Education Minister, Muhyiddin will fail his Form 3 Maths and Science if tests conducted in Mandarin or Tamil.

MEDIA STATEMENT


Education Minister, Muhyiddin will fail his Form 3 Maths and Science if tests conducted in Mandarin or Tamil.
- Call to stop the abrupt change of medium of instruction from next year for Maths and Science in Malaysian schools

The pupils attending national primary schools have been learning their Mathematics and Science in English since Primary One after the then Prime Minister, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad decided in 2003 to have the students study these subjects in English. The Government spent RM5.0 billion for the exercise!

The BN Government has now decided that these students will have to study these subjects in the Malay language when they enter Form 1 (Secondary school) next year. This is just absurd and ridiculous.

If our Education Minister who is also our Deputy Prime Minister, Tan Sri Dato’ Haji Muhyiddin Bin Mohd Yassin cannot see how absurd and ridiculous the decision that was made, I challenge him to sit for a Form 3 test on these two subjects in Tamil or Mandarin. I am certain he will fail.

I call on the Government to allow these students to continue their Mathematics and Science in English which has been their medium of instruction since Primary One.


Dated this 23rd day of February 2011.



NGEH KOO HAM
Chairman of DAP Perak
MP for Beruas & State Assemblyman for Sitiawan






媒体文告


教育部长慕尤丁的初中三数理考试将会不及格，如果这项考试是用华语或淡米尔语进行。
-呼吁从明年开始，在马来西亚学校，停止对数理科目，改换教学的语言。


之从前首相敦马哈迪医生决定在2003年用英语教数理，学生已从小学一年级开始，用英语学习数理。政府在这项措施，花了马币五十亿！

国阵政府如今决定，当这些学生明年升上初中一时，必须用国语学习这些课目。这是荒谬及可笑的。

如果我们的教育部长，也是我们的副首相，丹斯里慕尤丁看不出他的决定是多么荒谬和可笑的，那么我挑战他在初中三的数理考试里，用华语或淡米尔语进行。我肯定他不会及格。

我呼吁政府让这些学生升上中学时，继续使用英语来学习数理。因为这是他们从小学一年级开始，用来学习数理的语言。


日期：2011年2月23日。



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