Dear Parents,
Kindly register on to/view our portal, pagemalaysia.org for the latest updates. This blogspot is obsolete.
Thank you.
PAGE Malaysia
FOR OUR CHILDREN/DEMI ANAK KITA
Friday, July 15, 2011
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Dear All,
The rakyat who wish to have a say on the Malaysian education system are invited to migrate to http://www.pagemalaysia.org from now on. This portal which contains material from the start of the debate on PPSMI provides such a platform.
Our plans as far as PPSMI is concerned is to now hand a second memorandum to the Prime Minister who will listen to the rakyat in the spirit of 1Malaysia.
FOR OUR CHILDREN/DEMI ANAK KITA
The rakyat who wish to have a say on the Malaysian education system are invited to migrate to http://www.pagemalaysia.org from now on. This portal which contains material from the start of the debate on PPSMI provides such a platform.
Our plans as far as PPSMI is concerned is to now hand a second memorandum to the Prime Minister who will listen to the rakyat in the spirit of 1Malaysia.
FOR OUR CHILDREN/DEMI ANAK KITA
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
An Invitation to Parents
An Invitation to Attend the Soft Launch of the
Parent Action Group for Education Malaysia (PAGE)
Dear Friends,
We would like to invite you to the soft launch of the Parent Action Group for Education Malaysia (PAGE) as a registered national society. As you are well aware, PAGE has been in the forefront of the campaign to maintain the option for PPSMI. After many months of exchanges and overcoming a host of challenges, we are pleased to inform that PAGE’s application to be formalized as a national society has finally been approved.
Whilst PAGE will continue in its efforts, it is now the time for us to gather support, increase our numbers and unite under this umbrella for our common cause. As such, we seek your presence at this event to help convey the message that concerned parents in Malaysia are too sizeable a number to be ignored.
Details of the event are as follows :
Date: Saturday, 3 July 2010
Venue: Pekan Kopitiam & Bistro, Jalan Medan Setia 1,
Plaza Damansara, Bukit Damansara, 50490 Kuala Lumpur
Programme
10.30 am Arrival of guests and registration
11.00 am Welcome remarks by the Master of Ceremony
11.05 am Welcome speech by the Chairman of PAGE
11.10 am Launch of PAGE Portal, Membership & briefing on the PPSMI Option
11.30 am Press conference/Refreshments
We look forward to seeing you.
Kindly RSVP via sms to 013.3913494 or email to pagemalaysia@gmail.com .
Thank you.
Yours sincerely,
Tengku Ida Tengku Ismail
Honorary Secretary-PAGE
FOR OUR CHILDREN/DEMI ANAK KITA
Parent Action Group for Education Malaysia (PAGE)
Dear Friends,
We would like to invite you to the soft launch of the Parent Action Group for Education Malaysia (PAGE) as a registered national society. As you are well aware, PAGE has been in the forefront of the campaign to maintain the option for PPSMI. After many months of exchanges and overcoming a host of challenges, we are pleased to inform that PAGE’s application to be formalized as a national society has finally been approved.
Whilst PAGE will continue in its efforts, it is now the time for us to gather support, increase our numbers and unite under this umbrella for our common cause. As such, we seek your presence at this event to help convey the message that concerned parents in Malaysia are too sizeable a number to be ignored.
Details of the event are as follows :
Date: Saturday, 3 July 2010
Venue: Pekan Kopitiam & Bistro, Jalan Medan Setia 1,
Plaza Damansara, Bukit Damansara, 50490 Kuala Lumpur
Programme
10.30 am Arrival of guests and registration
11.00 am Welcome remarks by the Master of Ceremony
11.05 am Welcome speech by the Chairman of PAGE
11.10 am Launch of PAGE Portal, Membership & briefing on the PPSMI Option
11.30 am Press conference/Refreshments
We look forward to seeing you.
Kindly RSVP via sms to 013.3913494 or email to pagemalaysia@gmail.com .
Thank you.
Yours sincerely,
Tengku Ida Tengku Ismail
Honorary Secretary-PAGE
FOR OUR CHILDREN/DEMI ANAK KITA
Monday, June 21, 2010
URGENT!
Immediately register your support for PPSMI on:
http://www.petitiononline.com/magp13/petition.html
FOR OUR CHILDREN
http://www.petitiononline.com/magp13/petition.html
FOR OUR CHILDREN
Saturday, June 19, 2010
PAGE Malaysia is registered
The Parent Action Group for Education Malaysia (PAGE) or Persatuan Ibu Bapa Untuk Pendidikan Malaysia (1266-10-WKL) is now a national body registered with the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Our details are as follows:
PAGE Malaysia
24-2, Medan Setia 2
Plaza Damansara
Damansara Heights
50490 Kuala Lumpur
Tel: 03-20925626
Fax: 03-20931241
PAGE Malaysia will be launched in July 2010.
We wish to thank the Minister of Education and his officers for endorsing PAGE Malaysia and onward approval by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
FOR OUR CHILDREN
Our details are as follows:
PAGE Malaysia
24-2, Medan Setia 2
Plaza Damansara
Damansara Heights
50490 Kuala Lumpur
Tel: 03-20925626
Fax: 03-20931241
PAGE Malaysia will be launched in July 2010.
We wish to thank the Minister of Education and his officers for endorsing PAGE Malaysia and onward approval by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
FOR OUR CHILDREN
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Mr PM, how can Malaysia meet Western Digital's investment requirements if you abolish PPSMI?
Workforce: 77pc have only SPM
May 22, 2010
NUSAJAYA, May 22 —Seventy-seven per cent of the country’s workforce had only attained the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia or equivalent academic qualification.
This does not go well with Malaysia’s aspiration to achieve the developed nation status by 2020, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.
“If we do not seriously address the education gap, Malaysia will not have the labour pool that is sufficiently educated and prepared to work in high end industries that our country is developing,” he said.
Najib said this when launching Khazanah Nasional’s MYWorkLife Talent Portal at Puteri Habour, here today.
He said that Western Digital Malaysia had announced an investment of USD1.2 billion in this country that would involve the construction of a new 1.5 milli on sq ft multi-storey building for research, development and manufacture of magnetic head, media components and hard disk drives.
Up to 10,000 additional jobs, involving a substantial number of high-qualification jobs, 100 PhD holders, 1,000 masters or equivalent holders will be created at the facility over time.
“What does that say about us? It means that we have not developed enough people both in qualitative and quantitative terms to fulfil the requirement of knowledge and innovative economy,” he said.
The Prime Minister said, as outlined in the New Economic Model, several key factors were essential to prepare the workforce to meet tomorrow’s challenges.
“We need to increase our local talent over time, re-skill our existing labour force and retain and access local and global talent so that we will be able to change our per capita income from the present level of US$7,000 (RM23,345) to US$15,000 (RM50,000) by 2010,” he said.
The possible areas that the government is considering to review in order to attract highly experienced Malaysians and foreign workers to call Malaysia home include:that
- Relaxing rules regarding permanent residence status for ex-Malaysians and their families as well as for foreigners.
- Centralizing oversight of foreign labour and expatriates to enable more streamlined governance of residence policies.
- Building up a critical mass of skilled professionals through simplified work permit and immigration procedures.
- And continuing to liberalise the professional services sector.
Also present were Menteri Besar Johor Datuk Abdul Ghani Othman and Managing Director of Khazanah Nasional Tan Sri Azman Mokhtar. — Bernama
FOR OUR CHILDREN
May 22, 2010
NUSAJAYA, May 22 —Seventy-seven per cent of the country’s workforce had only attained the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia or equivalent academic qualification.
This does not go well with Malaysia’s aspiration to achieve the developed nation status by 2020, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.
“If we do not seriously address the education gap, Malaysia will not have the labour pool that is sufficiently educated and prepared to work in high end industries that our country is developing,” he said.
Najib said this when launching Khazanah Nasional’s MYWorkLife Talent Portal at Puteri Habour, here today.
He said that Western Digital Malaysia had announced an investment of USD1.2 billion in this country that would involve the construction of a new 1.5 milli on sq ft multi-storey building for research, development and manufacture of magnetic head, media components and hard disk drives.
Up to 10,000 additional jobs, involving a substantial number of high-qualification jobs, 100 PhD holders, 1,000 masters or equivalent holders will be created at the facility over time.
“What does that say about us? It means that we have not developed enough people both in qualitative and quantitative terms to fulfil the requirement of knowledge and innovative economy,” he said.
The Prime Minister said, as outlined in the New Economic Model, several key factors were essential to prepare the workforce to meet tomorrow’s challenges.
“We need to increase our local talent over time, re-skill our existing labour force and retain and access local and global talent so that we will be able to change our per capita income from the present level of US$7,000 (RM23,345) to US$15,000 (RM50,000) by 2010,” he said.
The possible areas that the government is considering to review in order to attract highly experienced Malaysians and foreign workers to call Malaysia home include:that
- Relaxing rules regarding permanent residence status for ex-Malaysians and their families as well as for foreigners.
- Centralizing oversight of foreign labour and expatriates to enable more streamlined governance of residence policies.
- Building up a critical mass of skilled professionals through simplified work permit and immigration procedures.
- And continuing to liberalise the professional services sector.
Also present were Menteri Besar Johor Datuk Abdul Ghani Othman and Managing Director of Khazanah Nasional Tan Sri Azman Mokhtar. — Bernama
FOR OUR CHILDREN
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Time for drastic action..
All systems go for science and maths reverting to BM in 2011
The Financial Edge
Tuesday, 18 May 2010 21:54
PUTRAJAYA: The federal government is ready to shift back to teaching science and mathematics in Bahasa Malaysia in 2011 and will not accommodate requests to remain with English as the medium of instruction for these subjects, Education Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said.
The education ministry was at "the final stages of preparation" of implementing the policy, and textbooks for both subjects in Bahasa Malaysia were being written, he told a press conference after chairing a cabinet committee meeting on human capital development on Monday, May 17.
Muhyiddin, who is also deputy prime minister, said that he had received a report a fortnight ago indicating that the ministry was ready to proceed in 2011 with the first batch to be taught under the reinstated Bahasa Malaysia policy.
He had told parliament in October 2009 that the education ministry was mulling the possibility of teaching mathematics and science in Bahasa Malaysia to Standard One students in 2011, ahead of the 2012 target year set for other students nationwide.
On July 8, 2009, Muhyiddin had announced the cabinet's decision to abolish the policy of teaching science and mathematics in English (or PPSMI, the Malay acronym for the policy), that was adopted in 2003.
The decision marks a reversion to Bahasa Malaysia as the medium of instruction for the two subjects in national schools as well as a shift back to vernacular languages in Chinese and Tamil schools starting 2012.
To another question, Muhyiddin said his ministry was aware that certain quarters had been lobbying for schools to be given an option to teach the subjects in English but it remained closed to the possibility.
"We are aware that some have requested that but if we take that into account, many problems will emerge (and it would seem as if) we are inconsistent on policy," he said.
"We understand what students and parents need. We want parents to give the ministry a chance to implement the policy (back to Bahasa Malaysia for the two subjects)."
Muhyiddin reiterated that the new policy would include steps to enhance students' command of the English language, including an increase in teaching time for the English language, several steps to transform the teaching of the language and the recruitment of more teachers.
"What is certain is that it (the teaching of the English language) will be more enjoyable... The new curriculum will be enhanced."
A group of parents who call themselves the Parent Action Group for Education (Page) had in October 2009 submitted a memorandum to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak seeking an exemption from the policy shift to enable certain schools to opt to continue teaching science and mathematics in English.
Page chairman Datin Noor Azimah Abdul Rahim had said that the group was pushing for the establishment of a new category of schools that taught both subjects in English, alongside existing vernacular schools.
Contacted on Monday, Noor Azimah maintained that Page's request for options was a "reasonable" one as it was not opposing the government's policy nor was it challenging the status of Bahasa Malaysia as the national language.
"It's a reasonable request. PPSMI is a policy matter. But this policy has been overly politicised. It is a win-win situation (if schools are given a choice)," said Noor Azimah.
Noor Azimah also pointed to the Kuala Lumpur High Court's decision which affirmed that it was constitutional to teach mathematics and science in English. High Court judge Mohd Zawawi Salleh ruled on May 7 that the two circulars on the execution of the previous policy for vernacular and national schools to teach both subjects in English did not contradict Article 152 of the Federal Constitution.
FOR OUR CHILDREN
The Financial Edge
Tuesday, 18 May 2010 21:54
PUTRAJAYA: The federal government is ready to shift back to teaching science and mathematics in Bahasa Malaysia in 2011 and will not accommodate requests to remain with English as the medium of instruction for these subjects, Education Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said.
The education ministry was at "the final stages of preparation" of implementing the policy, and textbooks for both subjects in Bahasa Malaysia were being written, he told a press conference after chairing a cabinet committee meeting on human capital development on Monday, May 17.
Muhyiddin, who is also deputy prime minister, said that he had received a report a fortnight ago indicating that the ministry was ready to proceed in 2011 with the first batch to be taught under the reinstated Bahasa Malaysia policy.
He had told parliament in October 2009 that the education ministry was mulling the possibility of teaching mathematics and science in Bahasa Malaysia to Standard One students in 2011, ahead of the 2012 target year set for other students nationwide.
On July 8, 2009, Muhyiddin had announced the cabinet's decision to abolish the policy of teaching science and mathematics in English (or PPSMI, the Malay acronym for the policy), that was adopted in 2003.
The decision marks a reversion to Bahasa Malaysia as the medium of instruction for the two subjects in national schools as well as a shift back to vernacular languages in Chinese and Tamil schools starting 2012.
To another question, Muhyiddin said his ministry was aware that certain quarters had been lobbying for schools to be given an option to teach the subjects in English but it remained closed to the possibility.
"We are aware that some have requested that but if we take that into account, many problems will emerge (and it would seem as if) we are inconsistent on policy," he said.
"We understand what students and parents need. We want parents to give the ministry a chance to implement the policy (back to Bahasa Malaysia for the two subjects)."
Muhyiddin reiterated that the new policy would include steps to enhance students' command of the English language, including an increase in teaching time for the English language, several steps to transform the teaching of the language and the recruitment of more teachers.
"What is certain is that it (the teaching of the English language) will be more enjoyable... The new curriculum will be enhanced."
A group of parents who call themselves the Parent Action Group for Education (Page) had in October 2009 submitted a memorandum to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak seeking an exemption from the policy shift to enable certain schools to opt to continue teaching science and mathematics in English.
Page chairman Datin Noor Azimah Abdul Rahim had said that the group was pushing for the establishment of a new category of schools that taught both subjects in English, alongside existing vernacular schools.
Contacted on Monday, Noor Azimah maintained that Page's request for options was a "reasonable" one as it was not opposing the government's policy nor was it challenging the status of Bahasa Malaysia as the national language.
"It's a reasonable request. PPSMI is a policy matter. But this policy has been overly politicised. It is a win-win situation (if schools are given a choice)," said Noor Azimah.
Noor Azimah also pointed to the Kuala Lumpur High Court's decision which affirmed that it was constitutional to teach mathematics and science in English. High Court judge Mohd Zawawi Salleh ruled on May 7 that the two circulars on the execution of the previous policy for vernacular and national schools to teach both subjects in English did not contradict Article 152 of the Federal Constitution.
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