Posts Tagged ‘Education’

Deja Vu?

February 6th, 2009
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Read this:

The principal of a secondary school here is in trouble for an alleged religious slur against his students.

More than 20 parents of the school’s students gathered outside the district education office here to demand an apology yesterday.

They claimed the principal had used the derogatory words thrice during an assembly on Sunday.

One of the parents, Y. Baskaran, said the principal should set a good example by fostering unity among students.

“The principal’s action is an insult to the community. She should have refrained from using such words. I hope no one in responsible positions like her uses the words in future,” he said.

Several parents had also lodged a police report the day after the incident.

Baskaran said narrow-minded civil servants such as the principal were obstructing the government’s efforts to promote racial harmony in the country.

Baskaran, who represented the parents, handed a memorandum to district education officer Abu Bakar Md Ali.

Social worker S. Neelamegam, who was present at the gathering, said disciplinary action should be meted out to the principal to serve as a lesson to other civil servants.

Abu Bakar said he would refer the matter to the state Education Department.

And then, this incident in Kuala Langat.

Don’t be surprised if the HM gets promoted and transfered to a Cluster school! 🙂

Book Donation Drive success by Vettrykumaran

January 30th, 2009
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This is an email received from Mr Vettry Kumaran who posted his plan – book donation drive for school in Kluang last year. He wrote to inform on the progress, which is an obvious success. It is deeds like this that our community needs. One may call it a small step, but it take an effort to organize a book drive. Congrats to Mr Vettry for his effort.

I would like to thanks everyone who made this donation drive a successful one and now SMK Taman Seri Kluang have more than 700 tamil books to the date(Most of the books are on display and less tha 50 books are still under proccessing) Students are reading and borrowing the books with great interest. Even teachers who have tamil background are interested in borrowing the books.
About 150 tamil books each (300 books) were donated to SMK Taman Kluang Barat and SMK Tun Hussein Onn) I have letter from SMK Taman Kluang Barat but still waiting for letter from SMK Tun Hussein Onn.
I did receive many request from teachers from other school to help them to get books for their schools. I told them everything i did and promised to help if they need advice.
Recently i changed my telephone number. My new number is 019 7289343. I uploaded some picture at my friendster as well :

Some photos sent by him:

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vettry-book-02

nearly 700 books have been obtained to populate these racks.

What English?

January 19th, 2009
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Hours ago, I was talking to my niece who entered form 4 this year. She’s in Science stream – taking Physics, Chemistry, and Biology. The teachers are struggling with teaching in English. One spoke like bullet train, and asked the students to change to Arts stream when they said “don’t understand”. Another is trainee teacher is doing practicals and the students are made scapegoats because they guy can’t speak properly.  The third teacher also unable to communicate in English well.

So, this makes me wonder. What do you mean by teaching science subjects in English?

RM350 million for government aided schools under 9MP

January 14th, 2009
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  • 100 million from initial 9th Malaysian Plan (9MP)
  • 50 million under 9MP mid-term review
  • 200 million under economic stimulus package announced by DPM Najib.

According to Star, t0morrow, Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak will officially present the RM200mil allocation under the stimulus package at a ceremony in SJKC Chee Wen in Subang Jaya.he said.

The amount will be equally divided between four types of government aided schools — mission, religious, Chinese and Tamil.

Now, its not clear if the amount to be divided equally is RM200 million or the total amount. As far I know, its the Rm200 million only. But let’s take the whole amount. Rm350 million/4 types/373 (or 322) school = Rm234,584.45 (or RM271,739.13)per school for 5 years. That’s Rm46,916.89 (or RM54,347.82) per school per year. Yup, its just average calculation, so it gives us a rough idea of the size of the allocation. If the amount was RM200 million, it would be  RM26,809.65 (0r RM31,055.90) per school per year. Again, this is based on the figures of 373 and 322 schools. I assume the funds is for repairs, infrastructure, and purchase of things – activities that wil spur the local economy via tender for Class F contractors and supplies providers.

Its indeed a great news on paper. A news that’s been repeated since end of last year  when Najib took over Finance Ministry. And tomorrow the allocations will be handed over (to Education Ministry?).

More interesting questions would be the listing of allocation for last 5 Malaysian Plans and the long term (20 years?) road map (if such thing exists) . No point having a one-off allocation but after 2010, its back to square one.

Addendum: forgot to add something. Federal allocation for Chinese schools will be channeled directly via the school’s board of directors, according to MCA vice-president Datuk Liow Tiong Lai.

“By giving the money directly to the schools’ board of directors, it will make it easier and faster for them to carry out programmes for the students.

“This way, they can better monitor how the money is used and choose their own contractors for their projects. I hope this will foster greater cooperation between the Government and the school boards,” he said, adding that this was the Government’s way of recognising the importance of Chinese education.

Tamil schools don’t have board of directors (at least those that I know of).

SJKT Desa Cemerlang becomes full aided school

January 14th, 2009
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Hishammuddin also said that the government had converted the status of three schools to fully aided schools.

They were SJKT Desa Cemerlang in Ulu Tiram, Johor, SMK Perempuan Methodist in Raub Pahang and SJKC Kuo Min in Kuala Muda, Kedah.

–  from the Star.

Another 372 or so to go!