REPORT

Survey Questions
(National Education Policy)

DATE
26th OCTOBER 2010

LECTURER
Mr. Ahmad Bin Ibrahim

GROUP MEMBERS: (SECTION E35)

1. ZULFADHLI BIN SOHOK EC08070
2. MUHAMMAD FARHAN BIN ZAINUDDIN EC08090
3. MOHD ADLI BIN HASSIN EC08077
4. MUHAMMAD KHAIRULAZWAN BIN KAMARUZZAMAN EC08041
5. AHMAD YAZID BIN ASUAT EC07047

1. Introduction
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 This report is one of the assignments for subject Ethnic Relations or Hubungan Etnik

(UHM2022). This subject is designed to promote students’ unity and integration. This is achieved

by involving students in field work and other dynamic team activities applying the basic concept

and of ethnic relations in Malaysia. Students are required to produce field work report based on

their observation on selected topics related to the Malaysian multi ethnic society. Ethnic relations

issues are integrated in the content of the course where students should analyze critically as well

as demonstrate positive values and foster unity and integration among students.

This project is about studies on national policies that have in Malaysia. So, we have

chosen National Education Policy as our research topic for this work activity. Here, some

information about this topic, National Education Policy. There are 3 words come from National

Education Policy, which are national, education, and policy. The definition for national can is

relating to or typical of a whole country and its people, rather than to part of that country or to

other countries. [1] For education, it can be defined as the process of teaching or learning in a

school or college, or the knowledge that you get from this. [1] Policy is defined as a set of ideas

or a plan of what to do in particular situations that has been agreed officially by a group of

people, a business organization, a government or a political party. [1]

Education is a one of the medium or way to unite all races has in this country. In this

perspective, Malaysia is one of the countries that has shown and proved that by using education

as a platform to strengthen national integration. Since 1956, Education Policy in Malaysia had

undergo varies changes to ensure the quality of education to the people and to strengthen people’s

unity. In 1956, Razak Statement was written. Then in 1960, Rahman Talib’s Report was written.

A continues evaluation on education system in Malaysia always goes on. Until in 1961, when

Education Acts was passed in Parliamentary a rigid and legal policy of Education is born.

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 This is the beginning of new successful era of education system in Malaysia. Throughout

this act, we had modified previous education system into what we had today. All content in

certain subject such as History, Geographic is been modifying to meet local requirement.

The reasons why Malaysia creates this policy, National Education Policy is to achieve the

objectives that have been target by government themselves. According to Education Acts 1961,

education system in Malaysia aimed to achieve unity of all races since in their schoolhood and to

provide a quality work forces or human capital. Others objectives is according to Razak

Statement 1956 and Rahman Talib Report 1960.

2. Report Review

In this part, we are going to review all the process doing this study form the beginning

until the end of this report. The task is given by the lecturer, Mr. Ahmad Bin Ibrahim to conduct a

survey on national policy in Malaysia. All groups have been asked to choose one policy from the

national policies in Malaysia, so our group has decided to choose one policy which is National

Sport Policy. The process of this survey questions started on 10 st October 2010 and end at 22th

October 2010, around 3 weeks.

Our group’s target is 50 persons consist of male and female students. We open the

respondent category to any Malaysian age between 18-25 years old. Our group questions have

been constructed in one form which made from Google spreadsheets. The spreadsheets are put in

blog which is tmelor.blogspot.com and it can be referred to appendix 1. We have asked the entire

group’s target to complete all the survey questions. The link for this survey question’s form is:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?

hl=en&pli=1&formkey=dFpSSF9wVW5UVGwwOGRQTEFGYlJkYXc6MQ#gid=0

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 This survey form consists of 8 questions. All are objective. Answer yes or no only.
Below are the questions in the online survey:

1. Have you ever heard about National education policy (NEP)?

2. In your opinion, does NEP important to Malaysian?
3. One of the policies in NEP is to using Bahasa Malaysia as delivering language in all school.
In your opinion, does the implementation of Science and Mathematics in English could be the
barrier of uphold the Bahasa Malaysia as a national language and its role as Unity Language.
4. Which type of school system would you prefer to send your future kids to?
5. One of the objectives of NEP is to build and farming the unity amongst Malaysian teenagers
through SMK and SK. Do you think the existence of vernacular school such as SJKC
(Chinese School) and SJKT (Tamil School) act as a barrier to unity amongst Malaysian’s
Kids?
6. Do we need different type of school accordingly to social background of race?
7. Does the NEP successfully implemented in Malaysia?
8. Advanced countries have a systematic and holistic school system. Their system mostly not
examination oriented but more to soft skills and invention skill to be farmed amongst their
teenagers. Aspect of leadership and others human capital aspect are mainly develop during
their schooling. Do you agree such system is applied to Malaysian school?

3. Analysis and Discussion

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1. Have you ever heard about National Education Policy (NEP)?

This question asked about general knowledge of respondents on the existence of NEP. Near 8%
of total respondents knew the existence of NEP. While others 26% of respondents representing 13
persons answer did not know about NEP.

2. In your opinion, does NEP important to Malaysian?

In second question, we asked the respondents on the importance of an Education Policy to

Malaysia. 76% of respondents which is 38 persons from 50 the total respondent agree that a legal
policy according to constitution of Malaysia is important to exist and to be implemented. While
the others 9 person deny its importance. This 18% of saying No is due to lack of knowledge on
NEP or maybe they did not agree to the contents of NEP.

3. One of the policies in NEP is to using Bahasa Malaysia as delivering language in

all school. In your opinion, does the implementation of Science and Mathematics in

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English could be the barrier of uphold the Bahasa Malaysia as a national language
and its role as Unity Language?

This question is aimed to seeking the opinion from respondents about PPSMI. According to the
results, 48% of respondents agree that PPSMI is a barrier to uphold Bahasa Malaysia as a
National Language as others 46% of respondents agree that PPSMI will not cause Bahasa
Malaysia to be a second language in Malaysia.

4. Which type of school system would you prefer to send your future kids to?

This question would like to forecast our respondents favor on which school they believe to sent
their kids to school. 52% of respondents agree to send their kids to Public or Government school.
20% of respondents choose to send their kids into private school. While 16% others of
respondents would like to sent their kids to overseas school. Only 4% of respondents like to
send their kids to Vernacular School.

5. One of the objectives of NEP is to build and farming the unity amongst Malaysian
teenagers through SMK and SK. Do you think the existence of vernacular school
such as SJKC (Chinese School) and SJKT (Tamil School) act as a barrier to unity
amongst Malaysian’s Kids?
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 This question asked about the opinion about the existence of vernacular school such as SJKC
(Chinese School) and SJKT (Tamil School) act as a barrier to unity amongst Malaysian’s
Kids. About 62% of respondents say yes and the rest 32% of respondents says no .

6. Do we need different type of school accordingly to social background of race?

This question asked respondent about do we need different type of school accordingly to
social background of race. By asking this question, we would like to find out how
respondents view schooling system by races. Majority of the respondents which is 66%
say yes and 24% says no.

7. Does the NEP successfully implemented in Malaysia?

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 This question asked about does the NEP successfully implemented in Malaysia.
This question is aimed to find out respondent’s view about NEP and the success of
implement NEP in Malaysia. As a result, 52% of respondents agree that NEP is
successfully implemented and others 38% says no.

8. Advanced countries have a systematic and holistic school system. Their system
mostly not examination oriented but more to soft skills and invention skill to be
farmed amongst their teenagers. Aspect of leadership and others human capital
aspect are mainly develop during their schooling. Do you agree such system is
applied to Malaysian school?

In this question, we tried to test respondents through a comparison of education system in

advanced countries such as in Europe and America. 82% of 50 respondents agree to apply a
education system that not exam oriented and stress on aspect of human capital. While others 10%
don’t agree to apply such system in Malaysia.

4. Conclusion

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 According to various backgrounds of respondents, we believe that Education Policy still

infamous policy amongst Malaysian. Majority of respondents Education Policy is important

to create a quality education system in Malaysia. Yet, most of them reject the existence of

vernacular system in our education system. Responses from respondents are balance in term

of using English as Teaching Language for Science & Math’s. Malaysians also hopes that

one day, we will step forward to have free-oriented examination system and more focus to

human capital empowerment education system while not forgetting the academics section.

Appendix:

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Appendix 1: Survey Question Form