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- PPSMI and the Malaysian education malaise
- Bahasa Inggeris wajib dipertingkatkan - tetapi PPSMI bukan penyelesaiannya
- Sean Murray’s Kuching Construction Connection – Expose
PPSMI and the Malaysian education malaise Posted: 04 Nov 2011 06:37 PM PDT What worries me is that the Malaysian education system is too fragmented to the point that it now mirrors Astro programming. And, what do I mean by that? It is disturbing to see that Malaysian children are being shafted into different directions in the name of seeking quality education, culture and/or just plain, affordability. Parents who perceive that the quality of education in national schools (sekolah kebangsaan) have deteriorated precipitously have been sending their children to national-type Chinese schools or international schools. Other parents who doubt the quality of national schools have been sending their children to private schools using the national syllabus. Parents who believe that their children need to maintain their perceived "cultural identity" have been sending their children to Mandarin-medium or Tamil-medium schools. Let's not forget that there was also a time when Malay parents would send their children to Malay-medium schools with the same intent. Parents who believe that their children should be at the apex of society with a fighting chance of being entrenched as the elite of Malaysian society and/or be competitive at a global level, have been sending their children to international schools based in Malaysia!!!! That's what I mean by the Astro-programming parallel. And, I believe this to be the major issue. This is the pink elephant in the room that the Minister of Education and the Cabinet has chosen to ignore. Granted that this issue is a delicate and complex one, someone still has to address the issue. Or, maybe this is the precise point. It is NOT a political issue because no one, on either side of the Parliamentary divide, be they Barisan Nasional or Pakatan Rakyat, have bothered to deal with the matter. Yet, everyone who has school-going children and anyone who has undergone any of the education routes I have outlined above should know or recall, the educational anomaly that exists in Malaysia. Who amongst the political leaders of contemporary Malaysia has the courage to raise this issue? Who dares to bell this cat? No one. All we have are parochial and chauvinistic gallery-pandering politicians and educationists who champion their own little causes. Will no one stand for the Malaysian nation?
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Bahasa Inggeris wajib dipertingkatkan - tetapi PPSMI bukan penyelesaiannya Posted: 04 Nov 2011 06:25 PM PDT Muhyidin telah mengambil keputusan dan meminta sokongan dari kabinet dan Parlimen untuk kembali kepada mengajar Matematik dan Sains dalam Bahasa Malaysia. Apabila isu ini masih menjadi perbahasan kita tidak terlepas dari bertanya, kenapa sudah 54 tahun merdeka isu medium pengajaran dalam bahasa apa ini masih tidak terlerai.
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Sean Murray’s Kuching Construction Connection – Expose Posted: 04 Nov 2011 02:34 AM PDT The RM380 million luxury hotel and office complex was announced at the end of last year as a key initiative on the site, which has been designated by the State Government as a 'Special Development Area' and is being touted as the new Central Business District for the capital. CMS Land Sdn Bhd, a joint subsidiary of the largely Taib family-owned company CMS and the State Government, acquired ownership of the entire 240 acres of development land on the Isthmus, after it was alienated from local title-holders through a series of controversial forced purchases, in the late 1990s. If that was not favouritism enough, the company has now been granted numerous incentives to build through the injection of huge sums of public money into the area. CMS Land has officially estimated that the project has a "gross development value of RM2.8 billion"! However, we can demonstrate that this latest major construction project on the site is actually being driven forward by a mysterious off-shore company, run by an inner-circle of Taib's immediate family. The controlling share in the Joint Venture, which is situated on 10 acres provided by CMS Land, belongs to a company called Premier Cottage Sdn Bhd. The Director of that company is Sean Murray, along with Taib's other daughter Hanifah and his favoured sister-in-law, Gertie Chong. However, the sole shareholder of Premier Cottage is an off-shore company, Pioneer City Enterprises Limited, which supplies no profile or country address, despite having been awarded a significant public project. This is not the first time that the Murrays have claimed a stake in the Isthmus. Their company City Gate Corporation (part of the Sakto Group based in Ottawa) also snaffled a $110 million dollar contract to design the much talked about Kuching Tower, together with another company called ZW Group. ZW Group, interestingly, shares the same address as the Ottawa-based Aberdeen Project Facilitators Inc, who were formally awarded the management of the Kuching Tower project back in 2006. The Director of Aberdeen Project Facilitators and the Project Manager of ZW both happen to be one Thady Murray. Thady Murray also acts as the President of City Gate Corporation and is one of the many members of Sean Murray's family, who work out of the Sakto/City Gate Headquarters in their Preston Tower building, Ottawa!
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