Category: Education

Call on the Ministry of Education to build a national primary school at Bukit Fraser to respect the wishes of the people

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at a DAP Raub by-election ceramah held at Bukit Fraser, Raub, on Sunday, 29th May 1983 at 10 a.m

Call on the Ministry of Education to build a national primary school at Bukit Fraser to respect the wishes of the people.

It will be no exaggeration to say that all these years since Merdeka, when Pahang was governed under virtual political monopoly of the Barisan Nasional government, many areas were neglected and forgotten. One of these areas is Bukit Fraser. Continue reading Call on the Ministry of Education to build a national primary school at Bukit Fraser to respect the wishes of the people

DAP calls for the immediate restoration of allocations for Pupil’s Own Language as a mark of government commitment to fully respect the constitutional right of mother-tongue learning and teaching.

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the Penang DAP Wanita inaugural meeting held at Bukit Mertajam DAP premises on Saturday, 7.5.1983 at 8 p.m.

DAP calls for the immediate restoration of allocations for Pupil’s Own Language as a mark of government commitment to fully respect the constitutional right of mother-tongue learning and teaching.

The Pupil’s Own Language programme in the schools is a scandal and disgrace, especially after the arbitrary and deplorable decision to cut the original allocation of $18 million for POL by $13 million, resulting in the reduction of the allowances of college-trained teachers from $20 to $5 an hour, and of graduate teachers from $25 to $8 an hour. Continue reading DAP calls for the immediate restoration of allocations for Pupil’s Own Language as a mark of government commitment to fully respect the constitutional right of mother-tongue learning and teaching.

Advice to Dr. Koh Tsu Koon to stop playing a destructive role in Parliament in blocking or sabotaging the DAP’s Parliamentary efforts in the cause of Chinese education.

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at a DAP Temiang Branch dinner in Seremban on Sunday, 20.3.1983 at 8 pm.

Advice to Dr. Koh Tsu Koon to stop playing a destructive role in Parliament in blocking or sabotaging the DAP’s Parliamentary efforts in the cause of Chinese education.

Last Tuesday, the nine DAP MPs jointly condemned the Gerakan MP for Tanjong, Dr. Koh Tsu Koon, for his leading role in Parliament’s first day of sitting on 14th March 1983 in killing the DAP motion on Chinese education and Chinese primary schools to ensure that Chinese primary schools would never fear conversion by repealing Clause 21(2) of the 1961 Education Act. Continue reading Advice to Dr. Koh Tsu Koon to stop playing a destructive role in Parliament in blocking or sabotaging the DAP’s Parliamentary efforts in the cause of Chinese education.

An Open Letter to Tung / Chiau Chung officials, in particular Mr. Lim Fong Seng, who campaigned for Barisan Nasional against the DAP in the April 1982 general elections

Press Conference statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at DAP Petaling Jaya headquarters on Wednesday, 16.3.1983 at 12.30pm.

An Open Letter to Tung / Chiau Chung officials, in particular Mr. Lim Fong Seng, who campaigned for Barisan Nasional against the DAP in the April 1982 general elections to declare their stand on Dr. Koh Tsu Koon’s role as chief executioner to kill the Chinese education motion in Parliament.

I am calling this press conference to issue an open letter to the Tung / Chiau Chung officials, in particular Mr. Lim Fong Seng, who had campaigned for Barisan Nasional against the DAP in the April 1982 general elections to declare their stand on Dr. Koh Tsu Koon’s role in Parliament last Monday as ‘chief executioner’ to kill the Chinese education motion on eternal preservation of Chinese primary schools. Continue reading An Open Letter to Tung / Chiau Chung officials, in particular Mr. Lim Fong Seng, who campaigned for Barisan Nasional against the DAP in the April 1982 general elections

DAP propose the exclusion of private universities like the proposed Merdeka University from the operations of the Universities and University Colleges Act to help supplement the government’s university education programme

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in the Dewan Rakyat on Wednesday, December 8, 1982 on the 1982 Universities and University Colleges Amendment Bill

DAP propose the exclusion of private universities like the proposed Merdeka University from the operations of the Universities and University Colleges Act to help supplement the government’s university education programme

The government has introduced the 1982 Universities and University Colleges Amendment Bill to pave the way for the establishment of the Islamic University by providing for the exclusion from the operation of the Universities and University Colleges Act 1971 any higher educational institution with the status of a university established under any treaty, agreement or convention between Malaysia and any other country or any international organisation. Continue reading DAP propose the exclusion of private universities like the proposed Merdeka University from the operations of the Universities and University Colleges Act to help supplement the government’s university education programme

The Sixth University

Speech by Parliament Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang in Dewan Rakyat on the estimates for the Ministry of Education on November 19, 1982

Every year, there is bad news for Malaysian students who aspire for higher education opportunities. Last month, it was announced that Australian education opportunities. Last month, it was announced that overseas students beginning next year. The quota system which so far limits entry into the medical courses in the Australian universities will be extended to cover other courses.

With a very restrictive policy governing entry into the five local universities, the unrelenting diminution of higher education places overseas at ever higher and exorbitant costs is making higher education one of the most frustrating and exasperating experiences both for the students and their parents. Continue reading The Sixth University

Merdeka University judgment ‘the biggest setback for Chinese Education in the last 25 years since Merdeka’

Speech by DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the Penang DAP State Thousand-People 16th Anniversary Dinner in Penang on Saturday, 24.7.1982

Merdeka University judgment ‘the biggest setback for Chinese Education in the last 25 years since Merdeka’

Malaysia will be celebrating its 25th National Day Celebrations next month. In these 25 years, Malaysian Chinese had struggled to ensure that in the Malaysian society, Chinese education would have its rightful and proper place. Continue reading Merdeka University judgment ‘the biggest setback for Chinese Education in the last 25 years since Merdeka’

The DAP’s political struggle in Parliament and outside in the last 16 years on Chinese education, language and culture has been greatly undermined by the joining of Gerakan of individual UCSCA officials

Press Conference Statement by DAP Secretary-General, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Thursday, April 1, 1982:

The DAP’s political struggle in Parliament and outside in the last 16 years on Chinese education, language and culture has been greatly undermined by the joining of Gerakan of individual UCSCA officials

The DAP views with sadness the latest political development where certain UCSCA officials, as a result of ‘collective decision’, joining the Gerakan on the eve of the 1982 general elections. Continue reading The DAP’s political struggle in Parliament and outside in the last 16 years on Chinese education, language and culture has been greatly undermined by the joining of Gerakan of individual UCSCA officials

Lim Kit Siang rebuts Dr. Mahathir and wants Prime Minister to explain what is wrong in the DAP asking the people opposed to the implementation of 3M in Chinese and Tamil primary schools to express themselves in the general election

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader and DAP Secretary-General, Lim Kit Siang, at a dinner organised by the Cheras Jaya DAP Branch on Saturday, 20th February 1982, at 7.30p.m.

Lim Kit Siang rebuts Dr. Mahathir and wants Prime Minister to explain what is wrong in the DAP asking the people opposed to the implementation of 3M in Chinese and Tamil primary schools to express themselves in the general election.

In his speech when opening the 3-day UMNO information course in Kuala Lumpur yesterday, the Prime Minister, Dr. Mahathir, charged that an opposition party had turned the 3M issue into a racial issue and that another party had fallen into its traps. He also criticised opposition parties for creating doubts among the people by turning non-issues to issues for their own political gain. Continue reading Lim Kit Siang rebuts Dr. Mahathir and wants Prime Minister to explain what is wrong in the DAP asking the people opposed to the implementation of 3M in Chinese and Tamil primary schools to express themselves in the general election

Call on Deputy Education Minister, Datuk Chan Siang Sun, not to mislead the people about the 3M

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, at a meeting organised by the Tamil Literary Society to discuss the effects of the 3M system on Tamil primary schools held on Sunday, 14th February, 1982 at 9.30 a.m. at the Transport Workers’ Union Hall, P. Jaya.

Call on Deputy Education Minister, Datuk Chan Siang Sun, not to mislead the people about the 3M

The Deputy Education Minister, Datuk Chan Siang Sun, said in Ipoh on Friday that the government had taken an enlightened attitude on the 3M issue and had acceded to public request, particularly in having the 3M teachers’ manuals written in the respective mother tongue languages. Continue reading Call on Deputy Education Minister, Datuk Chan Siang Sun, not to mislead the people about the 3M