{"id":504,"date":"2007-08-19T11:45:08","date_gmt":"2007-08-19T03:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/08\/19\/improving-education-tops-list-of-mca-youth-resolutions\/"},"modified":"2007-08-19T11:45:08","modified_gmt":"2007-08-19T03:45:08","slug":"improving-education-tops-list-of-mca-youth-resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/08\/19\/improving-education-tops-list-of-mca-youth-resolutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Improving education tops list of MCA Youth resolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>anything we can learn from here? or is it all eyewash only?<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<h5>Improving education tops list of resolutions<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/Current_News\/NST\/Sunday\/National\/20070819084839\/Article\/index_html\">source<\/a> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>MALACCA: Science and Mathematics papers for next year&#8217;s Ujian Pencapaian Sekolah Rendah (UPSR) examinations should be in Chinese for Chinese schools, with teachers posted there being fluent in the language.  <\/p>\n<table cellspacing=\"3\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"200\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody><\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>These were among 12 resolutions passed at the 44th MCA Youth Convention here yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the other resolutions called for:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 action against teachers who gave tuition to be stopped; <br \/>\u2022 more places in matriculation to non-Bumiputeras;<br \/> \u2022 a serious look into the methods of calculating co-curriculum points for STPM students;<br \/>\u2022 support for moves by the MCA to get more Public Services Department scholarships for Chinese students;<br \/>\u2022 a proper method of selecting contractors to prevent cases of shoddy workmanship in government offices and buildings with Chinese contractors encouraged to participate in tender exercises, and  <br \/>\u2022 the Internal Security Ministry and the police to be more effective in public safety.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Wee Meng Chee, the Malaysian undergraduate in Taiwan, whose infamous rendering of the Negaraku thrust him into the limelight, featured prominently in debates at the meeting. <\/p>\n<p>MCA Youth head Datuk Liow Tiong Lai called on Malaysians to allow the attorney-general to study the case.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We do not want this matter to be used as a racial issue. We want it to be resolved amicably,&quot; he said. <\/p>\n<p>Umno Youth deputy chief Khairy Jamaluddin, who was a guest, agreed that the issue should be resolved amicably<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We in Umno have our opinion while our counterparts in MCA Youth have their opinion. We can sit down and talk it over while allowing the law to take its course.&quot;  <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>anything we can learn from here? or is it all eyewash only? &nbsp; Improving education tops list of resolutions source MALACCA: Science and Mathematics papers for next year&#8217;s Ujian Pencapaian Sekolah Rendah (UPSR) examinations should be in Chinese for Chinese schools, with teachers posted there being fluent in the language. These were among 12 resolutions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19,142,114,24,141,36],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-education","tag-malacca","tag-mca","tag-mic","tag-umno","tag-upsr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}