KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 17 (Bernama) -- The teaching and learning of Science and Mathematics in English (PPSMI) does not negate the status of the Malay language but will ensure that the young can compete globally.Cheras Education Foundation chairman Datuk Syed Ali AlHabshee said PPSMI was needed so that students could grasp the concept of subjects in an international language.
"It will facilitate learning of science and technology as 90 percent of information on science and mathematics is in English," he said in a statement here on Tuesday.
Syed Ali who is also Cheras Umno chief was commenting the move by the Federation of National Writers (Gapena) in lodging a police report against the Education Ministry claiming PPSMI was against the federal constitution and the Education Act 1996.
WE WANT PPSMI TO CONTINUE
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Yes Tunku, I as a father totally agree with your suggestion. Education Ministry must continue current policy to teach math and science in English for the benefit of our childern and also please let parents themselves decide what is best for their children and not those bahasa activist goon.
I think it is another cynical move by the oppositions to erode the trust of the people, especially the Malays, by picking up and sponsoring the issues to portray mass dissatisfaction of public against the present government. The opposition do not have the genuine interest of the people in mind. They are contemptuously selfish and concerned only with their own agenda in gaining power. Knowing very well that issues such as National Language could be a good area to sow the feeling of discord, they therefore strategically pushed the panic button amongst Malays with ludicrous statistics of poor showings of rural Malay students in the said subjects putting the blame squarely on the language policy. But the fact remains that the rural Malay students are generally weak in these subjects even when they were taught in Bahasa Malaysia.
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