The Havoc Education Reform Inflicts: Education Blueprint 2013-2025 (Part 3 of 5)

October 2, 2012

The Havoc Education Reform Inflicts: Education Blueprint 2013-2025 (Part 3 of 5)

Third of Five Parts: Quality, Efficiency, Efficacy, And Trimming of Fat

by Dr. M. Bakri Musa, Morgan-Hill, California

[Part One discusses a Blueprint's disaster to commend a diversity inside of a propagandize system, as well as with which a need for specific solutions targeted to particular groups. Part Two discusses a particular challenge of having competent teachers especially in science, English, as well as mathematics, a vicious complaint not adequately addressed by a Blueprint. In this third partial you discuss a fixed link between quality, efficiency, as well as efficacy, points not fully appreciated in a Blueprint.]

The a single blueprint in a Blueprint which many appropriate captures what's wrong with a Malaysian preparation complement is Exhibit 6-4, a Ministry's organizational staff structure. The blueprint is described as rectangular; it's some-more fat Grecian column. Incidentally, which blueprint is a many appropriate graphic representation of data in a complete document; it captures as well as demonstrates well dual distinct points.

One, there have been as many Indians as there have been chie! fs in a organization, as well as two, a overwhelming weight of executive staff during all levels.

"Malaysia arguably has a single of a largest central (federal) administrations in a world, relations to a series of schools," says a Blueprint, quoting a UNESCO report.

We do not need those highly-paid general consultants to remind us of a bloat. The gleaming building which is a Ministry of Higher Education in Putrajaya is emblematic of that. It reveals a government's perverted priorities. That edifice shames which of a Department of Education of a US, or any First World country.

By any measure, relations to a economy, population, or total budget, Malaysia supports a preparation complement generously, many some-more so than countries similar to Finland as well as South Korea. Yet a students as well as schools lag distant behind. The answer lies in Exhibit 6-4. The bulk of a resources depleted do not finish up in a classrooms.

It reflects a panel's joining (or miss of it) to enhancing a system's potency which a post-reform draft looks usually somewhat tapered during a top. It needs to be sharply pyramidal to plunge in to a stream magisterial rectangle.

Efficiency is a single of a Blueprint's 6 goals. Briefly yet not inaccurately defined, potency is outlay relations to input. If you squander "x" volume of resources (time, money, effort) as well as furnish "y" volume of dictated results, while my co-worker expends twice as much, afterwards you am twice as efficient. However, if he produces other than a dictated results, afterwards he is not being influential utterly apart from being not efficient. His producing all those unintended as well as neglected prod! ucts red uces or interferes with his outlay of a preferred ones. Efficiency is doing things right; efficacy, doing a right thing.

Our complement of preparation is both emasculate as well as inefficacious. We have been not fit since despite a immeasurable resources depleted you furnish distant as well couple of graduates who have been bilingual, scholarship literate, mathematically competent, as well as capable of vicious thinking. We have been not being influential since a graduates you furnish have been not a types you desire, meaning, they have been unilingual, incompetent to consider critically, as well as great usually during regurgitating what has been spoon-fed in to them.

A some-more tangible manifestation of a inefficiency is this. Rwanda could yield any child with a laptop during a fragment of a Malaysian price. We have been not being as influential as Rwanda where a laptop module teaches not usually a immature kids though additionally spills over to their families. In Malaysia those laptops finish up either being "lost" or gathering dust in a school's storerooms. Our teachers have not been adequately trained to have use of them; upon top of those computers go to a propagandize as well as not since to particular teachers. Thus there is no pride of ownership, as well as opportunities for them to clarity have been which many reduced.

Pursuing efficiency, you have dual ministries (one for aloft education), any with a own overpaid Minister, Deputy Ministers, Political Secretaries, KSUs, DGs, Deputy KSUs, Assistant Deputy KSUs, as well as hordes of directors. With a government's stated idea of autonomy to universities, all you need is a single person to write a checks perhaps once a semester. You do not need a ministry, many reduction a grand one. That costly edifice as well as magisterial executive staff divert resources which differently could have been diverted to a classrooms as well as teachers.

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Peruse a organizational structure of a Ministry of Education (MOE); dozens of divisions could be chopped off. Why do you need a separate multiplication for matrikulasi; it is nothing some-more than Sixth Form; further with residential schools. The purpose of decentralization as well as devolution of management to a periphery is, among others, to reduce a central bureaucracy, not to lighten a load of those already under-worked polite servants during headquarters. If schools truly have autonomy afterwards all you need is a single person during domicile to write a large check each month, term, or year.

Bureaus similar to Textbook, Translation, as well as Dewan Bahasa could be privatized as well as a resources saved diverted without delay to compensate writers, translators, as well as publishers, a tangible producers of goods as well as services. Then there have been a corporate as well as general relations offices. Get rid of both. The usually critical attribute MOE should cultivate is with relatives as well as teachers.

I would additionally turn off a Examination Syndicate. Such bodies in America similar to a College Board (responsible for a Scholastic Assessment Test, SAT) as well as American College Testing (ACT), as well as those obliged for graduate as well as veteran studies similar to GMAT (Business School) as well as MCAT (Medical School) have been private.

Yet there is not a word in a Blueprint upon streamlining a Ministry, reducing a bloat, as well as getting rid or during least privatizing those peripheral services.

Malaysians, individually as well as as a society, worth as well as apply oneself education. We willingly squander resources upon it though have been reluctant to squander a additional effort to have sure which which those supports have been outlayed wisely. MOE's bill escapes vicious scrutiny.

MOE, being partial as well as parcel of a massiv! e Malays ian bureaucracy, is additionally afflicted with prevalent corruption, obvious cronyism, annoying incompetence, naked nepotism, as well as a twisted clarity of meritocracy. The last liaison (at least a single which was exposed) was in 1960 under Rahman Talib when RM100 million (then) in propagandize construction supports were "unaccounted for," a substitution for "missing." That might appear small change by stream customary of greed, though after factoring for acceleration as well as devaluation, it would be a billion in today's currency.

The Blueprint utterly ignores this blight of administration department in MOE. In an progressing book you cited a example of a magisterial price of a MARA residential college where through rival bidding you could get 3 such schools for a price of two. If rival bidding were to be customary practice, afterwards not usually would you get some-more for a income though additionally a schools would have roofs which would not collapse, thus endangering a children.

Najib as well as Muhyiddin have not demonstrated their capability to take upon local UMNO warlords. On a contrary, both have been central to a hurtful domestic patronage complement which plagues Malaysia. So design a grow as well as inefficiency in MOE (and a rest of a government) to continue.

As for efficacy, a Blueprint does not even comment upon whether a new rescinding of training scholarship as well as mathematics in English advances a idea of producing bilingual as well as scholarship lettered graduates.

There is no letter of reference for increasing a series of hours of direction in English or mandating a pass in a Malaysian University English Test (MUET). The some-more hours as well as a younger! you hav e been unprotected to a language, a some-more proficient you would be, as well as faster. Making students pass a exam definitely motivates them to study for it.

In a 1950s a supervision mandated all polite servants to pass a exam in Malay to stir upon them a importance. That prompted many to take in isolation lessons lest they would be bypassed in promotions. This Blueprint does not charge teachers as well as headmasters denote their competence in English.

As for developing "critical, beautiful as well as innovative meditative skills," a supervision could proceed by abolishing which indoctrination center, Biro Tata Negara (BTN). The resources saved could be diverted to schools. Both Najib as well as Muhyiddin have been fervent defenders of BTN; which reflects their veneer of joining to nurturing independent vicious thinking.

Quality is linked with efficiency, efficacy, as well as a trimming of an organization's fat. We contingency strive high; surpassing a low club is no achievement. It usually gives us a fake clarity of it. On a new revisit to China Muhyiddin spoken which you have finished well with "93 percent of Malaysians means to attend propagandize as well as many of them could read, write as well as count." Malaysians merit better; you design more.

The idea should be a immature kids attending not only any propagandize though a single which would learn them to be fully bilingual, scholarship literate, mathematically competent, as well as means to consider critically. We should be condemned by a actuality which 40,000 of a graduates have been still incompetent to find jobs during a time when Malaysia has millions of unfamiliar workers. That te! lls us w hich it is not a complaint with a manage to buy rather with a peculiarity of those graduates.

The concentration contingency be upon peculiarity as well as not upon years outlayed in schools. Instead of extending mandatory schooling to 11 years (the Blueprint's recommendation), you would concentration first upon providing universal preschool as well as kindergarten especially in farming areas. If you want to learn kampong kids English, starting them in soak classes during preschool years would be a many effective way. Insights from complicated neuroscience await which contention.

Further, a year of preschool costs considerably reduction as well as is distant some-more consequential to a child's destiny than a year during tall school. As a Jesuit wisdom would have it, "Give me a child until he is seven, as well as you will give you a man."

Without quality, a schools would degenerate in to nothing some-more than tellurian warehouses for a young; a teachers, well-paid babysitters. We would have wasted all those changed resources, though a many changed of all is of march all those immature minds. They would be better off out of propagandize as well as guidance a some-more critical lessons of life in a genuine universe instead of being bullied by their peers as well as indoctrinated by a system. Then when they failed, they would be tagged forever as losers, turn in to caricatures of their race, as well as done to bear a weight of ugly stereotypes.

That thought should haunt any one since a overwhelming responsibility of educating a young; further those tasked with reforming a system.

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