{"id":7169,"date":"2011-01-07T17:50:50","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T09:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=7169"},"modified":"2011-01-07T17:50:50","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T09:50:50","slug":"tamil-school-enrolment-decreased-for-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2011\/01\/07\/tamil-school-enrolment-decreased-for-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamil School enrolment decreased for 2011?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not sure how valid this info is, but if it is, then there’s a problem brewing. Possible reasons I can think of:<\/p>\n

1. Less Indian students going to standard 1 (population growth problem?).<\/p>\n

2. Parents deciding to enrol in other schools (national or Chinese or private) due to better facilities\/environment (?).<\/p>\n

3. Location of Tamil schools not strategic enough (not enough community population or too far away compared to other schools, thus incurring more cost to send).<\/p>\n

4. Lack of publicity\/effort by PIBG, teachers, NGOs, political parties to promote the schools to parents.<\/p>\n

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THE number of pupils enrolled in Year One in Tamil schools has decreased slightly but more are expected to register over the next week, Tamil newspapers reported.<\/p>\n

Malaysia Nanban<\/em> said 15,998 pupils joined classes in 523 Tamil schools nationwide this year compared to 16,198 pupils last year.<\/p>\n

Tamil Schools national coordinator S. Baskaran said there was still a lot of interest among parents to send their children to Tamil schools.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

from the Star <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not sure how valid this info is, but if it is, then there’s a problem brewing. Possible reasons I can think of: 1. Less Indian students going to standard 1 (population growth problem?). 2. Parents deciding to enrol in other schools (national or Chinese or private) due to better facilities\/environment (?). 3. Location of Tamil […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,7],"tags":[53,20],"class_list":["post-7169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","category-indian","category-tamil-schools","tag-student-statistics","tag-tamil-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7169","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=7169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7171,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7169\/revisions\/7171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}