Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email Charles Santiago (MP Klang) provides the details on his blog. Basically, the state government is “going to” build 10 pre-schools in Tamil schools. According to Xavier Jayakumar, the effort will be jointly done with three NGOs, and expected 30-40 pre-schools to be established in three years.
According to him, about 42 percent of students who enter year one in SJKT do not know how to read and write, due to the inability of the low-income parents to send them to pre-schools. The state government will offer “discounts” to these parents.
Xavier presented RM1.6 million to 3 NGOs – Child Information Learning and Development Centre (Child) (RM300,000), Education Welfare and Research Foundation (EWRF) (RM150,000) andTamil Foundation (RM182,250).
Among the schools targetted are : SJKT Taman Permata and SJKT Ladang Ampar Tenang, Dengkil; SJKT Ladang Bukit Raja, Klang; SJKT Ladang Sungai Terap, Kuala Selangor and SJKT Bandar Baru Salak Tinggi Sepang.
He added that approval and cooperation from parents, school and school board is needed. If there’s not approval, they will look for other schools. Teachers will hired and provided proper training.
Note: the amount given to NGOs did not total up to RM1.6 million. Another posting in his blog mentioned that 27 Tamil schools also received cheques, so maybe its included in the RM1.6 million. Let’s see if this appears in major papers later.
SJKT Bukit Darah also has plans to start a pre-school, so hopefully it can be included.
My question: doesn’t it require Ministry of Education (federal) approval on premise use, syllabus, teacher hiring, etc?
