The
National
Education Blueprint has been the talk of Malaysian nation over the
months. This article is written to point up several ideas and possible
solutions for the sound enactment of the National Education Blueprint.
Excellent education should emphasise on
process and results, whereby the
teaching career is more of practice than mainly theory, as agreed by
experts. Prior to that, University of Malaya’s Faculty of Education organised the
Education Seminar 2007 on the 27th of January with the theme, ‘ Execution of the National Education Blueprint: Present and Future Directions’.
The author, Koh Soo Ling reports the viewpoints of education experts from
public and private tertiary institutions. She reports for the News Straits
Times, and is an Associate of the Office of Academic Affairs and an Associate
Professor at the Academy
of Language Studies,
Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam.
In
reaching to the desired standard of the National Education Blueprint, the
author pointed up the role of English Language. Universiti Teknologi MARA pro
chancellor Tan Sri Datuk Panglima Abdul Rahman said that erudite teachers
contribute to
students’ success, by monitoring students’ capabilities to
accomplish reachable goals. He also noted school children should concentrate on
Bahasa Malaysia
during primary school and English Language in secondary school. Abdul
Rahman also emphasised on preschool education, where all level of
schools should cohere to realise the education blueprint objectives. He also claimed
that it will be a disadvantage to start formal schooling late. Besides that, HELP University
President, Paul Chan was concerned with the lacking of “no alternative”
concept. The option to fail, and switch to something else result in the
unwillingness of students to conquer obstacles of formal education. In addition,
quality education is the key to
school selection. Mental decline and the
automatic promotion system hinder quality, and can be resolved in a way by
letting schools to design their own examinations. Lastly, the blueprints should
ensure its benefits to the targeted group, especially fully residential schools
for the less privileged, and also tertiary institutions, to further develop the
credibility of education in Malaysia.
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