Education Ministry to address illiteracy problem among NS trainees

PUTRAJAYA, Jan 10 The Education Ministry is considering carrying special programmes to combat a tall rate of illiteracy among National Service (NS) trainees.

Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin pronounced currently his method was wakeful of a problem as well as was working with a Defence Ministry to identify a trainees as well as which schools they were from.

We will obtain more minute information from a method through NS; you want to identify which schools these students have been from, whether civic or rural, inhabitant or private, as well as from there, maybe you will hold special programmes to resolve a problem, he told reporters during a Putrajaya International Convention Centre here.

According to a inform upon Star Online today, a Defence Ministry has discovered which about eight per cent of 6,667 NS trainees from 30 selected camps national were unable to review as well as write.

The daily reported which a commentary were based upon a pilot plan regulating a module called I-Smart conducted upon a third batch of NS trainees in August final year.

This is a really critical discovery which you need to pay courtesy to because in a own ministrys records, even among students not partial of a NS, there is a tiny number of those who have reached Form Five though still have education problems, Muhyiddin said.

He combined which this was because his method introduced a education as well as numeracy programme two years ago as a partial of a National Key Results Areas (NKRA) to exam students turn of understanding.

He pronounced a programme helps to identify if a student has disabilities, whether physical, conference or sight, from a early stages of education (Year One to Three).

What you have finished since final year has been really effective... Almost 90 per cent as well as on top of have accepted this learning process... But it takes three years to complete, he said.

So after three years, you contingency achieve a target to a best of a ability... if possible! 100 per cent of students can read, count as well as write, he added.