Sunday 22 December 2013
SANDAKAN:-Echoing a statement made by International Trade and Industry Minister Mustapa Mohamed on "An urgent overhaul of the country's education system is needed as it is not producing the skills required by the industries" when he commemorate the third anniversary of the Economic Transformation Programme, Member of Parliament Sandakan YB Stephen Wong made his comment today, that when such comment was made by a senior minister, will the BN members and Government have awareness on the issue too?
"According to a report by the World Bank said that, Malaysian students performed worse compared to regional peers in international testing, falling behind the likes of Vietnam. The poor quality of education, it added would undermine Malaysia’s efforts to become a high income economy – a goal Malaysia is aiming to reach six years.
Besides that, according to Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2012 show that Malaysian Mathematics, Reading and Science scored lower than minimum global standard. Just as Malaysian 15-year-olds were found to be three years behind their Singaporean peers, Malaysian teachers were also to be of poorer quality, which only 25 percent were found to be sufficiently proficient," YB Stephen Wong said.
The World Bank said that Malaysia's sharp decline in education quality is best exemplified in the Trends International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) where students scored above international average in 1999 and 2003 but did poorly in 2007 and 2011. Up to 38 percent of students in Malaysia did not meet the minimum benchmarks in Mathematics and Science in 2011, an approximately five times higher than in 1999.
"The World Bank comment that the reasons for this to happen are the flip flop of teaching medium in the education policy, which resulting in disruption of learning and skill acquisition. The ultimate reason is ethnic stratification by the politicization of education," he said.
The World Bank also comment that Malaysia need quality human capital to upgrade the country's education standard.
MP Sandakan hereby condemned the BN Government as they do not treasure the existing human capital, as even STPM graduates with excellent result 4.0 CGPA also not given a place in the local universities, of which they had now been accepted by other country, in the way that our talent human resources being outsource to other countries.
He also stated that even though the Ministry of Education spent RM 270 million for the past 3 years to hire English consulting firms to improve English proficiency, but there are still 70% of the country's English teacher did not do well in the English Language Cambridge Placement Test last year.
"Just as YB Senator Dato’ Sri Idris Jala, Minister in the Prime Minister Department said, the National Education Blueprint will only start bearing fruit in 20 years’ time. Malaysia have been independent for 50 years, what will happen to our country and the education quality after 20 years’ time, if we do not change and upgrade our education policy," He said.
YB Stephen Wong expressed his relief as Mustapa Mohamed finally have such awareness on the country's education. He also hope that other BN leaders will stop "blindfold" their common senses and continue to mislead the people, but to do something improve our country's education standard.
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