Bravo .. new Chinese Secondary School and Tamil Primary School Added to Bandar Seri Alam
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JOHOR BARU: The Federal and State governments are ready and committed to provide quality education at all levels of society, said Johor Mentri Besar Datuk Mohamed Khaled Nordin.
Other than private international higher education institutions in Educity@Nusajaya here, he said that Bandar Seri Alam would be complete as a “City of Knowledge” with the addition of a Chinese high school as well as a new Tamil school that would be built here this year.
“With the building of the new and third branch of Foon Yew High School and soon, a new Tamil school here, it indirectly realises the state government’s wish for Bandar Seri Alam to provide an all-rounded education from kindergarten right up to tertiary education.
“The City of Knowledge is equiped with both private and public schools as well as vernacular schools, which is accessible to all,” he said, adding that it differs from Educity where there were no public education institutions there.
He was speaking to the media after representing Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak in handing over a RM1mil mock cheque for the construction of Foon Yew High School’s third branch.
Mohamed Khaled said that the RM1mil allocation was approved by Najib after Foon Yew applied for an additional branch in conjunction with its 100th anniversary and because its branches in Johor Baru and Kulaijaya were unable to cater to the increasing number of students.
He also said that the state government fully supports Foon Yew’s developments and would help them put in a word to the Education Ministry regarding its application to build the school as soon as possible.
The school would be built on a 9.4ha land in Bandar Seri Alam given by developer Seri Alam Properties Sdn Bhd that has been approved by the Johor government.
Foon Yew High School currently has 10,794 students in both its Johor Baru and Kulaijaya branches.
Besides that, other schools and education institutions found in the City of Knowledge are SJKC Nam Heng, Japanese International School, Maktab Rendah Sains Mara (MRSM), Universiti Kuala Lumpur (UniKL), Asia Metropolitan University (AMU) and Malaysia Art School.