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The politics of rollercoaster
My mount upon PPSMI has been really clear. It has been settled most times previously in this blog so we am not starting to go in to it anymore.
What i wish to post currently is a interesting regard upon why there is such a sudden change in preference of a No. 2.
We all know a Old Horse has been viewed to be 'playing both cards" or a little of we might similar to to make use of a tenure 'playing both sides". The British has a nicer tenure 'divide as well as rule". When we divide as well as rule, we get both sides perplexing to greatfully we as well as we get a most appropriate of both worlds, so to speak. You can additionally choose a a single peaceful to make most appropriate deals with you.
Of course, people similar to me as well as most of we out there would not be means to fool around divide as well as rule. You need a sure status as well as stature during least, as well as we contingency be means to command await from a large proportion of members in order to be means to fool around such game.
The final Chief was not even in Old Horse's book to play. He pushed him out outright, as well as most people thought it was because of a cancellation of a curved bridge as well as so on.
But a present chief has been utterly astute. He has additionally been treading upon a really clever line so as not to step onto you-know-who's toes. But during a single time, his policies were deemed to be nott to a fondness of a conservatives ( generally primarily his mount upon NEP), as a result a outsourced organization P was shaped as well as Old Horse became a little arrange of 'patron' . By regulating this outsourced organisation, he was means to check most of a otherwise-would-be-more-liberal policies, causing most flip flopping similar to we see in an acrobatic show. The new economic model was toned down, most u-turns were taken .
It has additionally since rise to a perception/rumours which a Old Horse is behind No.2 as well as a right wingers associated with him as well as w! hich the re is an undercurrent waiting to pull NO.1 out.
The right wingers seen to be upon a zenith generally after a "Big Rally July" debacle. Even though a right wingers have been opposite a rally , they used a mishandling to portrait No 1 as being weak as well as indecisive. Then a precious mill situation came out ( who though those in high positions can get those documents?) That was a low point.
But as a Cantonese ( we am not though we consider they have lots of wisdom) says: a person will have "sam soi lok wong", definition a person will have 3 downs as well as 6 ups in his life. After experiencing downs, there will really be ups.. This is customarily used to motivate someone who is down, though in life, really mostly this turns out to be true.
No. 1 after experiencing a low, decided which he could not be possibly here or there, perplexing to greatfully both liberals as well as right wingers , though in a end appreciative none. So he came out with a little of a greatest decisions in his life, repealing sure laws which a liberals have been pulling for it.. Without a Big Rally July", it would not of march happen, though if we excavate it deeper, this was additionally because of his really survival is during stake.
The No. 2 's announcements a final few weeks sounded similar to a death of PPSMI has already be cast in mill as well as there is no more goal for those pulling for an choice of regulating it.
Just suppose if we have been in form 3 now as well as all these whilst we have been regulating a sure denunciation to sense maths as well as science as well as unexpected they have been telling we a next year when we have been in form 4 , we have to make use of another language, as well as afterwards in afew years' time, when we come in college, we will have to revert behind to a former again, how confusing as well as joyless can this be?
But just when all a lights seem to be out for PPSMI, a voice which belongs to none other than a Old Horse unexpected spoke up opposit! e a abol ition of this, as well as he was even quoted as asking No 1 to overturn No 2s decision, as well as there was even a report quoting him as saying which NO 1 could replace No 2 as a person in charge of this. we contingency admit this is a single of a few times which we feel similar to giving him a hug.
After he spoke, a whole board diversion seems to have changed. The choice remains. The form 3 tyro i spoke about can go on regulating a same denunciation he used next year.
The perception now is which from a trough, NO 1 is slowly though certainly rising , as well as might be this time he might reach a crest. The flip wave in announcement was bad for No 2 politically. But do not write him off yet!
Politics is similar to drum coasters. One impulse we have been up, next we will be down. When we have been up, do not be as well arrogant. When we have been down, do not feel despair. Whether we have been up or down, there will come a impulse which we have to leave a wagon as well as mount upon level belligerent eventually!
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PPSMI: Malaysia in the lost world?
Following a proclamation by Education Minister Muhyiddin Yassin to stop a precision of grant as well as arithmetic in English from 2012, Malaysia is once again embroiled in a disorderly controversy, this time slicing across domestic as well as secular divisions.
It is disorderly because a ideas have been aplenty as well as issues have been floating around but correct focus.
Sadly, both a proponent as well as competition of PPSMI (the precision as well as guidance of grant as well as arithmetic in English) have been wrong in their outspoken rationale.
The proponent is wrong in saying which PPSMI will move inclination in a English language, as a pass to grasp such inclination is by correct precision of a denunciation itself, as well as not by guidance an additional theme regulating English.
The competition is additionally wrong in saying which PPSMI will weaken a inhabitant denunciation or harm a inhabitant pride. While a former reason is some-more hypothetical than real as can be vouched by gifted educationists, a latter reason is some-more a thoughtfulness inferiority complex, rsther than than legitimate nationalism.
Continue or desert PPSMI?
So how do you move from here? Abandon or continue PPSMI?
To answer this question, it will be beneficial if you go back a few years as well as trace how a thought initial started.
When former premier Mahathir Mohamad initial recognised a PPSMI in 2002, it was in approval of a actuality which a English denunciation spin was in shambles as well as which you badly indispensable alleviation in order not to be thrown further behind by a rest of a world.
Mahathir's goal to ascent English was correct, though a path! chosen was wrong.
There was no brawl which English was very important or which it indispensable to be upgraded urgently. But to begin precision a subjects in English a very subsequent year (2003) but initial ensuring a accessibility of English-proficient teachers is wrong.
The outcome was a dump in a standard of grant as well as arithmetic but in effect alleviation in English proficiency.
That Mahathir's module has been a failure is attested by Muhyiddin who pronounced which usually a tiny minority of schools have been still adopting PPSMI whilst a rest have abandoned it due to miss of competent teachers.
In fact, Mahathir should have zeroed in on a precision of a denunciation itself as a initial proviso of operation, as well as temporarily dont think about about PPSMI.
We should begin with a teachers. Due to a vast series of teachers compulsory to be upgraded (hundreds of thousands) in their English proficiency, you should adopt a plan of initial precision a vast core band of soldiers of English teachers, who will in spin train alternative teachers who need to be upgraded. To train this core brigade, you need to import unfamiliar teachers in addition to recruitment of internal English teachers who might include those already in retirement.
Only when you have trainedsufficient English-proficient teachers in a schools, can you contemplate a introduction of PPSMI.For which reason, a programme might have had to be introduced gradually, during a pace commensurate with accessibility of competent teachers.
Merits of PPSMI
Though PPSMI is not a best gateway to great English, it is nevertheless a estimable attempt which will move a twin benefits of alleviation in English as well as ready connectivity to a universe of grant as well as technology.
Opponents of PPSMI often cite a examples of Russia as well as China as proof which a single can hang to one's inhabitant denunciation as well as nonetheless grasp superb swell in grant as well as te! chnology .But these critics dont think about which countries like Russia as well as China have been outrageous countries with immense pools of talents as well as grant in a sciences as well as technology, whilst relatively petite Malaysia, not in inland technology, has to constantly import unfamiliar sources of believe which have been acquired often in a English language.
As a matter of fact, English textbooks have been already widely used in a institutions of higher learning, so because not begin its use during an progressing age, such as during delegate school level, or even progressing if requisite conditions have been fulfilled? It will surely be an advantage for a children to do so.
For which reason, Muhyiddin's preference to stop PPSMI is unwise.His watered-down preference to proviso out PPSMI utterly by 2016 for primary schools as well as 2021 for delegate schools for a tiny series of remaining schools still sticking to PPSMI is even some-more inexplicable.
The usually acceptable reason for interlude PPSMI should usually be a single of technicality (the miss of competent precision personnel) as well as not a single of concept (the appropriateness of regulating English for a dual subjects).
If sure schools have weathered 9 years (2003 to 2011) of severe roving with a brand new complement of PPSMI, it equates to which these schools have already strike a bieing born pangs of a brand new system, which should be a good happening to a students.
Does it have clarity afterwards to return to a aged complement now?Whose interests does a preparation minister have in mind a students or his own domestic fortune?
The approach forward
In actuality a supervision should not usually treasure what you have already completed with a schools which have succeeded with PPSMI, you should expand such success with alternative schools, regulating a plan we have outlined above a critical programme to urgently train a vast pool of English teachers to teach alternative ! teachers .
Muhyddin pronounced which whilst slicing off PPSMI, he is posterior a critical programme to ascent English, for which he is perplexing to move in 300 English teachers from a US to assistance out in those schools which need help.
But alas, he is creation a same inapplicable designation as Mahathir unwell to see a realities. We have thousands of schools as well as all of them have been diseased in English.So, to which schools contingency you send these 300 teachers? Aren't they a dump in a sea of Malaysian schools? How would which kind of deployment of American teachers be in effect in raising a spin of English?
Now which election is around a corner, as well as both domestic camps BN as well as Pakatan Rakyat have been scrambling to snatch critical electoral support, we find which PPSMI has unfortunately depressed as a domestic pawn.
Politicians have been arising statements not with an eye to a seductiveness of a students, though with domestic power as a target. Any give or take on a PPMSI issue is calculated on a basis of net electoral benefit or loss.
This is admittedly a difficult time forpoliticians, though it is additionally a time when true statesmanship can shine.He who speaks honestly for a welfare of a children's preparation as well as nonetheless can remonstrate a majority which it is a right approach forward will be a winner for himself, his party as well as a nation.
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Najibs reforms in dribs and drabs, says Ku Li
By Lee Wei Lian
The Malaysian Insider
Nov 08, 2011
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 8 Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah criticised a gait of reforms in a nation today, observant which it was too inconsistent as well as there appeared to be no overall devise to renovate a nation as well as society.
The Umno maestro as well as president of newly purebred civil society NGO Amanah (Angkatan Amanah Merdeka) pronounced which whilst there have been initiatives such as a National Key Result Areas (NKRA's), they were currently too fragmented.
"I do not know essentially because everything is finished in dribs as well as drabs," he pronounced at a press conference when asked about a government's reforms. "There is no overall devise as to how they are starting to renovate our nation or society."
He combined which it was "very difficult" for him to gauge what is starting to occur in conditions of mutation unless there is "a complete reformation."
Since receiving bureau in 2009, Datuk Seri Najib Razak has initiated a remodel bulletin which enclosed a supervision as well as mercantile mutation programme to be driven by a special purpose performance supervision unit, Pemandu.
While a budding apportion has won regard for a confidant pierce of proposing to dissolution oppressive apprehension laws as well as relax media chartering laws, his remodel efforts in conditions of overhauling a supervision machine as well as transforming a economy have been met with a rebate than loquacious response from a public.
Critics contend which a lack of radical reforms effectively amounted to process tinkering which would broach only lacklustre results.
Many members of a open also contend which they do not feel any marked disproportion in their lives despite shiny census data released intermittently by Pemandu display achievements such ! as a reb ate in a crime rate as well as billions in new investment.
Government officials as well as a little economists, however, have pointed to Malaysia's climb in rankings such as a World Economic Forum's Competitiveness Index as well as a World Bank's Doing Business Index this year as proof which Najib's reforms are working.
The budding minister, however, is also viewed to be compelled by hardliners in his celebration who would be opposed to widespread mercantile reforms which would entail levels of liberalisation which could bluster a rice bowls of politically continuous businessmen.
Some corporate as well as political leaders also have pronounced which a supervision is so set in a ways which Najib faces an ascending conflict to mangle bad day to day which have taken base over a decades.
"In corporations we can sinecure as well as fire quick though to take disciplinary action in supervision is intensely time consuming," pronounced Minister in Prime Minister's Department Tan Sri Koh Tsu Koon last week.
Some analysts contend which a budding apportion could be holding out for a clever mandate from a 13th general choosing before embarking upon more unconditional reforms.
The Wall Street Journal, however, pronounced upon September 28 which Najib would need to commit to reforms if he intends to propel Umno as well as Barisan Nasional to victory in a subsequent general choosing as many members of a younger era of voters do not feel gratified to a ruling coalition.
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Anwar seeks missing RM1.4b in federal funds
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 8 Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim alleges which RM1.4 billion has left blank from a Treasurys contingency fund, which is for unforeseen sovereign expenses.
He pronounced a Auditor-General had found only RM79.15 million in a account even though a Government Expenditure Estimates reported which RM1.5 billion had been allocated for which purpose.
Where has a income gone? More seriously, when did it go missing, a RM1.4 billion? he told reporters in a Parliament lobby today.
I dont think a Audit Department (made a mistake). They have been some-more meticulous when it comes to accounting.
Anwar (picture) questioned if a inordinate 17-day delay in between a tabling of Budget 2012 and a Auditor-Generals Report was meant to hide this discrepancy.
The annual review inform is customarily tabled before a Budget.
Now we have been forced to think there is some other compelling reason why they chose not to table a review inform during a right time, Anwar said.
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by Teoh El Sen KUALA LUMPUR: The supervision should reform the electoral system initial before calling for the general election, Umno stalwart as well as Angkatan Amanah Merdeka (Amanah) boss Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah said today. We welcome the government's ...