Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email obviously, one will want the best for their children, especially in education. Residential schools do produce generally better examination results, but some say it is due to dubious methods. However, for the moment, one can only enter MRSM which allocates 10% of the seats for the normal Malaysians, remaining 90% is for the obvious group.
Status quo at residential schools
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By SARBAN SINGH
KUALA PILAH: There is no need to increase the enrolment of non-Bumiputra students into government residential schools, said Education Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein. He said it was difficult to produce a formula that could please everyone and that the present arrangement would remain.
“If we talk about residential schools, then people will start talking about the exclusivity of the agama schools and the SJKC and SJKT schools.
“I, for one, am happy with the diversity as this is our strength … we should celebrate this diversity,” he said Saturday after visiting SM Sains Tuanku Ja’afar, near here.
Hishammuddin was asked if more non-Bumiputras should be allowed to study in residential schools which normally did better that regular schools in the academic field. Of the country’s 54 residential schools, only the Mara Junior Colleges reserved 10% of its seats for non-Bumiputra students.
Hishammuddin said what was more important was that all schools taught the same values to all students so that they could continue to live in harmony and remain tolerant. “We must tell our children that although we are of different races, we are still Malaysians. As long as we can do this, I don’t see why we cannot continue with the present system,” he said. He said the system, which had been in place before Independence and way before he was Education Minister, was working well.
