Oxford and Cambridge Graduates to Rescue SK?
The Education Ministry must be quite desperate in their quest to save the image of Sekolah Kebangsaan to the extend of asking help from Oxford and Cambridge graduates.
The question is: Why them only?
No doubt both are distinguished and outstanding institutes of higher learning in various fields. However, that does not mean students who studied there for a few years will be able to provide input that will be useful in overcoming the mess that the ministry has cultivated over the last 20 years or so.
The most important thing to do now is to understand the weakness in our entire education system, not just the primary level. Our education system was more or less inherited from our previous colonial masters (UK). Since its implementation began in the 1960s, the system was working fine main because we were following exactly what was practised in UK. Since then, a lot of changes were made to the system under the banner of "localization and national unity". The teaching medium has been changed, education syllabus modified to suit "local interest" and most important of all - cater to the need of NEP.
The latest modification to the system was the implementation of so-called "Meritocracy" in university intake which was implemented nearly 4 years ago to replace the "quota" system.
If we look back, we will see that there was no proper planning since our government began to "tweak" our education system. New policies are implemented on a test-run basis, where young and innocent students are made guinea-pigs out of these experiments. Now, we ended up with a half-baked system where the "final products" are facing huge obstacles in terms of marketing themselves in the "real-world"
Coming back to the subject... Why aren't the views of local educationist being sought after in the road to revamp our entire education system? Are they so inferior to even fresh graduates of renowned universities? Instead of hearing from the people who is directly involved in the profession, our government will use all kinds of ways including UUCA, ISA, Aku Janji etc. to suppress their ideas and suggestions.
Is this the best way to go forward?
Footnote:
I have a son who will be entering the education system in less than 5 years time, I wonder what will the scenario be like given all the uncertainties that is going now...
The question is: Why them only?
No doubt both are distinguished and outstanding institutes of higher learning in various fields. However, that does not mean students who studied there for a few years will be able to provide input that will be useful in overcoming the mess that the ministry has cultivated over the last 20 years or so.
The most important thing to do now is to understand the weakness in our entire education system, not just the primary level. Our education system was more or less inherited from our previous colonial masters (UK). Since its implementation began in the 1960s, the system was working fine main because we were following exactly what was practised in UK. Since then, a lot of changes were made to the system under the banner of "localization and national unity". The teaching medium has been changed, education syllabus modified to suit "local interest" and most important of all - cater to the need of NEP.
The latest modification to the system was the implementation of so-called "Meritocracy" in university intake which was implemented nearly 4 years ago to replace the "quota" system.
If we look back, we will see that there was no proper planning since our government began to "tweak" our education system. New policies are implemented on a test-run basis, where young and innocent students are made guinea-pigs out of these experiments. Now, we ended up with a half-baked system where the "final products" are facing huge obstacles in terms of marketing themselves in the "real-world"
Coming back to the subject... Why aren't the views of local educationist being sought after in the road to revamp our entire education system? Are they so inferior to even fresh graduates of renowned universities? Instead of hearing from the people who is directly involved in the profession, our government will use all kinds of ways including UUCA, ISA, Aku Janji etc. to suppress their ideas and suggestions.
Is this the best way to go forward?
Footnote:
I have a son who will be entering the education system in less than 5 years time, I wonder what will the scenario be like given all the uncertainties that is going now...
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