Examination-centric education kills creativity. It produces passive students and diminishes their skills. In fact, low skill development is partly due to exam-centric education. This culture also inhibits effective teaching and learning. These are some of the headlines...

As readers flick through the pages of The Edge on Saturday, I will be at Nottingham University, England, upon the invitation of the UKEC (United Kingdom and Eire Council for Malaysian Students) to speak at its prestigious Projek Amanat Negara, whose patron is the chair...

While we welcome and appreciate Minister of Education Dr Maszlee Malik’s direction to revamp the education system via new developments in pedagogical methods and the adoption of social and emotional learning — of love, happiness and mutual respect — we wonder if these...

All things being equal, a country’s development is dependent on the quality of its people.” — Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad

With this philosophy in mind, it was no wonder that Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad wanted to take over the education portfolio once again but al...

As the world prepares for the fourth industrial revolution or Industry 4.0, there is much debate on the relevance of the current school system, content transmission, examination-oriented preparation and standardised national curriculum to this day and age. At the momen...

From the time my children were in national school (they are now in their twenties), parents have had to contend with seasonal teacher absenteeism. It was especially bad during the sports season as 25% of the teachers would accompany students for competitions and there...

Setting common goals and coming to a consensus on achieving our vision of making the national school the school of choice is the easy part.

Now, how do we turn around a school system that is weighed down by a trust deficit, trapped in a web of insufficient budget, lack...

Pakatan Harapan (PH) has now been in power for more than 100 days. As far as the education portfolio is concerned, the new minister has had his fair share of brickbats. Everyone knows it is a Herculean task to revamp the education system, yet the rakyat expect a miracl...

Sekinchan-born Datuk Pua Khein Seng is world-famous for inventing the pen drive. Educated in a Chinese independent school in Selangor, he completed his secondary education and qualified with a Unified Examination Certificate (UEC). The path he chose enabled him to purs...