By Debra Chong
December 20, 2011
Pakiam complained final week about the Education Ministry's decision to bypass CBN's owners in appointing the brand brand brand brand new principal. File pic
Sister Rosalind Tan, the mom provincial of the Congregation of the Holy Infant Jesus for Malaysia, toldThe Malaysian Insiderwhen contacted today, "That's not true. We were not told."
Tan was responding to news reports progressing currently quoting Federal Territory Education director Datuk Khairil Awang as confirming which the brand brand brand brand new name has right away been proposed for the job, replacing the Education Ministry's progressing choice of Datin Seri Zavirah Mohd Shaari.
The Catholic Church had complained final week about Zavirah's appointment, indicating out which it was not consulted upon the matter, nonetheless it noted which the issue had nothing to do with her race or religion.
"I ! have con sulted with Archbishop Tan Sri Murphy Pakiam as good as the CBN house to explain the matter. The issue is settled," The Star newspaper's online book quoted Khairil as saying today.
"I have since the name of the brand brand brand brand new principal to the ministry," he told The Star.
Tan, who in is in charge of the Catholic order's convents as good as schools here, pronounced conjunction she nor CBN's house of governors were informed of the ultimate decision.
She pronounced the authority of the propagandize board, Dr Indrani Manuel, had contacted her yesterday to discuss calling for the hou! se meeti ng.
Manuel was the former CBN headmistress.
Conventionally, the propagandize house assembly is called by the propagandize principal who additionally sits upon the house as secretary. The alternative house members embody member from the propagandize owners, or goal authority as they have been scrupulously called, as good as member from the alumni as good as the relatives of students.
The Malaysian Insiderunderstands which Pakiam was usually contacted by Khairil through the phone call yesterday.
The archbishop could not be reached to verify the information.
Khairil pronounced usually the single claimant had creatively been authorised for the job from among the na! mes subm itted to the ministry, though which chairman was due to retire. However, the person, whom he did not name, has right away opted to retire usually during 60 underneath the brand brand brand brand new supervision scheme, paving the way for the brand brand brand brand new appointment.
But Tan pronounced the claimant referred to whom she was not available to identify during the time of hit had not opted to retire during 60, as the supervision had already voiced it had lifted the early retirement age to 60 during the time the hopeful list was presented to the method for care early this year.
Asked her subsequent move, she said: "I'll wait for for the black-and-white."
For Catholic Malaysians, Putrajaya's ultimate collect of the Malay-Muslim principal to head the prestigious CBN underscored the worrying trend of disregarding the Church's contributions as good as rights in the country.
Pakiam waded final week into the flourishing quarrel between the 112-year-old school's Catholic owners as good as the Ministry of Education (MOE) after Zavirahi's warn arrival during the doorstep.
"The appointment of the principal of CBN is not usually discordant to the supervision process of maximum conference though has since the sense which it is the! governm ent's plan to take over the goal schools in total negligence for the status, ethos as good as special character of goal schools, especially CBN," the archbishop pronounced in the statement published final week in Catholic paper The Herald.
He was appealing to Education director-general Datuk Seri Abdul Ghafar Mahmud to reconsider the ministry's decision as good as collect the formally qualified chairman nominated by the school's owners underneath the Infant Jesus (IJ) Sisters order. The propagandize is considered among the top convent schools in the country.
The case comes upon the heels of the new drama over the police's additional conditions for carolling per! mits upon two South Klang churches less than two weeks ago.
Earlier this year, right-wing Malay-Muslim groups triggered inhabitant uproar over persistent rumours which churches have been upon the campaign to convert members of the village as good as pushing unfounded allegations of the tip domestic plot to install the Christian prime minister in the subsequent general election.
Christians contend such issues have been part of attempts to erode their eremite rights in Muslim-majority Malaysia.
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