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PressRelease-2013-Re-establish State Education Policy Under State Control - Jeffrey-24 September 2013
PressRelease-2013-Re-establish State Education Policy Under State Control - Jeffrey-24 September 2013
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This funding is more critical and justifiable in Sabah where in many Chinese schools the enrolment of non-Chinese students is more than one-third and in some instances where some students have to be turned away for lack of vacancies. The Chinese and business communities can still play their part and with the additional funding from the Sabah government, the Chinese schools can focus more on educational teaching and development. After 50 years of Malaysia, education and human capital development in Sabah appears to have regressed and not progressed as it should have. Instead of building and moulding towering Sabahans like in the good old days of British rule, the stories now are of school dropouts, indiscipline, truancy, poor command of basic languages and mother-tongue, lack of skills and of course control from the federal leading to poor administration and poor quality and bad planning and implementation of school projects. The time has come for the Sabah government to seriously review and re-assess the education policy and administration in Sabah with the re-establishment of Sabahs own Ministry of Education and a vision towards building towering Sabahans that will drive the growth of Sabah into a developed nation status.