My say...
Muhyiddin Yassin, our DPM and Education minister said he is stumped as to why the standard of English could not be improved in the curriculum. Isn't it obvious that when the teachers could not string a sentence properly, what do you expect the students to learn? I would hazard a guess that they would also struggle with basic English grammar in that light.
It is time we arrest the ghastly level of English proficiency in our TEACHERS first. Then at least you have a hope in getting the students to learn. Hiring external help is not the solution. The problem is not admitting that our lowly level of education standard and the rate of passing underperforming graduates are the major concern. Only then would hiring professional English lecturers and tutors help. English proficiency decline is therefore but the symptom of his bafflement. Also, having the Information ministry broadcast that learning English is not unpatriotic would actually start pointing to the right direction.
If he was brave enough to revert Science and Mathematics to Bahasa Malaysia soon, I wonder if he has the guts to do away with buckling to the pressure of the ultra conservative Malays and that improving our standard of tertiary education! He is put in such a time like this with the authority to do so. Only time will tell if he can lived up to that expectation.
Muhyiddin Yassin, our DPM and Education minister said he is stumped as to why the standard of English could not be improved in the curriculum. Isn't it obvious that when the teachers could not string a sentence properly, what do you expect the students to learn? I would hazard a guess that they would also struggle with basic English grammar in that light.
It is time we arrest the ghastly level of English proficiency in our TEACHERS first. Then at least you have a hope in getting the students to learn. Hiring external help is not the solution. The problem is not admitting that our lowly level of education standard and the rate of passing underperforming graduates are the major concern. Only then would hiring professional English lecturers and tutors help. English proficiency decline is therefore but the symptom of his bafflement. Also, having the Information ministry broadcast that learning English is not unpatriotic would actually start pointing to the right direction.
If he was brave enough to revert Science and Mathematics to Bahasa Malaysia soon, I wonder if he has the guts to do away with buckling to the pressure of the ultra conservative Malays and that improving our standard of tertiary education! He is put in such a time like this with the authority to do so. Only time will tell if he can lived up to that expectation.
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