Issues and current

challenges in education:
NATIONAL INTEGRATION

Presenters
Akmal Halim
Syahirah
Khuzaizi
Rosmalia Kasa
Fatin Izzati

Vernacular School VS National

School
Vernacular schools be changed to
single stream schools to
strengthen national unity.
Hot debate issue.
History: The creation of a single
national education system has been
opposed ever since preindependence 1951 in the Barnes
Report.

Not mastering the national

language : B. Malaysia

Mediocre fluency in Bahasa

Malaysia.
Less chance in speaking/conversing
using Bahasa Malaysia
Suggestions:
Trilingual Education system
(Singaporean)

Anti-Unity
Small chance in getting to know about
other races.
Not mastering the national language
language barrier among races.

Opinions:
Closing down vernacular schools: anger,
unhappiness and ill feeling inter-ethnic
tensions

Problems facing by governments

Reduce educational resources
For example a Tamil school having 5-10
students in single intake : waste of
resources

Providing new teachers

Government struggling to place new
teachers
New teachers unemployed
Chinese schools are insufficient supply
of teachers