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MCE Results-Ministry of Education must take the blame for the low percentage of passes

MCE Results-Ministry of Education must take the blame for the low percentage of passes

It has been more than a week since the shock MCE results were released-showing a higher percentage of failures in many of the leading schools in the country than previous years.

It is clear tat the main reason for the higher percentage of failures is because of the introduction of the compulsory Bahasa Malaysia paper last year, a failure in which means the failure of the entire examination.

Wherever one goes, throughout the length and breadth of the country, the centre of talk is the MCE examination results because in every town there are large numbers of students who had done well in the examination but still failed the examination because of the compulsory Bahasa Malaysia paper. Many of these students even scored a number of distinctions in other subjects like science, mathematics, hostory, geography, English. Continue reading MCE Results-Ministry of Education must take the blame for the low percentage of passes

DAP MP’s Seminar on First and Second Malaysia Plan

DAP MP’s Seminar on First and Second Malaysia Plan

The second meeting of Parliament is likely to be in June, about two months hence.

The most important parliamentary business will be the government’s presentation of the Second Malaysia Plan.

Such a project will not only involve a debate on the government’s Second Malaysia Plan, which ash not yet been made public, but also a review and critique of the First Malaysia Plan, by comparing its promises with its performance. Continue reading DAP MP’s Seminar on First and Second Malaysia Plan

MCE Results-low percentage of passes

MCE Results-low percentage of passes

The low percentage of passes in many of the leading schools in the country in the recent MCE examination results is a matter of grave concern to all Malaysians, particularly to parents and students.

The DAP calls on the government to give an explanation and analysis of the reasons for the abnormal fall in the percentage of passes in the MCE examination in Malaysia’s leading schools throughout the country.

The government should release figures as to how many candidates had failed the MCE because of the compulsory Bahasa Malaysia paper.
The position where candidates who had several distinctions in the MCE but not making the grade because of their failure in the compulsory Bahasa Malaysia paper is a very serious one. Continue reading MCE Results-low percentage of passes

Standard of Education

I wish here to refer to a burning question in the schools which is connected with the standard of teaching, which is itself not unrelated to the subject of teachers’ salaries.

This is a problem which has been created by the switch of the media of instruction in all National-type (English) primary schools. All National-type (English) Primary Schools have now switched the media of instruction from English to Bahasa Malaysia for Standard One and
Standard Two classes.

For Standard Four and Five classes, all subjects, apart from science and mathematics, are being taught in Bahasa Malaysia. There will be further conversion of the teaching medium so that by the end of this decade, Bahasa Malaysia will be the sole teaching medium in all govt.-aided primary as well as secondary schools. Continue reading Standard of Education

Unemployment the government’s biggest failure

Speech in DAP Secretary-General,Mr.Lim Kit Siang, at the re-election of the new Perak State Standing Sub-Committee in Ipoh on Monday, 29th March 1971 at 5.30 p.m.

Unemployment-the government’s biggest failure

Despite the government’s much-waunted multi-pronged economic policies, the single most important economic and social problem continues to be unemployment, which condemns hundreds of thousands of Malaysians to a sentence of poverty, social humiliation and disgrace.

In 1969, when the Ipoh Municipal Council wanted to fill 21 vacancies for labourers, over 2,000 people jammed the Municipality Padang for the posts. In the same year, when a new hotel in Kuala Lumpur advertised for 110 vacancies for waiters, receptionists, cashiers, bellboys and supervisors, over 4,500 people, including 3,000 School Certificate holders, applied for the positions. Continue reading Unemployment the government’s biggest failure

Fund-raising for Sedition Case against Dr.Ooi Kee Saik and Sdr.Fan Yew Teng

Fund-raising for Sedition Case against Dr.Ooi Kee Saik and Sdr.Fan Yew Teng

Too All Branches

The sedition case against Dr.Ooi Kee Saik and Sdr.Fan Yew Teng is coming up before the Sessions Court on March 29, 1971.

We are applying for the case to be transferred to High Court to be heard by a judge. We are also making an application for the admission of Queen’s Counsel, Sir Dingle Foot, to appear for Sdr.Dr.Ooi Kee Saik.

Retained for Dr.Ooi is also Mr.Peter Mooney. Dato. S.P.Seenivasagam will defend Sdr.Fan Yew Teng. Continue reading Fund-raising for Sedition Case against Dr.Ooi Kee Saik and Sdr.Fan Yew Teng

A letter to Dewan Rakyat Speaker- Informing the Boycott Action

DEMOCRATIC ACTION PARTY

MALAYSIA

COPY

11.3.71

The Speaker,

Dewan Ra’ayat,

Parliament.

Sir,

I have been instructed by my Parliament Group of 13 DAP Members of Parliament to lodge an official protest against the unfair allocation of time for DAP Members in he Constitution Amendment Bill debate and in the debate on the Yang di-Pertuan Agong’s Royal Address. Continue reading A letter to Dewan Rakyat Speaker- Informing the Boycott Action

Government’s aim to eradicate poverty and to strengthen national unity

Speech by Member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka (DAP) Mr.Lim Kit Siang, in the Dewan Ra’ayat on the debate on the Royal Address from the Throne on 9.3.1971

Mr.Speaker, Sir, His Majesty, the Yang di-Peruan Agong, in his Royal Address, spoke of the government’s aim to eradicate poverty and to strengthen national unity.

We do not quarrel with these objectives. But there is considerable room for disagreement as to whether government policies and measures are aimed at these objectives, or whether, on the converse, they can only aggravate economic inequality and undermine national solidarity and unity.

Despite the government’s multi-pronged economic policies, the single most important economic and social problem continues to be unemployment, which condemns hundreds of thousands of Malaysians to a sentences of poverty, social humiliation and disgrace. Continue reading Government’s aim to eradicate poverty and to strengthen national unity

The Sword of Damocles in Parliament

We, members of the Third Malaysian Parliament who have at last taken our rightful places in this Chamber twenty-two months after our election and suspension, have as our first business the 1971 Constitution Amendment Bill.

No more important bill had ever been submitted to Parliament since Merdeka. No more important bill is likely to come before Parliament in future, assuming that there is still a Parliament. Continue reading The Sword of Damocles in Parliament