Category: Education

Chinese community must be vigilant to ensure that the Boards of Management furore is not a Barisan ‘smoke-screen’ to hide other provisions detrimental to Chinese education

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Penang on Sunday, 20th May 1990:

Chinese community must be vigilant to ensure that the Boards of Management furore is not a Barisan ‘smoke-screen’ to hide other provisions detrimental to Chinese education

The Chinese community and all concerned about mother-tongue education must be vigilant to ensure that the current furore over the Barisan Nasional’s proposal to abolish the Boards of Management of 432 ‘fully-aided’ Chinese primary schools is not a smokescreen to hide other provisions in the 1990 Education Bill which highly detrimental to Chinese education. Continue reading Chinese community must be vigilant to ensure that the Boards of Management furore is not a Barisan ‘smoke-screen’ to hide other provisions detrimental to Chinese education

Kit Siang faxes Anwar Ibrahim for an urgent and immediate briefing for DAP MPs on the 1990 Education Bill

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Saturday, 19th May 1990:

Kit Siang faxes Anwar Ibrahim for an urgent and immediate briefing for DAP MPs on the 1990 Education Bill

I have today sent a fax to the Education Minister, Anwar Ibrahim, asking for an immediate and urgent briefing for DAP MPs on the 1990 Education Bill, which is to be tabled and rushed through Parliament next month. Continue reading Kit Siang faxes Anwar Ibrahim for an urgent and immediate briefing for DAP MPs on the 1990 Education Bill

All DAP Mps will vote against the 1990 Education Bill if MPs and the public are not given adequate time to study and debate the various changes to the education system and law

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at the DAP Ceramah at Pantai Remis on Saturday, 12th May 1990 at 8p.m.

All DAP Mps will vote against the 1990 Education Bill if MPs and the public are not given adequate time to study and debate the various changes to the education system and law

Although MPs have been officially informed by Parliament that the Dewan Rakyat would meet from June 11 and 22, and the Education Minister, Anwar Ibrahim, said that the new 1990 education Bill would be tabled in next month’s Parliament for passage, the MPs have not received anything in writing with regard to the new changes to the education system and law. Continue reading All DAP Mps will vote against the 1990 Education Bill if MPs and the public are not given adequate time to study and debate the various changes to the education system and law

The open support for the repeal of Section 21(2) of the 1961 Education Act by Parti Semangat 46 has finally forced the Barisan Nasional Government to remove this provision

Speech by Parliament Oppositions Leader, Dap Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at the Malacca State DAP forum on the new Education Bill 1990 held at the Meng Seng Charitable Association Hall on Thursday, 10th may 1990 at 9 p.m.

The open support for the repeal of Section 21(2) of the 1961 Education Act by Parti Semangat 46 has finally forced the Barisan Nasional Government to remove this provision

The Barisan National Government has broken its 1986 general elections promise to repeal Section 21(2) of the 1961 Education Act in the first meeting of the Parliament after the 1986 general elections, i.e. by the end of 1986. Continue reading The open support for the repeal of Section 21(2) of the 1961 Education Act by Parti Semangat 46 has finally forced the Barisan Nasional Government to remove this provision

Advice to Anwar Ibrahim to be conscious of his duties to the young generation of students as Education Minister and not to become more and more racialistic with the approach of the general elections

Press Conference Statement (2) by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Penang on Tuesday, 8th May 1990 at 12 noon

Advice to Anwar Ibrahim to be conscious of his duties to the young generation of students as Education Minister and not to become more and more racialistic with the approach of the general elections

In the past few weeks, the Education Minister and UMNO National Vice President, Anwar Ibrahim, is making more and more racialistic statements and speeches. This is because of the approach of the next general elections as well as the as upcoming UMNO Baru party elections. Continue reading Advice to Anwar Ibrahim to be conscious of his duties to the young generation of students as Education Minister and not to become more and more racialistic with the approach of the general elections

Call on Education Minister, Anwar Ibrahim, to explain how long a time he intends to give MPs to study the Education Bill 1990 or he expects all MPs to blindly and unthinkingly vote in support of it in Parliament

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at a ‘Towards Tanjung 2’ dinner organized by Taiping DAP Branch in Taiping on Tuesday, 8th May 1990 at 9 p.m.

Call on Education Minister, Anwar Ibrahim, to explain how long a time he intends to give MPs to study the Education Bill 1990 or he expects all MPs to blindly and unthinkingly vote in support of it in Parliament

Education Minister, Anwar Ibrahim, said that the Education Bill 1990 would be presented at next month’s Dewan Raktyat meeting from June 11 to 22 to be enacted into law. Continue reading Call on Education Minister, Anwar Ibrahim, to explain how long a time he intends to give MPs to study the Education Bill 1990 or he expects all MPs to blindly and unthinkingly vote in support of it in Parliament

Anwar said that he would give DAP MPs a briefing on the Education Bill 1990 after it has been finalize

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Party Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at the DAP Education Bill 1990 Ceramah at Wah Chai Association Hall in Seremban on Tuesday, 5th June at 8 pm

Anwar said that he would give DAP MPs a briefing on the Education Bill 1990 after it has been finalized.

When I met the Education Minister, Anwar Ibrahim, in Kuala Lumpur at Pusat Islam last Friday during the lying-in-state ceremony of the late Tun Hussein Onn, Malaysia’s third Prime Minister, I asked him why he had not responded to my fax two weeks earlier asking for an immediate and urgent briefing for DAP MPs on the Education Bill 1990. Continue reading Anwar said that he would give DAP MPs a briefing on the Education Bill 1990 after it has been finalize

If trade union leaders should be apolitical, then the Minister for Human Resources should set the example and resign as MCA National Vice President or allow a non-politician to be appointed Minister

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, when closing the “Malaysian Indian Economic Congress 1990 organized by the Tamilian Social & Welfare Association at the Chinese Assembly Hall, Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, May 1, 1990 at 5.30 p.m.

If trade union leaders should be apolitical, then the Minister for Human Resources should set the example and resign as MCA National Vice President or allow a non-politician to be appointed Minister

In the last few days, the question of the political role of trade union leaders has resurfaced as a controversy because of the brickbats by Government leaders, led by the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamed, over the decision by the MTUC President, Zainal Rampak, to join Parti Semangat 46. Continue reading If trade union leaders should be apolitical, then the Minister for Human Resources should set the example and resign as MCA National Vice President or allow a non-politician to be appointed Minister

Will MCA, Gerakan and SUPP Ministers resign from the Cabinet if the Chinese community are unhappy and opposed to the Education Act amendments when they are made public?

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and Chairman of the DAP Perak Defend Five Win Six Special Task Force, Lim Kit Siang, at the third Task Force meeting held in Ipoh on Monday, 30th April 1990 at 8 p.m.

Will MCA, Gerakan and SUPP Ministers resign from the Cabinet if the Chinese community are unhappy and opposed to the Education Act amendments when they are made public?

The secretive and mysterious manner in which the Education Act 1961 is being amended, whether by new amendments or by a entirely new Act, has raised widespread and justified fears that such a highly undemocratic process cannot produce results which is acceptable to the people. Continue reading Will MCA, Gerakan and SUPP Ministers resign from the Cabinet if the Chinese community are unhappy and opposed to the Education Act amendments when they are made public?

Anwar Ibrahim has become so ‘politicised’ that he is losing all sense of fairness

Press Conference Statement (3) by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and mp for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Penang on Wednesday, 25th April 1990 at 11 a.m.

Anwar Ibrahim has become so ‘politicised’ that he is losing all sense of fairness

I am surprised by the outburst of the Education Minister, Anwar Ibrahim, after chairing the first meeting of the six-man Cabinet Committee on the Education Act Amendments yesterday. Continue reading Anwar Ibrahim has become so ‘politicised’ that he is losing all sense of fairness