After more than fifty years, the country still has issues with English being spoken and written efficiently? This is totally insane given the fact that the universal language is ENGLISH. This goes to show how backward those leaders are compared to those neighbouring countries. Muhyiddin is one such stupid idiot!!!! Quote: “Well, for one, although modules are in English in universities, the lecturers were still teaching in Bahasa Malaysia. In learning languages, we must always practise and use it frequently but this is not what’s happening in many universities,” he laments. Shah’s predicament is just one of the many facing undergraduates entering the job market. According to media reports quoting officials from the Education Ministry two months ago, 40% of public university graduates in Malaysia were jobless or stuck in mismatched occupations. The Ministry of Higher Education had also stated that 24% of the 184,581 students who graduated were unemployed in 2012, while 24.6% of the 174,464 university students were jobless for more than six months after graduating in 2011. This was due to a number of reasons, including the lack of English language proficiency. If this problem is not addressed, it can stunt economic growth. The government recognises this and is taking steps to rectify the problem. Earlier this month, Education Minister Tan Sri Muhyuddin Yassin announced that the English subject would be made a compulsory pass at public university level. However, the date of implementation is still being discussed. Last year, Muhyiddin had also announced that Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) candidates must pass English to get their SPM certificate by 2016 under the National Education Blueprint 2013-2025. No doubt these announcements are lauded as positive steps in ensuring better-qualified graduates and to help them be more competitive in the market. But are we really helping youths to excel in the English language per se? For starters, what really is a pass, considering our already low standards? Malaysians never used to be poor in the English language. Speak to anyone in their 50s and he’ll tell you that every Malaysian, regardless of race, spoke English well. So how did it get to be this bad? To answer that, we need to go back to history, and a post-independence nationalistic fervour in support of Bahasa Malaysia. In 1956, just a year before independence, Malaya saw its first educational proposal called The Razak Report. Named after then Education Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, its goal was to reform the education system in Malaya. Several recommendations were made to place emphasis on our national language, Bahasa Malaysia, by making it an entry qualification into government service, a compulsory language in government departments and for those aspiring to obtain scholarships from public funds. Unquote https://hornbillunleashed.wordpress/2014/12/22/67035/
Posted on: Thu, 25 Dec 2014 15:38:46 +0000
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