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Ramasamy asks Education Ministry to abolish DLP
GEORGE TOWN: Penang Deputy Chief Minister II P. Ramasamy (pix) today told the Education Ministry to abolish the Dual Language Programme...
Dec 29, 2016
Public Policy 2016
We had our fair share of national debates on public policy this year. Two among them were the plain packaging proposal for cigarettes,...
Dec 20, 2016
What do parents say about PT3?
Over the past two years, PT3 results has illicited a split response from the parents. Most believed that the students then were not...
Dec 19, 2016


The highs of international benchmarking
Last month, I attended a talk on pursuing further education in Germany post-Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM). The talk was given by a...
Dec 12, 2016
We Should Follow The European Way To Curb Mat Rempits From Creating Menace On Our Roads
Mat Rempits have been creating menace on the public roads − doing illegal races, pulling off dangerous stunts and daredevil moves, that...
Dec 5, 2016
UPSR A 'Hots' Issue
Students, teachers, parents, and opposition politicians have raised concerns as to whether the implementation of the Higher-Order...
Nov 30, 2016
So what went wrong
It was not just parents and their 12 year old children who were devastated when the UPSR (Ujian Penilaian Sekolah Rendah) results were...
Nov 21, 2016
Putting ‘classy’ back into the classroom
Two weeks ago, I was invited to speak at the annual three-day 8th Johor State English Language Conference 2016, titled English Language...
Nov 21, 2016


Spare the rod, spoil the child?
RECENTLY, pictures of students being made to sit under the sun for going to school late went viral. Parents disapproved of the school’s...
Nov 20, 2016
HOTS syllabus should stay, says PAGE
KUALA LUMPUR: The Parent Action Group for Education Malaysia (PAGE) is of the opinion that the Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) part...
Nov 18, 2016
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