Closing down under-enrolled schools, isn't there any other options?
Who is this brilliant chap who has proposed for under-enrolled schools to be closed down? Have the government actually made any studies to the effect? I don't think so!
What is his level of inteligence, actually?
Education must be brought about to the masses, which is actually the responsibility of any caring government, and not closing down schools due to economic reasons alone.
As it is, the schools are being built at odd locations, requiring for parents to seek transportation arrangement to ensure the children would be able to reach schools.
In the olden days, people talk about kids walking kms and kms to get themselves to schools to seek knowledge. That was the importance being put upon them, to seek knowledge to improve themselves.
However, these days, this is something of the extra-ordinary. People use own transport to get to schools which is still located far from the people who needs them. Public transportation is so un-reliable and school buses are always said to be the place where children learns new 'un-wanted' knowledge, completing their academic search in schools.
Anyways, the best approach to be taken to resolve this issue is to look at the real requirment of the nation in providing schools, at the proper locations. The reason for under-enrollment and schools lacking the basic facilities have to be considered and investigated. Then a proper solution to be put in place.
I am in the opinion that schools should be provided at any location when=ever there is a need. What simple modification that needs to be made is the way how the academic is being impart into the schoolchildren. For low enrollment schools, most probably we could seek the employment of multi-subjects teachers who could handle few different subjects for different classses, most probably in a revamped class system. Children could be exposed to the subjects properly by student-centred approach rather than teacher-centred regime currently adopted by most schools.
Rural areas with inferior facilities should be continously up-graded to achieve the minimum standard for any government-sponsored teaching institution, if the government have any REAL concern in education of its citizen.
Or, do they really? The Executives main concern is to get as much money possible into their own coffers, isn't it?
ps: Do you really need residential schools even at the lower primary schools? Shouldn't the children need their parents to be around them to provide guidance in life, as what proper families should live as?
The Star Online > Nation
Monday June 13, 2005
Under-enrolled schools to be closed down
KEMAMAN: The Education Ministry plans to close down under-enrolled schools and those lacking basic facilities in rural areas.
And it is proposing that affected students be relocated to newly-built centralised schools with hostels.
Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein said such a move required political will from mentris besar and chief ministers as well as elected representatives.
“It is easy to call for the opening of more schools but are elected representatives brave in calling for the closing of schools?” he said after opening the All-Malaysia State Religious Secondary Schools Seminar here on Saturday.
He was elaborating on his statement on Friday that 800 schools in remote areas had no electricity and 1,500 had no running water while 2,260 were under-enrolled.
Hishammuddin said the ministry planned to close down these schools in stages.
If this was not done, he said, enrolments would continue to drop and the situation would worsen.
© 1995-2005 Star Publications (Malaysia) Bhd (Co No 10894-D)
What is his level of inteligence, actually?
Education must be brought about to the masses, which is actually the responsibility of any caring government, and not closing down schools due to economic reasons alone.
As it is, the schools are being built at odd locations, requiring for parents to seek transportation arrangement to ensure the children would be able to reach schools.
In the olden days, people talk about kids walking kms and kms to get themselves to schools to seek knowledge. That was the importance being put upon them, to seek knowledge to improve themselves.
However, these days, this is something of the extra-ordinary. People use own transport to get to schools which is still located far from the people who needs them. Public transportation is so un-reliable and school buses are always said to be the place where children learns new 'un-wanted' knowledge, completing their academic search in schools.
Anyways, the best approach to be taken to resolve this issue is to look at the real requirment of the nation in providing schools, at the proper locations. The reason for under-enrollment and schools lacking the basic facilities have to be considered and investigated. Then a proper solution to be put in place.
I am in the opinion that schools should be provided at any location when=ever there is a need. What simple modification that needs to be made is the way how the academic is being impart into the schoolchildren. For low enrollment schools, most probably we could seek the employment of multi-subjects teachers who could handle few different subjects for different classses, most probably in a revamped class system. Children could be exposed to the subjects properly by student-centred approach rather than teacher-centred regime currently adopted by most schools.
Rural areas with inferior facilities should be continously up-graded to achieve the minimum standard for any government-sponsored teaching institution, if the government have any REAL concern in education of its citizen.
Or, do they really? The Executives main concern is to get as much money possible into their own coffers, isn't it?
ps: Do you really need residential schools even at the lower primary schools? Shouldn't the children need their parents to be around them to provide guidance in life, as what proper families should live as?
The Star Online > Nation
Monday June 13, 2005
Under-enrolled schools to be closed down
KEMAMAN: The Education Ministry plans to close down under-enrolled schools and those lacking basic facilities in rural areas.
And it is proposing that affected students be relocated to newly-built centralised schools with hostels.
Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein said such a move required political will from mentris besar and chief ministers as well as elected representatives.
“It is easy to call for the opening of more schools but are elected representatives brave in calling for the closing of schools?” he said after opening the All-Malaysia State Religious Secondary Schools Seminar here on Saturday.
He was elaborating on his statement on Friday that 800 schools in remote areas had no electricity and 1,500 had no running water while 2,260 were under-enrolled.
Hishammuddin said the ministry planned to close down these schools in stages.
If this was not done, he said, enrolments would continue to drop and the situation would worsen.
© 1995-2005 Star Publications (Malaysia) Bhd (Co No 10894-D)
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