{"id":3064,"date":"2009-01-09T23:00:01","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=3064"},"modified":"2009-01-09T23:00:01","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T15:00:01","slug":"enrolment-in-tamil-schools-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/tamil-schools\/2009\/01\/09\/enrolment-in-tamil-schools-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"enrolment in tamil schools increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most Tamil schools except several in the estates showed an increase in student enrolment possibly due to the migration of estate workers to town areas, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2009\/1\/6\/nation\/2946190&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\">daily quoted<\/a> Malaysian Tamil schools chief organiser S. Baskaran as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Tamil dailies splashed the increase in Tamil school intakes on Monday.\u00a0 Sounds like good news. But when I viewed the statistics in MOE <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moe.gov.my\/emis\/emis2\/emisportal2\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>, updated on 30th June 2008, there are a total of 334 schools with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moe.gov.my\/emis\/emis2\/emisportal2\/doc\/fckeditor\/File\/map_jan_08\/Jadual10-Enrolmen%20Rendah%20Kurang%20150%20Negeri%20Jenis.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">enrolment less than 150 students<\/a>. That&#8217;s 63.9% of total Tamil schools in Malaysia. So, it will interesting to know what&#8217;s the status now. How many schools have improved its enrollment?<\/p>\n<p>In 30th June 2007, there were 4209 classes and 4022 classroom, 7263 teachers (930 graduates, 5715 non-graduates, and 618 untrained) according to one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moe.gov.my\/emis\/emis2\/emisportal2\/doc\/fckeditor\/File\/map_jan_08\/Jadual4-Guru%20Bukan%20Guru%20Rendah%20Negeri%20Jenis%20Jantina.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a>. However, another said there were 7341 teachers, and report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moe.gov.my\/emis\/emis2\/emisportal2\/doc\/fckeditor\/File\/map_jan_08\/Jadual3-Enrolmen%20Kelas%20Rendah%20Negeri%20Jenis%20Jantina.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Jadual 3<\/a> said there were 108279 students in 4525 classes. 42 classes run dual session for one reason or another.<\/p>\n<p>I have soft copies of the reports, in case the links are down.<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, this recent trend of increasing enrollment means more resources have to be allocated to Tamil schools. More buildings, more allocation, more Indian teachers, more education materials, and more attention.Now itself we practically have to beg for money everytime there&#8217;s an election or event. We don&#8217;t want piecemeal action, we want long term planning and road map. So, who is in charge?<\/p>\n<p>Who is in charge of planning for the future? What is MIC and\/or YSS doing about this? How about Tamil Foundation? What is their role? Who do we turn to to find out more details on the future of Tamil schools?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most Tamil schools except several in the estates showed an increase in student enrolment possibly due to the migration of estate workers to town areas, the daily quoted Malaysian Tamil schools chief organiser S. Baskaran as saying. Tamil dailies splashed the increase in Tamil school intakes on Monday.\u00a0 Sounds like good news. But when I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[19,53,20],"class_list":["post-3064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","category-tamil-schools","tag-education","tag-student-statistics","tag-tamil-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3064"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3067,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064\/revisions\/3067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}