Jul 17, 2017The national language pulse checkThe recent fuss about making it mandatory for potential civil servants to pass SPM Bahasa Melayu (BM), including housemen, who by right...
Jun 5, 2017The perennial dilemma of language and losing our cultureWhen PPSMI (the teaching of Science and Mathematics in English) was introduced in 2003, so much money was spent to prepare teachers to...
Mar 30, 2017More than 100,000 students involved in Dual Language ProgrammeKUALA LUMPUR: A total of 139,197 or 2.9% of primary and secondary school students are involved in the Education Ministry's Dual Language...
Oct 17, 2016A true account of historyHistory as a subject can be a contentious issue. It can be used to serve the agenda of either the government of the day or the authors...
Sep 26, 2016Language used to teach Science and Maths still a major concern for parentsPETALING JAYA: The "soft landing" programme for students studying science and mathematics in English following the scrapping of the PPSMI...