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Nov 13 2008

estates agree to transfer school land to government

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This is indeed a good news! Now, there’s 70 less reasons for government to deny funds to the Tamil schools.

DEPUTY Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Senator A. Kohilan Pillay said most estate managements nationwide have agreed to transfer land titles for Tamil schools to the government, reported Malaysia Nanban.

Previously, the Government had refused to give aid to most Tamil schools because they were located on private land.

The Selangor Gerakan chief said of the 289 Tamil schools partly aided by the government, landowners of 70 schools had agreed to transfer their land so that the Government can extend financial aid for the maintenance and operating expenses of these schools.

Only surprising thing is that Gerakan fellow make the announcement. Well, who cares about the messenger as long as its good news

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Nov 13 2008

record number of 7As

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719 students scored 7As this year. This is a big jump from previous year where either 573 or 571 students got 7As.

This is the first time students who took Science and Math in English since Standard 1 took the exam.

Some statistics as mentioned in the Star:

Between 31% to 46% of pupils who sat for the Ujian Pencapaian Sekolah Rendah (UPSR) this year answered the questions set for the Science and Mathematics paper entirely in English.

Education director-general Datuk Alimuddin Mohd Dom said a total of 159,234 pupils answered the Science paper completely in English. For Mathematics it was 238,153.

This is a significant increase compared to last year’s figure of 1,324 for Science and 1,075 for Mathematics.

“The 518,616 pupils who sat for the UPSR this year are the first group to have started studying the two subjects in English since the policy was introduced in 2003,” he told a press conference Thursday after giving an analysis of the UPSR 2008 results at the ministry.

Meanwhile, Alimuddin said the ministry had compared this year”s UPSR results with the last five years to compare pupils’ performance.

“The pupils’ UPSR results were better this year compared to the average measured over the last five years,” he said.

He said 9.2% (46,641) scored all As this year compared with an average of 7.8% over the last five years.

The number of pupils who achieved grades A, B and C in all subjects was 62.7% this year compared to the 60.5% average over five years.

Usually they compare year by year, but this is the first time comparing with average of five years results.

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Nov 09 2008

teaching of Science and Maths in English in Tamil schools

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As per earlier consensus, Tamil school representatives agreed that English should be used to teach Science and Math as per the status now. This is different from the stand of Chinese schools representatives.

The MIC said it will hold a special meeting with headmasters and parent-teacher associations (PTAs) from 522 Tamil primary schools nationwide to seek feedback on the teaching of Science and Mathematics in English.

Party president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said it was important to do so as the issue affected the entire community.

He said the previous consensus among Tamil school teachers and the PTAs was for both subjects to be taught in English.

Will there be a change of heart? What do you reader feel or think? Should English be continued to be used or should revert to Tamil? Or bilingual?

I don’t mind it being taught in English because of the resources available, and the ease in the future when students enter secondary school or tertiary education. Secondly, this will increase the amount of English language time in the school. The students can speak Tamil in school functions and daily activities in the school, in addition to Tamil language period.

However, proponents of Tamil as the medium can argue that materials are available in Tamil, and the possibility of those subjects being taught by non-Tamil teachers (less job for Indians). However, I think a clause can be included that the teacher of Science and Math must be bilingual so that can when necessary the teacher can provide explanation in either Tamil or English. By teaching in English, students will never learn science and maths terms in Tamil anymore.

Whatever it is, we must ensure that the adequate resources are available. No point saying English or Tamil when the schools lacks laptop, projector screens, power supply, Internet, or even competent teachers.

On another note, did you notice that the number of schools has become 522? Is it a printing error or wrong information provided by the Star? From 524, it became 523, and now 522? What is happening here?

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