Muhyiddin's 'dodgy source' on education quality



Education Minister Muhyiddin Yassin cited a dodgy investigate in claiming which Malaysia's peculiarity of preparation outranks which of developed countries such as Germany, Britain as good as a US, according to a DAP.

Its broadside chief Tony Pua pronounced Muhyiddin had relied upon a World Competitiveness Report by a World Economic Forum (WEF) which, in turn, was formed upon interpretation from a government-linked Institute of Strategic as good as International Studies (ISIS) as good as a government-owned Malaysia Productivity Corporation (MPC).

NONEPua(right)said a investigate involved only 87 internal businessmen who were asked to rate, upon a scale of one to seven, a preparation complement formed upon this question: 'How good does a tutorial complement in your country encounter a needs of a rival economy?'.

"Surely such a tiny consult with such 'surprising' outcomes contingency be benchmarked against other convincing international studies before it is accepted during face value," Pua commented in a statement today.

"And surely, as a preparation minister, he would have seen most objective studies upon a peculiarity of our preparation as good as students."

As! e.g. s, Pua cited a Programme for International Students Assessment (Pisa) investigate in 2009 which assessed which Malaysian 15-year-olds to be distant at a back of their counterparts in a rest of a developed world.

Pisa is a programme by a Organisation for Economic Cooperation as good as Development (OECD), a 34-member forum which promotes traffic as good as democracy.

Pua forked out which a methodology in use by Pisa is distant some-more convincing since it involves reviewing a literacy, mathematics as good as systematic bargain of 522,000 students! opposit e 74 countries, with nearly 4,999 respondents from Malaysia alone.

He pronounced a interpretation showed which Malaysia was ranked good below OECD countries as good as privately against a US, Britain as good as Germany in all three tested areas.

"In conditions of celebration of a mass literacy, you were ranked a bad 55 out of 74 countries. In Mathematics literacy, it was 57 as good as (we fared) only marginally better in Science during 52.

"The conclusion of a inform upon Malaysia was even some-more damaging when it reported which 56 percent of students are estimated to have a proficiency in celebration of a mass preparation which is during or upon top of a baseline level indispensable to experience effectively as good as productively in life."

'Jaguh kampung' syndrome


Pua pronounced Muhyiddin should have cited a Pisa study, about which he should be entirely aware, since it was conducted with a cooperation of a Education Ministry.

azlan"Instead, Muhyiddin decided to endorse as good as exaggerate of a consult of 87 internal office worker upon a singular biased question," he said.

He pronounced this is same to thejaguh kampung(village hero) syndrome, with Muhyiddin selectively choosing interpretation to have himself look good but objectivity.

On Saturday, Muhyiddin had told a National Higher Education Carnival 2012 which Malaysians should be unapproachable of theeducation systemin relation to a findings of a WEF study.
Selectively quoting WEF report
Meanwhile, DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng also weighed in upon a topic, pointing out which Muhyiddin had misled a open by selectively quoting from a WEF report.

Lim pronounced which whilst a WEF inform pronounced! Malaysi a ranked fourteen in conditions of peculiarity of education, there were other areas in a same investigate which showed which Malaysia lagged at a back of in other areas. Eight examples quoted by Lim are as follows:
  • Quality of first education: Rank 21
  • Primary preparation enrollment: Rank 61
  • Secondary preparation enrollment: Rank 101
  • Tertiary preparation enrollment: Rank 66
  • Quality of Mathematics as good as Science education: Rank 23
  • Quality of management schools: Rank 27
  • Internet entrance in schools: Rank 36
  • Availability of research as good as training services: Rank 18
Lim pronounced which Malaysia's relatively low opening upon objective or non-subjective measures such as a enrollment rates should be highlighted upon top of which of a senior manager consult perspective indicators such as in peculiarity of education.
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