As choosing day draws nearer, we will be asked for reasons as to why we should want to change the Barisan Nasional Government (BN). When the question is put to me, we discuss it people which there is no need to enumerate three, four or 5 reasons. One reason alone is enough for Malaysians to elect the brand brand new government. The reason is which the BN has ruined our tutorial complement as well as put us during the back of during slightest one generation in our tutorial standards as well as standing.
When the country became eccentric in 1957, our tutorial complement was acknowledged to be among the most appropriate in the region. Today, after the key of NEP policies in education, we have been scraping the bottom of the tub in our standards of tutorial feat during all levels.
BN's record
Whether it is in primary, delegate or tertiary education, the rot is clear. Half-literate initial school products which cannot write or speak properly in possibly English or Bahasa Melayu as well as dump out early; delegate students with abysmal standards in Mathematics, Science as well as alternative core subjects; tertiary students who have been provided with university degrees though in actuality have been unemployable except in the polite service.
This is the catastrophic outcome of BN rule. This is the outcome of the politicization of the tutorial complement as well as Umno's cynical make use of of it as the political as well as racial football.
Whether it is with regard to goal schools or vernacular or SRJK schools; training of grant as well as mathematics; training of English; appointment of administrators as well as heads of schools; the cu! rriculum ; examinations; vocational education; funding as well as allocations Umno has extrinsic the racial as well as political agenda to debase as well as hurtful the system.
If readers think which we am over critical of the BN, let me yield dual pieces of evidence upon the disaster in our preparation system.
The initial is from the supervision itself. According to the national preparation plans (preliminary report, Malaysia Education Blueprint 2013-2025, pp, E4-E5):
- Malaysia was ranked in the bottom third of 74 participating countries of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2009+.
- 60% of the 15-year-old Malaysian students who participated in PISA unsuccessful to meet the smallest inclination turn in Mathematics, whilst 44% as well as 43% did not meet the smallest inclination levels in Reading as well as Science respectively
- A comparison of scores shows which 15-year-olds in Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong, as well as Shanghai have been performing as though they have had 3 or some-more years of drill than 15-year-olds in Malaysia
- Low feat standards in TIMSS (Maths as well as Science): distant during the back of initial tier; right away comparable to countries such as Indonesia
- By 2007 (last published cycle) 18% as well as 20% of our students unsuccessful to meet the smallest inclination standards in Maths as well as Science.
The conclusion of the plans is shocking. Not only have been the gaps in between Malaysia as well as alternative countries in our segment growing, general assessments additionally suggested which Malaysian tyro performance is declining in comprehensive terms.
This ban conclusion which we have been going backwards in our preparation standards as well as feat shows which the complaint is not the brand brand new one. It is the long station crisis which the BN has successfully secluded from Malaysians interjection to media manipulation as well as the di! versiona ry concentration upon denunciation as well as Chinese school issues.
But it is no longer easy to dope Malaysians interjection to the Internet media as well as the availability of general comment results.
Hence the ultimate tutorial liaison in which the Ministry of Education is indicted of obscure the maths as well as grant standards for the PMR as well as SPM examinations to artificially enlarge the pass rate does not startle me in the least.
Such efforts have been taking place for the past thirty years, especially in the open universities. How else then to account for the hundreds of thousands of graduates who have been unemployable?
My personal experience
The second piece of evidence is one derived from personal experience. For multiform years now, we have been on condition which scholarships to bad immature Malaysians so which they will be means to go to the university to improve their life as well as career opportunities.
Below have been examples of letters we have received from dual applicants requesting for monetary assistance (details of my grant module have been available fromhttp://english.cpiasia.net/).
What is critical to note is which nonetheless these have been written by pre-university students, the turn of English denunciation competency achieved is lower than which of the initial tyro during my time.
Sadly, they have been not removed cases in actuality they have been typical of students who have been by our tutorial complement as well as whose decrease in standards has been due to BN rule.
Letter 1:
Mr.Koon,
I am ____________,I already take my SPM resul t~ I'm seductiveness upon account. Can we unite me about the investigate fees during Utar?
BM:B
BI:B+
PM:A-
SJ:A-
MM:A+
MT:A+
BIO:B
CHE:B
PHY:B
BC:B
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