
He said this effort is, among others, to reduce the gap between students in rural and urban areas.
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ReplyDeleteIt is also, he said, to give opportunity for school leavers from rural areas to study in institutes of higher learning.
Towards this end, Dr Rujhan credited KDM Malaysia for its mission and vision to assist students in rural areas achieve excellence in education.
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ReplyDeleteSpecial Adviser to the Ministry of Higher Learning, Prof. Madya Abdul Razak Ahmad, on the other hand, said parents should never compromise their children's education.
ReplyDeleteComing from a not well-to-do family, he said he knew how it felt to be inadequate in every aspect.
Hence, parents should strive to ensure their children receive education, he said.
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