Category: Education

Speech by DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, at a joint meeting of the Bukit Bintang DAP Brach and the Pudu DAP Branch at the Bukit Bintang DAP Branch premises at Jalan Treacher, Kuala Lumpur on Sunday, 24th Oct. 1971 at 8 p.m. at the end of his two inspection tour of the Bukit Nanas constituency

The basis problems of Chinese Education in Malaysia

For the past several weeks, Chinese school teachers and the Chinese press have been pre-occupied with the Aziz Report and its recommendations.

Much as the Chinese teachers should fight for improved salary scales, and much as the public should support them, the Chinese school teachers should never lose sight of the basic problems and issues of Chinese education in the country. Continue reading The basis problems of Chinese Education in Malaysia

Speech by DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, at the official opening of the first DAP Rural Office in Malacca at Pulau Gadong on Friday, 15th October 1971 at 4 p.m.

The Grave Problem of School drop-outs in Malacca

The opening or the Office of the DAP Rural Affairs Sub-Committee in Malacca in Pulau Gadong today marks the first positive result of the DAP’s expansion drive into the rural areas. The Rural Affairs Office in Pulau Gadong serves the people in the surrounding areas, and tries to help solve the people’s problem.

One of the biggest problem in Malacca and the country is the poverty of the people, both in rural and urban areas, This problem is highlighted by the very grave problem of school drop-outs. Continue reading The Grave Problem of School drop-outs in Malacca

Speech by DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, at the official opening of the Malacca State DAP Headquarters at 33A Jalan Munshi Abdullah, Malacca on Friday, 1st October 1971 at 6.30 p.m. The function is also an anniversary celebration of the release of Lim Kit Siang from political detention.

Proposal for a National Conference on problems and future of Chinese Education in Malaysia

The DAP has formed an Education Bureau to make in depth study of education problems and issues in Malaysia.

The DAP Education Bureau, headed by Dr. Chen Man Hin, M.P. for Seremban Timor, has as members: Continue reading Proposal for a National Conference on problems and future of Chinese Education in Malaysia

MCE Failures: DAP Calls for more sympathetic approach by Minister of Education

The DAP is shocked at the unsympathetic and inflexible attitude shown by the Minister of Education, Inche Hussein Onn, towards the 7,500 failures in last year’s MCE Examination because of failure in the compulsory Bahasa Malaysia paper.

Inche Hussein Onn has refused to allow those who would have qualified to proceed to Form Six if they had passed the Bahasa Malaysia paper to enter From Six with the proviso that they repeat the MCE Bahasa Malaysia paper at the end of the year.

All that Inche Hussein Onn would undertake is to ‘do his best’ to retain them in Fifth Form classes ‘if enough places were available’. Continue reading DAP Calls for more sympathetic approach by Minister of Education

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

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

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