Rom Nain
You competence be forgiven for carrying longed for this. After all, apart from being distracted by the Eid celebrations, by right away most of us certainly contingency be facing 'transformation fatigue' or 'blueprint exhaustion' after almost 4 years of clichs about shift yet being unequivocally offered most of the muchness, some-more of the same.Tucked divided upon the inside pages of the Malaysian mainstream newspapers, distant from the celebratory, feel-good stories of Hari Raya celebration, Umno politicians' 'open houses' largely paid for by us sucker taxpayers, I'm certain as well as generally stories of gluttony as well as good cheer, was the report upon the launch of yet an additional regime 'plan' or 'blueprint'.
But, nonetheless, what's this ultimate lark, err plan?
Well, it's the 'education blueprint', the purportedly large not to discuss ambitious and, certainly potentiallymuchoexpensive endeavour to renovate (S..t! There's that darn word again) the Malaysian preparation complement over the subsequent 13 years.
If you're the superstitious person, only that series of years settled alone will, I'm sure, have you heedful about the feasibility of the plan.
And even if you aren't, since that 13 years is the rather prolonged time, I'm certain you would ask if, over the period of the 13 years, there will be regular reviews to have certain that the 'plan' is carrying the preferred goods in what, to be sure, will go upon to be the changing worl! d. But before even all that, before you embark upon some-more than the decade of implementation of educational strategies, maybe it would be impending to ask: What the hell seems to have left wrong that yet an additional plans is required for the preparation system?
Apparently all will be revealed upon Sept 11, when the PM himself, right away fondly called Bijan inside of the little circles in cyberspace, will launch the National Education Blueprint.
We have been reliably (hahaha) informed by the mainstream press that the former five-year National Education Blueprint (2006-2010) 'promised extreme changes to the school sourroundings to have students some-more confident, creative as well as innovative'.
Having been an educationist for the bit now, as well as additionally being the clinging air blower of theMen in Blackfilms, I'm certain this guarantee was met, though someway all those 'confident', 'creative' as well as 'innovative' Malaysian kids were afterwards kidnapped by Martians as well as brought to Mars.
And in their place, those nasty Martians contingency have left during the back of Martian clones, finish with Malaysian MyKads. And, notwithstanding carrying the combined IQ of minus 13 (S..t! There's that series again), these most thousand clones were nonetheless lerned to mark 'X' (or is it '/') upon Malaysian list papers.
But, to be serious, the editorial in the mainstream newspaper went upon to contend that underneath the prior blueprint, "existing weaknesses were to be tackled, including the miss of simple amenities in farming schools, the need to remodel aged school buildings, as well as the disaster among the tiny percentage of the student population to learn the 3Rs". These, surely, h! ave been absolutely simple problems that were there many, most years ago, certainly when you was the schoolboy in the 1960s as well as 1970s.
'Were they all Malaysian Rip Van Winkles?'
And if you cruise that these problems still existed only six years ago, in 2006, as well as indispensable to be addressed as well as overcome underneath the prior Education Blueprint, afterwards you unequivocally need to ask: What were the politicians as well as polite servants in the preparation zone you do all these most decades that has resulted in these problems persisting?
Were they all Malaysian Rip Van Winkles, fast asleep upon the job? Like the beloved home minister who really not prolonged ago as well as with the straight face, I'm certain declared that it was only not prolonged ago that the BN government saw the need to concentration upon crime-busting?
These basic, unresolved problems notwithstanding, if, indeed, there has been the five-year national preparation devise in place all this while, why, pray tell, was there all that bitch as well as finish u-turn with the policy/strategy/plan/cockamamie move to teach Science as well as Mathematics in English?
Indeed, right away you have been told that Ah Jib Gor or Bijan himself has suggested to the single of the predictably most panels during the back of this new plans that English Literature should be included in the curriculum 'to improve the inclination of students in the language'.
I'm certain you can suppose how sparks will fly if as well as when that idea becomes something more.
Those guys in Perkasa, Pekida, even Umno Youth, you believe, will detonate their red blood vessels during the prospect of their offsprings guidance Shakespeare, Eliot and, God forbid, DH Lawrence.
Indeed, it competence only be the fluke nonetheless there have been as well most of such 'coincidences' lately though only as that was reported, an additional object was expelled by the! imparti al headlines agency,Bernama.
It tells us of this vehement 'Prof Madya' (mad ya?) in the little problematic Malaysian open university proposing that Malay Literature which, according to him, is not popular in schools these days, be made the core subject.
Such hand-sown, home-grown brilliance only knocks you out, doesn't it? Students increasingly find the theme uninteresting, making it unpopular. Instead of exploring the reasons why, you only have it the core theme as well as force it down their throats. And did you contend that you will be celebrating 55 years ofMerdeka!not so prolonged from now?
At any rate, you for the single look forward to Sept 11, when the New Education Blueprint will be voiced by the PM.
But, since that the row designing it is headed by the former vice-chancellor of the country's first 'Apex' university that, somehow, has not been means to yield distant up the world university rankings since, greatfully excuse me if you do not hold my breath.
ROM NAIN is the media researcher as well as academic who is weary of incompetent, unethical leaders as well as their apologists as well as turn doctors in the media who try to get divided with murder whilst professing to massage shoulders with God's angels.
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