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Putera MIC Book Donation Drive

October 10th, 2008
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Putera MIC launched a book donation drive on Wednesday.

 

The objectives of this campaign are:

 

* To help strengthen libraries in SRJK(T) in various par of the country
* To encourage reading habits among indian students studying in SRJK(T) by provising free books
* To nurture reading as hobby among students in the SRJK(T).

 

To get more info (well, don’t ask to many question, just donate a book la!) or to contribute, contact:

 

Thanasekaran @ 012 4801989 (Project Director)
Umabaran @ 012 5875215 (Penang),
Saravanan @ 012 3375729 (Johor)
Maheswaran @ 012 4630320 (Kedah),
Rama @ 012 6957150 (Melaka)
Gobi @ 012 4575848 (Perak),
Dr.Thina @ 017 2802767 (Negeri Sembilan)
Parry @ 012 3402749 (Selangor),
Visirajan @ 012 9715502 (KL)

 

According to posting on its website, they only want books, nothing more – “textbooks, reference books, dictionaries, storybooks, anything. Whatever you can afford to part with”. This campaign will be for two months and future campaigns will depend on the response, says it chief, P Kamalanathan. If you have a sizeable amount of books, they’ll come and pick it up.

 

Photos of the launching ceremony is at:
http://puteramic.blogspot.com/2008/10/putera-mic-is-on-book-donation-drive.html

 

According to Kamalanathan, the books collected would be given to a particular Tamil school in each state.
He urged the public to donate unused primary school books and other relevant reading materials to the respective MIC Putera centres throughout the country. THe said that schools must also organise reading campaigns to generate interest in reading among school children.

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Not all chinese schools wants to be converted to government schools

October 8th, 2008
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So says Deputy Education Minister Dr Wee Ka Siong. He says the partially-aided Chinese primary schools won’t be forced to convert into fully-aided ones. It would be up to the board of governors of each school to decide.

“We will not force schools to do so. We cannot give a blanket approval. Otherwise, it will create a mess,” he said in responding to a request from the school board for the school to be converted to a government school.

According to him, the Indian community was aggreable to convert all their partially-aided schools to fully-aided ones. Well, that’s because most of the schools are in pathetic condition and “squatting” on plantation lands. Of course it will be a beneficial move. But for the Chinese schools, some of them are owners of their land and have mutli-storey buildings. They have strong financial support from the foundations and business community. Thus, they prefer to remain out of government hands. They still want to maintain their freedom.

Dr Wee said that while the Indian community was open to convert all Tamil schools in the country, the Chinese were reluctant to do so.

“While the Indian community wants to completely hand over its 374 schools, the majority of Chinese schools are not keen due to the amount they have spent, and because they still want to hold on to the land.”

He said that to date, only a handful of Chinese schools had requested conversion of their status.

The deputy minister also mentioned about the plans (STILL BEING MADE!) on conversion of those schools:

Dr Wee also noted that while plans were being made to allow the conversion of partially-aided schools under the Education Blueprint 2006-2010, there was also a need for a more balanced system of allocation distribution.

“Of course, we have to first look at our overall financial capability,” said Dr Wee, who announced an emergency allocation of RM20,000 to SJK (C) Thung Hon for classroom furniture and to build a guardhouse.

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Religion and ABSENCE of plans for Tamil schools

September 29th, 2008
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I’m not privy to the full proposal by the MIC as mentioned by its Information Chief, Saravanan. But I wonder, how do those non-Hindu students be accommodated while Hinduism is thought in the classes, in the name of Tamil language? We complain when our young children are “taught” to “baca doa” or youths forced listen to Islam-glorifying speeches either in school or universities, so obviously its unfair to force others to listen to Hinduism.

One option is to provide religious classes during the Agama Islam period. Only those parents who do not want to the children to be taught religion should send their kids for Moral Classes (perhaps the parents are atheist, or have no faith in the teachers, or are unsure of their religion…whatever). This is a potential logistic nightmare as thousands of religious teachers will be needed to teach Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism, Taoism, Bahaism, Sikhism and so on. Coupled with lack of classroom, it will be a doomed effort.

Political wise, this will be deemed as undermining Islam as religious classes are taught in school just like Islam. So, those folks at UMNO and its frontmen will start to protest. Another headache.

So, I’m not sure how MIC came up with this proposal:

The MIC yesterday urged the Education Ministry to consider the party’s proposal to incorporate religious aspects into the Tamil language curriculum at the primary school level.

In making the proposal, MIC information chief Datuk M. Saravanan expressed disappointment over the current Tamil language curriculum.

“Learning the Tamil language is unlike studying the other languages as religion should be a main component of the curriculum.

“Therefore, I urge the Education Ministry to make the necessary changes to the Tamil language curriculum so that young Indians can be taught religious values from an early age,” he said after opening the annual general meeting of the Tamil Teachers Union of Malaya.

Saravanan, who is Federal Territories Deputy Minister, said that one of the reasons why Tamil schools were being politicised was the absence of short- and long-term plans for the schools.

The second thing which alarms me is the statement that “one of the reasons why Tamil schools were being politicised was the absence of short- and long-term plans for the schools”. Now, is this like throwing mud into one’s own face? The champion of the community, the guardian of Tamil schools, is telling us that THERE IS ABSENCE of plans??? What the $%^$&*@$%@^$&%&#%@%%. Yeah, I’m pissed off. 62 years and this is the nonsense we get. Another great job. Why don’t these people do us all a favor and go to the top most floor of a highrise and jump off?

I hope to God that Saravanan was misinformed, misquoted, misled, or mis-whatever.

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Tamil School Teachers Union ask more places

September 29th, 2008
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I read with surprise the statement from MALAYA National Tamil School Teachers Union President P. Tharmalinggam which said that union is unhappy that only 100 temporary teachers out of 1,067 have been given the opportunity to pursue the teacher’s training course during the holidays.

Maybe he did not realise that 100 out 1067 is 9.37%, which is more than the Indian community population percentage. So, if going by race-based quota, how can he ask for more places? From where did the union get the courage? Not HINDRAF, I guess. Must be the MIC rebranding. 🙂

The rest of his statement:

He said there are more than 900 vacancies in Tamil schools and more temporary teachers were needed to overcome the shortage. He said more Tamil school teachers were needed every year as enrolment was increasing .

The union has been forwarding memoranda requesting the Edu­cation Ministry to increase its intake of temporary Tamil schoolteachers for the training during the holiday courses.

He said the standard of education in Tamil schools could be improved with the deployment of trained teachers.

“Most temporary teachers have been working for more than five years and they have the necessary experience, dedication and commitment to give quality education to the school children,” he said.

The report should highlight how many places are available in the first place before proceeding to the enrollment. Maybe the places are limited and there also requests from Chinese schools, religious schools, and national schools.

Actually, my cousin got a place and had finished her studies earlier this year. She’s waiting to be transferred to accompany her husband in another state.

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RM1 quit rent for schools in Negeri Sembilan

September 11th, 2008
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Good news announced by the BN-led Negeri Sembilan state which is similar to Perak and Selangor (and Penang and Kedah too? – need to check). It seems that the step was taken earlier, but only recently announced by the Chief Minister.

All government schools in the state will pay a nominal sum of RM1 in quit rent and a RM1,000 one-off premium.

These rates are much lower compared to what some schools, especially larger ones, have paid in the past.

All the schools have to do to qualify is to apply to the Land and District office in their area. This includes government religious schools and vernacular schools.

“The yearly quit rent for these schools were high, depending on the size of the school and location. That is why it was decided that we impose a nominal rate of RM1 across the board,” said Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan after chairing the State Executive Council meeting at Wisma Negeri.

This is to reduce the costs incurred by the school management, he said after contributing RM100,000 to the state Malaysian Chinese Association Hall chairman Lau Chee Boon at his office yesterday.

“The state government wants to see these schools properly managed without being burdened by a high quit rent. We hope the schools will concentrate on providing quality education,” he said.

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