Happenings lately......

Busy times are catching up with me. Stupid Human Factors now needs me to do some utterly useless research for some debate which make no sense. Why should someone ever debate on a fact? Hence a waste of valuable learning capacity doing something for the dumb(the lecturers) for no reason.



While fuzzing through all these dismay, I manage to stump upon an interesting topic from our government



Decision on medium for teaching Science and Maths after analysis


PETALING JAYA: The Education Ministry will carry out an in-depth analysis of the Ujian Pencapaian Sekolah Rendah (UPSR) results before presenting its findings at a roundtable discussion.


Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein said he would present the recommendations from the roundtable and results from other studies conducted by the ministry to the Cabinet.


“Only then will a final decision be made on whether to continue teaching Science and Mathematics in English or go back to Bahasa Malaysia.


“The UPSR results are not the only factor which will be used to decide as we need to look at other studies as well as the views of stakeholders expressed earlier,” he said in a statement. The policy of teaching Science and Mathematics in English was implemented in phases, beginning with Year One, Form One and Lower Six students in 2003.


The 518,616 pupils who sat for the UPSR this year were the first group to have started studying the two subjects in English since the policy was introduced. Education director-general Datuk Alimuddin Mohd Dom said he would chair the roundtable discussion early next month.


“Stakeholders who attended earlier roundtable discussions will be invited to attend,” he told The

Star.


Alimuddin also dispelled rumours that some schoolchildren who wou-ld be starting Year One next year had received Science and Mathematics textbooks in Bahasa Malaysia. “That’s not possible, and I want anyone who has received such books to write to me personally,” he said.
He added that schools would only distribute textbooks for next year one week before classes were to start.



Decision to return teaching in Malay? It would be absolutely foolish for anyone to take such acts. It will turn the country in to its own ice age, isolated from the rest of the world. Anyone who has taken the SPM in Malay know that they will have to do some catch up when they enter universities as modules are all taught in English. To make the matter worse, many foreign universities DO NOT recognise our qualification based on merely the fact that the teaching medium is in Malay Language. The government had already put enough Malaysians in trouble before they even enter tertiary education and finally decided to alleviate our grieves by changing certain subjects back into English, Now they want to revert back? Those who has the slightest thought of supporting this act will kill the country.

Even with such subjects like maths and science taught in English, it is still not sufficient to justify the standard of our paper qualification. I propose and entire revamp of the system. Look what have Singapore done. They have stuck ed to the roots of education by retaining the Cambridge GCE 'O' Levels in it's system, and thus understanding the essence of recognisable qualification which lies in the origin of the subjects itself. During the good old days where our forefathers took the MCE(malaysian certificate of examination), only a handful can score and A, and during then Malayan university was one of the top ranking in the world, why? Its because it was based on the cambridge system and hence gained world wide recognition.

Its time we return to the time where our education system supersedes those in the other parts of asia. Start changing it back into and entirely english education system and slowly progressing towards GCE recognition. Make Malaysians proud by giving us a chance to receive world class education, and with that a world wide recognition. Its time to reconcile, Minister of Education. We are too far behind, and you have failed miserably in your duty. Give us what we want and not what you feel we should have.