Foreign Language Test not 121 or 122 English

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Student who want to continue Junior College or any College or Diploma or Degree shall pass Foriegn Language Test and not 121 Advance English or 122 English second Language. I hope my father Dr Tun can understand.

PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia: Parents should think about the future of their children when deciding whether to agree or to oppose the Government's proposal to make a pass in English compulsory for a student to pass the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia, said former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

He said, English was a necessary component for students to get good jobs once they leave school or for them to go overseas for further education nowadays.

He said that when commenting on Education Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin's statement that the ministry was mulling the possibility of making English a compulsory subject for passing SPM.


He said if parents continued to reject the importance of the English language in their children's education, then the future of the country would be at stake.

He also slammed those who oppose the move saying that these people were less concerned about education than politics.

"It is more like politics than education. They are not interested in education or acquiring knowledge. All they want to see is how many votes they can win. So I am afraid the country will go to the dogs," he told reporters after being conferred a honorary Doctorate of Humanity by the Limkokwing University of Creative Technology yesterday.

Asked about the possibility that the policy on the teaching of Mathematics and Science in English would be scrapped Dr Mahathir said: "I feel very sorry. In future, all Malays and Malaysians will be stupid."

Earlier, he received the honorary doctorate from university president Professor Emeritus Tan Sri Lim Kok Wing. -The Star/ANN

 

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during his time as pm, maths n science were taught in wat language? ...

 

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Tun Mamak Taik was the one who implemented all those Bahasa Melayu nonsense and the "buy British last" campaign in the early 80's.

He got what he wished for, an entire generation down the drain in English proficiency.

 

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Tsunami 2008 mean Pro 1963 Bangsa Malaysia win in Malaysia. English is Foreign Language, we are no longer under British. Malaysia, Merdeka Merdeka Merdeka!

 

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Malaysian born after 1963 had been train in Bahasa Malaysia shall support Bahasa Malaysia. Bahasa Malaysia shall support Siam Language, Tamil Language, Arab Language and Mandrin Language to build colorful or multicolor Malaysia and not mono color foreign language English.

Pro British shall respect younger Malaysia that born after 1963

 

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Abdul Rahman began his education in 1909 at a Malay Primary School, Jalan Baharu, in Alor Star and was later transferred to the Government English School, now the Sultan Abdul Hamid College, Alor Star, where he studied during the day and read the Qur'an in the afternoon.

When he first went to school in Alor Star, Kedah, little Tunku screamed against what he considered was the indignity of being carried to and fro by a Court retainer. Royalty was autocratic those days and little princes were not supposed to dirty their feet, hence they were carried everywhere. The Tunku rejoiced the day he didn’t have to be carried to school.

Two years later in 1911, when he was eight, he was sent to study at Debsirin School in Bangkok along with his three brothers. In 1915, he returned and continued his studies at Penang Free School.

In 1918, Abdul Rahman was awarded a Kedah State Scholarship to further his studies at St Catharine's College in the University of Cambridge, where he obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1925. He was the first student from Kedah to study in the United Kingdom under the sponsorship of the Kedah State Government.
Prior to joining St Catherine's, he was being coached in the little village of Little Stukeley in Huntingdon, England for entry to a public school

The Tunku was fond of fast driving during his days in England and had amounted 28 traffic offences.
He is also said to be quite superstitious. He does not cut his hair or nails on Friday or walk under a ladder.

 

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Born in Pulau Keladi,Pekan, Pahang on March 11, 1922, Tun Razak is the first of two child to Dato' Hussein bin Mohd Taib and Hajah Teh Fatimah bt Daud. Of aristocratic descent, Abdul Razak studied at the Malay College Kuala Kangsar.

After joining the Malay Administrative Service in 1939, he was awarded a scholarship to study at Raffles College in Singapore in 1940. His studies at the college ceased with the onset of the Second World War. During the war he helped organize the Wataniah resistance movement in Pahang.[1]

After World War II, Tun Razak left for Britain in 1947 to study law. In 1950 he received a law degree and qualified as barrister at Lincoln's Inn in London. During his student days in England, Tun Razak was a member of the British Labour Party and a prominent student leader of the Kesatuan Melayu Great Britain (Malay Association of Great Britain). He also formed the Malayan Forum, an organisation for Malayan students to discuss their country's political issues.

 

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Tun Hussein received his early education in Singapore and at the English College in Johor Bahru. After leaving school, he joined the Johor Military Forces as a cadet in 1940 and was sent a year later to the Indian Military Academy in Dehradun, India. Upon completion of his training, he was absorbed into the Indian Army and served in the Middle East when the Second World War broke. After the war, his vast experience prompted the British to employ him as an instructor at the Malayan Police Recruiting and Training Centre in Rawalpindi.

Tun Hussein came back to Malaysia in 1945 and was appointed Commandant of the Johor Bahru Police Depot. The following year he joined the Malaya Civil Service as an assistant administrative officer in Segamat, Johor. He was later posted to the state of Selangor, becoming Klang and Kuala Selangor’s district officer.

Tun Hussein, who came from a family with deep nationalistic spirit and political roots, resigned from the civil service to go into politics. In 1949, he became the first youth chief of UMNO (United Malays National Organization), a party his father helped established. In 1950, he was elected the UMNO secretary general. Tun Hussein however left UMNO in 1951 to join his father in forming the Independence of Malaya Party (IMP).

With IMP losing momentum, Tun Hussein went to London to study law at Lincoln's Inn, qualifying as a Barrister-at-Law. He came back as a certified lawyer and practiced in Kuala Lumpur.

 

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Mahathir was born in Alor Star, the capital of the northern Malaysian state of Kedah,[6] the youngest of nine children[7] of a schoolteacher and a housewife. His father, Mohamad Iskandar, was of half-Indian origin, being the son of a Malayalee Muslim (who migrated from Kerala) and a Malay mother, while Mahathir's own mother, Wan Tampawan, was Malay.[8]

During World War II, he sold pisang goreng (banana fritters) and other snacks to supplement his family income during the Japanese occupation of Malaya. Mahathir attended a Malay vernacular school before continuing his education at the Sultan Abdul Hamid College in Alor Star. Mahathir then attended the King Edward VII Medical College (the predecessor of present-day National University of Singapore) in Singapore, where he edited a medical student magazine called The Cauldron; he also contributed to the The Straits Times newspaper anonymously under the nickname "Che Det". Mahathir was also President of the Muslim Society in the college.[9] Upon graduation in 1953, Mahathir joined the then Malayan government service as a medical officer. He married Siti Hasmah Mohd Ali—a fellow doctor and former classmate in college—on 5 August 1956, and left government service in 1957 to set up his own private practice in Alor Star. Mahathir thrived in private practice, and allowed him to own by 1959 a Pontiac Catalina and employ an ethnic Chinese chauffeur (at the time, almost all chauffeurs in Malaysia were Malays, owing to the economic dominance of the ethnic Chinese).[10] Some critics have suggested this foreshadowed a later hallmark of Mahathir's politics, which focused on the "cultivation of such emblems of power".[11]

From his marriage with Tun Dr. Siti Hasmah binti Haji Mohamad Ali, they have seven children,[12] four sons and three daughters: Marina Mahathir, Mirzan Mahathir, Melinda Mahathir, Mokhzani Mahathir, Mukhriz Mahathir, Maizura Mahathir and Mazhar Mahathir. [13] Both Mukhriz and Mokhzani [14] are involved in business as well as in politics while their eldest daughter Marina is a prominent local writer and AIDS activist.[15]

He successfully underwent a heart bypass operation in 1989 at age 63.[13]

 

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Abdullah Badawi was born in Kampung Perlis, Bayan Lepas, Penang to a prominent religious family. Badawi's paternal grandfather, Syeikh Abdullah Badawi Fahim, was of Arab descent.[3] Syeikh Abdullah was a well-respected religious leader and nationalist, was one of the founding members of Hizbul Muslimin, later known as PAS. After independence, Syeikh Abdullah became the first mufti of Penang. [4] His father, Ahmad Badawi, was a prominent religious figure and UMNO member. His maternal grandfather, Ha Su-chiang (also known as Hassan), was a Chinese Muslim who came from Sanya in Hainan.[5]

Abdullah Badawi is a former student of Bukit Mertajam High School. After failing to enrol into his first choice course, economics, Badawi opted for a less to pursue a Bachelor of Arts in Islamic Studies from the University of Malaya in 1964.

Made in Malaysia

 

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Najib is the eldest of Abdul Razak's five sons (the other four being Dato' Ahmad Johari, Dato' Mohd Nizam, Dato' Mohd Nazim, and Dato' Seri Mohd Nazir). His younger brother, Dato' Seri Mohd Nazir Abdul Razak[2], runs the country's second-largest lender, Bumiputra-Commerce Holdings Bhd.[3] Being the son of the second Prime Minister of Malaysia, and a nephew of Tun Hussein Onn, the third Prime Minister of Malaysia, Najib is regarded by Malaysians as a political blue blood. In 1976 he married Tengku Puteri Zainah Tengku Eskandar ('Ku Yie') with whom he had three children: Mohd Nizar Najib (born 1978), Mohd Nazifuddin Najib and Puteri Norlisa Najib. In 1987 he divorced Ku Yie and married Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor with whom he had two children: Mohd Norashman Najib and Nooryana Najwa Najib.

Najib was born in in Kuala Lipis, Pahang, and he received his primary and secondary education at St. John's Institution, Kuala Lumpur. He later attended Malvern College in Worcestershire, England, and subsequently attended the University of Nottingham, where he received a bachelor's degree in industrial economics in 1974.
Najib holds the title of Orang Kaya Inderapura Shahbandar of Pahang Darul Makmur.

 

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Muhyiddin was born in Muar, Johor. His father, Muhammad Yassin bin Mohammad, is one of the famous theologian in Bandar Maharani, Muar, Johor. In 1972, he married Puan Sri Noorainee Abdul Rahman with whom they had four children: Fakhri Yassin, Nabilah, Najwa and Farhan Yassin.

He received his primary education at Sekolah Kebangsaan Maharani, Muar, Johor and Sekolah Kebangsaan Ismail, Muar, Johor. After then, he received his secondary education at High School Muar (Sekolah Tinggi Muar), Johor. Subsequently, he attended Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur and received his bachelor's degree in Economics and Malay Studies(1971).

Made in Malaysia

 

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Lee was educated at Telok Kurau Primary School, Raffles Institution, and Raffles College. Made in English Elite School

His university education was delayed by World War II and the 1942-1945 Japanese occupation of Singapore. During the occupation, he operated a successful black market business selling tapioca-based glue called Stikfas.[5]

Having taken Chinese and Japanese lessons since 1942, he was able to collaborate as a transcriber of Allied wire reports for the Japanese, as well as being the English-language editor on the Japanese Hodobu (報道部 — an information or propaganda department) from 1943 to 1944.[6][7]

After the war, he studied law at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge in the United Kingdom, of which he was subsequently made an honorary fellow (graduating with Double Starred First Class honours), and briefly attended the London School of Economics. He returned to Singapore in 1949 to practise as a lawyer in Laycock and Ong, the legal practice of John Laycock, a pioneer of multiracialism who, together with A.P. Rajah and C.C. Tan, had founded Singapore's first multiracial club open to Asians.

Made in United Kingdom

 

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PENANG, June 9 (Bernama) -- Former Education Minister Tan Sri Musa Mohammad said the proposal to make it compulsory to pass the English language in the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) examination can be implemented provided that there are quality English teachers available.

He described the move as a good start to ensure that students had a good command of English but reminded that "the idea must be dealt with professionally".

Musa said greater efforts must be made to enable the students, especially those in the rural areas, to pass the English paper if it became a compulsory subject in the SPM.

"It is easy to make policy statement but not easy to implement it, unless with a strong will," he told reporters after attending a conference on Management in Construction Researchers Association (MiCRA) in Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), here Tuesday.

Also present at the press conference were USM Vice-Chancellor Prof Tan Sri Dzulkifli Abdul Razak and Penang Malay Contractors Association president Datuk Mohamed Fadzil Hassan.

Musa said the Education Ministry should look into its operation system and the ability of the government to implement it.

On the USM technical error in student enrolment, Musa, who was a former Vice-Chancellor of the university, urged the public to give more time to the university to handle the mistake.

"I share the upset felt by parents and students. USM should apologize directly to everyone of them. At the same time, we should be in the position of encouragement and allow USM to continue its efforts to become an excellent university," he said.

Earlier, Mohamed Fadzil said the two-day MiCRA conference was timely in view of the collapse of part of the roof of the Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin Stadium in Terengganu recently.

"We hope this conference could come out with some alternative solutions to improve construction quality in the country and to overcome human error and negligence in the future," he said.

Meanwhile in KUALA LUMPUR, the National Union of the Teaching Profession (NUTP) also expressed its support to the proposal.

It's secretary-general, Loke Yim Pheng, said that it was a good move but the government must ensure the availability of quality English teachers before implementing the policy.

"Before implementing it, the government needs to make sure that there are enough qualified English teachers," she told Bernama when contacted today.

In addition, she said, the government must also consider students living in the suburbs and rural areas who had poor command of the English language.

"Some students are poor in English, but they are good in other subjects. It's unfair for them if they fail in English and cannot get the SPM certificate," she said.

Yesterday, Deputy Prime Minister and Education Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin threw this question to the public to be discussed, and for the government to obtain feedback.

 

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New Malaysia, New National Bahasa Malaysia, Now 33.3% in Parlaiment next 66.6% or 100.0%


Jangan Politikkan Isu Bahasa

09 Jun 2009

Wanita KEADILAN memandang serius terhadap BN yang masih lagi bermain sandiwara dan mempermainkan masa depan anak-anak bangsa dengan sekali lagi mempolitikkan isu bahasa dalam pendidikan sekolah.

Kerajaan BN sepatutnya mengutamakan kepentingan rakyat dan belajar dari kegagalan mereka dalam isu PPSMI. PPSMI yang dijalankan lebih dari 5 tahun dulu kini semakin menampakkan kepincangan ’politik pendidikan’ oleh BN. Mereka sendiri yang membuka pekung bahawa Bahasa Inggeris yang digembar-gemburkan itu hanya sekadar untuk komunikasi dan lintang pukang nahunya (tatabahasa). Alangkah sedihnya masa anak-anak bangsa dibazirkan demi ego ahli politik!

Wanita KEADILAN menyeru agar BN berhenti beretorik bahawa mereka peduli kesan ’Wajib lulus Bahasa Inggeris untuk lulus SPM’ kepada pelajar luar bandar. Dalam keadaan dunia berhadapan cabaran globalisasi; Kerajaan Malaysia sepatutnya bercita-cita tinggi dan menzahirkan aspirasi negara melalui taraf pendidikan berkualiti tinggi sejajar dengan pendidikan dunia agar anak-anak bangsa tidak tempang bersaing dengan rakan-rakan global mereka di persada antarabangsa.

Tetapi oleh kerana pendidikan di Malaysia dihasilkan berdasarkan retorik politik BN; maka negara Malaysia masih dihantui masalah pendidikan di takuk lama yang membantutkan pencapaian negara.


YB HAJJAH ZURAIDA KAMARUDDIN
Ketua Wanita KEADILAN

 

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Oleh : Muhammad Yusri Amin
Monday, 18 May 2009
KOTA BHARU, 18 Mei - Masihkah anda ingat peristiwa berdarah 13 Mei 1969. Rusuhan kaum yang mencatat sejarah hitam negara ekoran kegagalan kerajaan Perikatan (Barisan Nasional) menyusun masyarakat secara adil.


Berdasar kepada kajian, peristiwa berdarah itu berlaku kerana polisi kerajaan yang tidak seimbang antara kaum.



Naib Presiden PAS, Dato' Husam Musa berkata, pemimpin Umno yang mengetuai kerjaaan Perikatan gagal mengurus penyusunan masyarakat sehingga menyebabkan orang Melayu dan orang Cina bermusuhan.



"Dan berlakulah peristiwa 13 Mei di mana sesetengah ahli sejarah mendakwa ia berlaku kerana kegagalan pemimpin Umno melahirkan keseimbangan dalam kehidupan masyarakat terutamanya di bandar-bandar besar.



"Sedangkan peristiwa berdarah itu tidak berlaku di Kelantan. Ini kerana sebaik sahaja tercetus rusuhan di Kuala Lumpur, Dato' Asri Muda memanggil semua penghulu dan mengarahkan mereka menjaga keselamatan mukim masing-masing," katanya di sini.



Menurutnya penghulu diberi tanggungjawab oleh kerajaan PAS ketika itu bagi memastikan tidak berlaku peristiwa berdarah seperti di tempat lain pada 13 Mei.



Beliau juga berkata, pemimpin PAS di Kelantan sejak awal lagi mengutamakan keseimbangan antara kaum bagi mengelakkan ada kelompok masyarakat yang tersisih.



Oleh itu katanya usaha kerajaan PAS mengadakan Deklarasi Perpaduan Nasional dan Keamanan 13 Mei 2009 baru-baru ini bagi mencetus langkah proaktif ke hadapan dengan meneroka politik baru di Malaysia.


"Dan oleh kerana itu, saya fikir Mursiydul Am PAS, Tuan Guru Nik Aziz telah mengambil inisiatif untuk menggagaskan konsep perpaduan nasional sebagai premis politik yang baru di negara ini," katanya.

 

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KUALA LUMPUR, June 9 (Bernama) -- Several quarters want the Government to have an in-depth study before making the English language a compulsory subject to pass in the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM).

National Union of the Teaching Profession president Lt Kdr (B) Hashim Adnan wants teachers in rural areas to be well-trained in the English language before making the subject compulsory to pass the SPM.

"Before carrying out the plan, we must look at other aspects, especially the need for English language teachers in rural areas because there is a lack in such teachers in those areas," he said when contacted by Bernama here Tuesday.

He said the lack of graduates to teach English was due to the previous stand which did not require them to pass the English language subject, thus leading to an over-supply of graduates in both Malay Literature and in History.

Hashim said, if there were sufficient English language teachers in primary and secondary schools, then the plan could be implemented.

Currently, he said, it was well-suited to make it compulsory for all students to take English as one of the core subjects in the SPM before making it compulsory to pass the SPM.

Meanwhile, a Malay right-wing group, Pertubuhan Pribumi Perkasa, through its secretary-general Syed Hassan Syed Ali, hopes the government would conduct an in-depth study before implementing the proposal to make English compulsory to pass the SPM.

"What is needed is the command of English as a language for knowledge, and this aim can be achieved if there is support from family, additional reading materials, hands-on training, qualified English teachers and equipments for the language laboratory in the rural areas," he said.

He said Perkasa was worried that if the plan was carried out without the said preparation, it would cause a high number of drop-outs among Bumiputra students in the rural areas, thus affecting the functions of English as a language for knowledge.

The Federation of Peninsular Malaysia Malay Students (GPMS) agrees with the ministry's proposal due to the competive surroundings faced by the younger generation upon leaving school.

Its president, Datuk Seri Reezal Merican Naina Merican, said that before the enforcement of the said proposal could be carried out, the government needed to look into few aspects, among others, to give full attention to the English language.

"The module, teaching method and reference materials in the language need to be standardised in all schools, be it in the city or rural areas," he said.

Meanwhile, Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk S. K. Devamany said in a statement that English was the most widely studied language in the world.

"Bahasa Malaysia is the nation's soul but the importance of English today cannot be denied. It is the world's most prominent language and spoken around the world," he said.

He said the English language gave students an upper hand in securing better job opportunities.

"Therefore, components which include reading, writing, speaking and listening must be given emphasis. Greater emphasis must be given to English grammar," he said.

-- BERNAMA

 

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PETALING JAYA: Most of the 500 views received by the Education Ministry as at the end of office hours yesterday are against any move to make English compulsory in order to obtain the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) certificate.

A ministry official said those who contacted the ministry wanted the status quo to remain.

“We started receiving telephone calls from 10am until 5.30pm yesterday,” she said.

From today, she said people could telephone the ministry’s hunting line at 03-7723-7070 with their views from 8am to 5.30pm.

“There are 27 lines and we have enough people manning them,” she said.

People can also e-mail their views to [email protected] or send a fax to 03-7710-8880.

On Monday, Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin had said he was surprised to learn that English was not a “must pass” subject for SPM and wanted public feedback on the matter.

The Education Minister said it was a revelation to him as he had always thought that it was a prerequisite since students had to learn English in school.

He said he was also shocked to learn that national schools no longer taught English grammar.

Muhyiddin said students were now merely learning communicative English.

“This means they are picking up the language for communication purposes only,” he said, adding that almost 70% of students who take English passed the subject.

A pass in English has never been compulsory for SPM. Since 2000, a pass in

Bahasa Malaysia was sufficient to get the SPM certificate. Previously, a credit was a must.