Education in Malaysia is suffering like cancer

Written on July 9, 2009 – 12:36 am | by Kampung Boy |

Once again, our Education ministers did another flip flop on their education policies. Teaching maths and science is going to be revert back to Bahasa Malaysia. The main reason for the change is because they didn’t achieve their objective. Maths and science started using English in year 2003.

Short time frame

After 6 years of experiment, the government has changed their mind just like that to revert back teaching maths and science to Bahasa Malaysia. More time should be given on this matter as Rome wasn’t build in 6 years as well.

Political reasons

I guess the government made the decision so quickly due to political reasons as they are feeling the heat on loosing the 2/3 majority in the last election.

Why make the students suffer?

Students in SRJKC and SRJKT have to study maths and science in their mother language. When they go to secondary school they have to revert to Bahasa Malaysia. In University they have to use English. What the hell? Why can’t just concentrate on one?

Where has the money gone?

One of the reason for the change is due to lack of teachers having good command in english to teach students. Educate the teachers and send them for courses to improve their english. You can burn 12.6 billion in PKFZ scandal why not use the money for better purpose like education?

Never walk the talk

We always hear our ministers stating Malaysia have world class universities and education system. Then why send your children to overseas when you have “World Class” education and universities in Malaysia?

Malaysia government giving free education

My topic might have given you a shock but it’s a fact. Malaysia like to nurture smart and brilliant students but giving them away mainly to Singapore and other parts of the world. Have a deeper thought then you will get what i mean.

Conclusion

All in all i am quite disappointed with the change but what can we do. Let’s look at the bright side of things. Mastering English is important as it’s a global language but at least we can say most Malaysians have better English command compared to people in Japan, Russia, Germany and so on. That does not mean we are smarter then them.

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