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Oct 13, 2020
Double standards in education
Our education system has not moved much from the period of British colonisation and the strategy of divide and rule. Dating back from the...
Jan 14, 2018
Anti-DLP group does not speak for the majority, say parents
PETALING JAYA: The “group representing parents of children at SJK(T) Vivekananda, Petaling Jaya” does not represent the majority of...
Jan 3, 2018
Why are national schools increasingly unpopular?
PETALING JAYA: An academic has called for a study to find out why enrolment in government-sponsored vernacular schools has been dropping...
Dec 31, 2017
Youthful aspirations: Get rid of ‘spoon-fed’ mentality
Educational civil societies and youth in the Klang Valley have expressed their hopes for 2018, with many calling for a revamp of the...
Dec 30, 2017
An eventful year for education
TODAY is the last day of 2017. While this is the time to make New Year resolutions, it is also the time to reflect on happenings that...
Dec 30, 2017
Keep politics out of our children’s education
WE refer to "Tamil school’s dual-language legal limbo" report in The Malaysian Insight on December 29, 2017. The Education Act 1996...
Dec 28, 2017
Tamil school’s dual-language legal limbo
A SCHOOL in Petaling Jaya will suspend its dual-language programme just a few days before the start of the academic year, pending a legal...
Nov 20, 2017
Employing best practices to transform the education system
Best practices, strategies, tactics that work to achieve greater performance for students and schools should not just be a showcase of...
Jun 5, 2017
The perennial dilemma of language and losing our culture
When PPSMI (the teaching of Science and Mathematics in English) was introduced in 2003, so much money was spent to prepare teachers to...
May 31, 2017
School told to stop dual language programme or face action
PETALING JAYA: Pressure is mounting on the head of the Vivekananda Tamil school here to stop implementing the Dual Language Programme...
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