TOO MUCH TV BAD FOR STUDENTS

Too much TV bad for students: Union Chief
Borneo Post

by Peter Boon February 26, 2010, Friday
SIBU: Too much television is exerting bad influences on students causing them to mimic the violent actions there, said Sarawak Teachers’ Union (STU) president William Ghani Bina.He said uncontrolled viewing of television particularly involving violent scenes could confuse students with what had been taught inside the school gates, and could eventually lead to more pressing social ills.
“Parental guidance is imperative as students lack the maturity to differentiate the good from the bad,” he told The Borneo Post yesterday when asked about intervention programmes to curb violence in schools following another reported fighting incident that shocked the public.
“As a result, they copy or follow the behaviour blindly unaware of the negative consequences associated with such actions,” he quipped.
In the unfortunate incident, the Form 2 student of a secondary school in Limbang alleged that he had been punched and kicked by a group of schoolmates.
Weeks earlier, a 14-year-old student in Kuching suffered the same fate due to an unprovoked attack.
The victim claimed he did not know who assaulted him, smashing his head against a table.
In response to these incidents, Ghani urged parents to devote more time to their children so that they could be more alert on any change of behaviour.
As a starting point, this would require parents to follow closely the type of television programmes their children were watching.
Ghani added: “Parents must intervene or provide guidance when certain programmes were found containing scenes not suitable for their children viewing.”
Citing an example, he pointed out that fighting scenes could corrupt students’ mind, motivating them to unconsciously engage in such aggressive behaviour.
As such, the onus is on the parents to keep close tabs on their children’s television programmes, which means spending more time with them (their children), he reiterated.
Ghani also appealed to the relevant authority to avoid screening movies with fighting scenes during daytime.
On the contrary, they can perhaps roll out more light programmes preferably with educational values to suit the young viewers, he suggested.
The president advised parents among other things, to emphasise on moral or religious education at home to help their children shy away from bad influences.
Again, this requires parents to spend more quality time with their children, he said.
Reinforced with such education and mental conditioning, students, he reckoned, would think twice about doing anything foolish.
They will not easily submit to their impulse, he said.
Towards this end, he hoped parents would have a more holistic view of the situation whenever an ugly incident cropped out.
This, he said was to be fair to the teachers, who were equally concerned about the safety and well being of their students.
“The way I see it, pointing fingers will not solve the problem and if not careful, could aggravate it.
“The thing is, the safety and well-being of students is a collective effort of both parents and teachers,” he stressed.

500 sekolah taraf lima bintang
Oleh NAZMIL NASIRUDDIN pengarang@utusan.com.my
PUTRAJAYA 12 Feb. - Kementerian Pelajaran menyasarkan 500 daripada 10,000 sekolah seluruh negara mencapai taraf sekolah lima bintang hujung tahun ini.
Ketua Pengarah Pelajaran, Tan Sri Alimuddin Mohd. Dom berkata, penarafan itu berdasarkan Piawaian Kelayakan Sekolah Bestari (SSQS) yang merupakan satu set piawaian bagi mengukur pencapaian sekolah dalam empat bidang iaitu penggunaan, modal insan, aplikasi dan infrastruktur.
"Pada tahun lalu 8,454 sekolah ditarafkan. Daripada bilangan ini, 7,575 sekolah berjaya ke tahap tiga hingga lima bintang," katanya.
Beliau bercakap pada sidang akhbar selepas Pembentangan Laporan dan Majlis Penghargaan bagi Program Sekolah Bestari Luar Bandar di Hotel Marriot di sini hari ini.
Turut hadir Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif Perbadanan Pembangunan Multimedia (MDeC), Datuk Baldisham Ghazali.
Menurut Alimuddin, 35 sekolah luar bandar akan ditambah ke dalam Program Sekolah Bestari Luar Bandar pada fasa kedua tahun ini.
Beliau berkata, penambahan itu juga secara tidak langsung mempercepat proses pembestarian sekolah luar bandar yang sebelum ini bermula dengan 15 sekolah pada tahun lalu.
Katanya, program tersebut diguna pakai untuk pelaksanaan 88 sekolah bestari penanda aras yang disesuaikan untuk pelaksanaan sekolah luar bandar.
"Sekolah tersebut dipilih daripada kategori menengah harian, sekolah kebangsaan, sekolah teknik vokasional, sekolah jenis kebangsaan, sekolah agama, sekolah pendidikan khas, sekolah Felda dan sekolah Orang Asli atau Penan.
"Sekolah luar yang dipilih juga perlu mempunyai kemudahan asas bekalan elektrik 24 jam, mempunyai infrastruktur asas teknologi maklumat dan komunikasi (ICT) seperti asas makmal komputer, Pusat Akses Sekolah dan mendapat kemudahan Schoolnet," jelasnya.
Selain itu, beliau memberitahu, sekolah tersebut sekurang-kurangnya perlu mencapai tahap penarafan tahap tiga bintang berdasarkan SQSS.
Ditanya mengenai pelbagai pelaksanaan label sekolah seperti Sekolah Berprestasi Tinggi (SBT), sekolah kluster, sekolah berasrama penuh (SBP), beliau berkata perkara tersebut tidak membawa banyak perbezaan.
"Apa yang membezakan hanya program yang dikhususkan kepada sekolah tersebut sahaja.
"Pada dasarnya hanya terdapat tiga jenis sekolah asal iaitu sekolah bantuan penuh kerajaan, sekolah bantuan modal dan sekolah swasta sahaja," katanya.

Terengganu has 6,000 high risk students
February 25, 2010, Thursday
KUALA TERENGGANU: About 6,000 secondary school students in Terengganu are involved in social problems like truancy, mat rempit, crime and drug abuse.State Exco for Education, Higher Education, Science & Technology and Human Resource Ahmad Razif Abdul Rahman said the state government took a serious view although it was small compared to the 250,000 student population.
He said the state government and Education Department were taking measures to check the unhealthy problem.
“The presence of just one high risk student in a school will inconvenience teachers and other students,” Ahmad Razif said.
Police recently briefed the state government and Education Department on the high risk schools in Terengganu. — Bernama

STUDENT MERCILESSLY PUNCHED, KICKED

FROM BORNEO POST

by Mastura Ismail and Philip Kiew February 25, 2010, Thursday
Tagged with: crime student
Attackers even recorded their atrocious act which left victim bruised and traumatised
LIMBANG: A group of secondary school students here punched and kicked a junior schoolmate just before the Chinese New Year and had the audacity to record their atrocious act which left their victim badly bruised and traumatised.

PROOF OF ALLEGED ATTACK: The victim’s mother shows the video recording of her son being bullied by his seniors. The footage is making its way from handphone to handphone in Limbang District.
The incident which happened at a local boarding school came to light recently when copies of the video were circulated here via handphones.
Despite his injuries, the victim, a Form 2 student from Lawas, kept quiet about the beating. He only nagged his parents to transfer him to another school.
His mother was shocked when she realised that her son was the victim in the five-minute video recording sent to her by a friend.
The video vividly shows a group of students mercilessly raining blows and kicks on the boy. Cowering in fear and pain in the footage, the boy pleaded to the group to stop hurting him, but his cries went unheeded.
In fact the assailants took turns to punch and kick him until he was injured in the face and body.
The aggressors were reportedly Form 3 students, and the cause of the beating was not immediately known.
The victim’s angry mother, who declined to be named in this report, said the whole family was shocked when they saw the video last Tuesday evening.
“I did not suspect anything when my friend sent me the video, but after watching it I was so shocked to see that the victim was my son,” she told Utusan Borneo here.
“The seniors punched and kicked him repeatedly. They showed no mercy, but continued to beat him up although he pleaded with them to stop,” she said.
The incident has deeply traumatised the boy who has kept to himself at his home in Lawas since the Chinese New Year.
His family found his behaviour rather odd, and his mother recalled that his right eye was bruised when they sent him back to school.
Now they understand why he nagged them about transferring him to a new school.
“What made us disappointed was the failure of the school to inform us although they knew about the beating.
“If we had not received the video, we would have remained ignorant of the whole matter,” she said.
She called the assault shameful and uncalled for.
“I want the authorities to investigate the case,” she said.
Meanwhile, Limbang police confirmed that a report on the case was lodged by the victim’s father yesterday.
Attempts to contact the school yesterday for comments on the incident were not successful. The senior assistant was said to be outstation.
On the phone, Sarawak Teacher Union chairman William Ghani Bina said the attack was regrettable, but stressed that it should be left to the police to investigate since a report has been lodged by the victim’s father.
Asked about the parent’s complaint that they were not informed by the school about the assault, he said it was unusual.
“Normally, under such circumstances parents would be informed,” he said.
The Borneo Post wanted Assistant Minister in the Chief Minister Office Datin Fatimah Abdullah (who was returning to Kuching after visiting Kabuloh Agriculture Station) to weigh in on the assault, but attempts to contact her were not successful.

CURRICULUM TRANSFORMATION TO SPARK CREATIVE IDEAS

Curriculum transformation to spark creative ideas
February 24, 2010, Wednesday
MUAR: The Education Ministry’s transformation of the school curriculum is aimed at sparking creative and innovative ideas among students, Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said.

The Education Minister said the transformation would stress on the acquisition of knowledge via fun learning and would not be examination oriented.
“With the transformation of curriculum, the learning process in classes will not be dominated by teachers.
“The learning process will prioritise interaction between students, teachers and classmates to spark creative and innovative ideas,” he said here yesterday. Muhyiddin said this when launching Myideas@School at Sekolah Kebangsaan Lenga near here. It was also attended by Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Datuk Seri Dr Maximus Ongkili.
He said innovation was the nation’s main agenda where new ideas, ways and approaches need to be undertaken.
“We should make creativity and innovation a practice and culture to enrich and bring prosperity to the people.” This should be done from a young age as early exposure to creativity and innovation would help develop young minds.
“Here (in schools) we can create a generation of thinkers and inventors of the future. The main question is how do we achieve this?” Muhyiddin said first phase of MyIdeas@School implemented with cooperation of Multimedia Development Corporation (MDEC) would involve 23 schools nationwide.
Forty-two teachers from 21 smart schools in rural areas would be trained to guide students in using the MyIdeas portal.
He was confident that MyIdeas@School would complement other innovative programmes like Robotics and F1 in Schools. — Bernama

pekeliling ikhtisas - memarrtabatkan Bahasa Malaysia dan memperkukuh Bahasa Inggeris (MBMMBI)

1. Pekeliling Ikhtisan Bil. 2/2010 "Pelaksanaan Dasar Memartabadkan Bahasa Malaysia dan Memperkukuhkan Bahasa Inggeris (MBMMBI):
i. Mesyuarat Jemaah Menteri pada 08.07.2009 telah memansuhkan pelaksanaan Dasar PPSMI di sekolah-sekolah dan digantikan dengan MBMMBI.
ii. dengan pemansuhan dasar PPSMI, sekolah hendaklah menggunakan BM sebagai bahasa penghantar dalam p&p Sains dan Matematik.
iii. pada 05.08.2009, Mesyuarat Jemaah Menteri telah memutuskan supaya MBMMBI dilaksnakan secara berperingkat-peringkat mulai 2010. Dalam proses peralihan ini, sekolah boleh menggunakan BI dan / atau BM dalam p&p Sains dan Matematik.
iv. pelaksanaan p&p Sians dan Matematik adalah seperti beriktu:
Mulai 2010 - p&p Sains dan Matematik boleh menggunakan BIMulai 2011 - p&p Sains dan Matematik boleh menggunakan BIMulai 2012 - p&p Sains dan Matematik Ting. 1 dilaksanakan dalam BM & p&p Ting. 4 boleh menggunakan BI dan / atau BM sehingga kohot tersebut tamat Ting. 5.PMR dalam dwi bahasa sehingga 2013SPM dwi bahasa sehingga 2015

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Kembalikan gemilang sukan kita
Oleh Mohd Azis Ngah azis@bharian.com.my
Kurikulum sekolah dirombak selepas 20 tahun terpinggirPETALING JAYA: Kementerian Pelajaran akan merombak dan menstruktur semula kurikulum sukan peringkat sekolah rendah dan menengah dalam usaha mengembalikan kegemilangan sukan di negara ini. Timbalan Perdana Menteri, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, berkata dalam tempoh 20 tahun kebelakangan ini, aktiviti sukan sekolah seolah-olah dipinggirkan, sering terkebelakang berbanding aktiviti lain sekali gus menenggelamkan kegemilangan sukan yang pernah menjadi kebanggaan pelajar.
Berikutan itu, katanya, semua aktiviti dan kalendar sukan peringkat sekolah akan disusun semula supaya lebih teratur dan padat dengan pelbagai program pembangunan peringkat akar umbi. Katanya, kerajaan kini merangka perancangan khas untuk mengembalikan kegemilangan, keseronokan dan kebanggaan sukan yang dianggap semakin malap dengan menggariskan lima pendekatan baru dalam memajukan sukan. "Dah hampir 20 tahun, sukan sering menjadi pilihan kedua atau ketiga... apa sebabnya entahlah, tetapi itulah keadaannya hinggakan pada peringkat sekolah, sukan tidak menjadi suatu kebanggaan. Berbanding zaman dulu, sukan dipandang ceria, bangga dan seronok.
"Jadi, saya buat keputusan kembalikan semula sukan dalam sekolah, mesti bermula pada peringkat awal dan semai semangat bersukan," katanya pada sidang media selepas menghadiri Majlis Anugerah Persatuan Penulis Sukan Malaysia (SAM) 2009. Turut hadir Menteri Belia dan Sukan, Datuk Ahmad Shabery Cheek dan Presiden SAM, Ahmad Khawari Isa. Beliau diminta mengulas kemelut sukan peringkat sekolah apabila Majlis Sukan Sekolah-Sekolah Malaysia (MSSM) menggugurkan 24 acara sukan dalam kalendar tahunan 2010 hinggalah Kementerian Pelajaran mengumumkan peruntukan RM89 juta bagi mengembalikan semula acara berkenaan. Muhyiddin yang juga Menteri Pelajaran kecewa kerana kebanyakan sekolah masih terlalu bergantung kepada perancangan lama yang dianggap lapuk serta langsung tidak membantu dalam usaha membangunkan sukan tanpa sebarang inisiatif.
Antara pendekatan yang akan diberi perhatian khas dalam mencapai matlamat itu ialah mengasingkan sukan daripada kokurikulum lain serta melantik pegawai khusus menjaga pembangunan sukan sekolah. "Kurikulum sukan juga mesti diubah termasuk mengkaji waktu sesuai untuk murid dan pelajar terbabit dalam sukan tanpa menjejaskan akademik mereka. Jika ikut jadual sekarang, tempoh bersukan hanya beberapa bulan, berlatih, pilih wakil sekolah dan habis.... hinggakan ibu bapa pun tak tahu bila masanya ada aktiviti sukan. "Bila habis tempoh tu, langsung tak ada program sehingga lima atau enam bulan... itu tak betul, bukan itu caranya, jadi mesti diperbetulkan. Kena ada perancangan apa nak buat selepas itu," katanya. Masalah kekurangan tenaga guru sukan juga diberi perhatian dengan meningkatkan jumlahnya kerana kebanyakan guru sukan sedia ada adalah guru biasa yang tidak terlatih. "Banyak sekolah juga tidak mempunyai kemudahan asas, tiada padang dan dewan serba guna. Kita kena cari jalan penyelesaian, mungkin boleh kongsi atau sewa kemudahan sedia ada. Apa yang penting, aktiviti tak semestinya terbatas atau bermusim, setiap ruang masa mesti diisi," katanya. Selain itu, beliau turut mengumumkan kerajaan akan menambah peruntukan untuk program sukan melalui bajet lima tahun dalam Rancangan Malaysia Ke-10 (RMK-10) tetapi jumlahnya masih belum ditetapkan.

sports be made compulsory in schools - from the news

Published: Sunday February 21, 2010 MYT 8:39:00
PM: Sports to be made compulsory in schools

By ROSLINA MOHAMAD
BANDAR JENGKA: Sports activities will be made compulsory in schools and students will be required to select a game of their choice starting next year.This means that students must pick at least one game and one uniformed body for the extra classroom activities.Education Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said it would have a separate syllabus and would no longer be part of the co-curriculum syllabus as was the practice currently.“The co-curriculum syllabus will be revamped to make sports an activity with its own programme and allocation and not be included together with arts and uniformed bodies.“Schools will have more sports teachers while allocations will be increased to improve the infrastructure. “It is part of the ministry’s efforts to bring glory back to sports,’’ he told reporters after officially closing Pahang Umno convention here Sunday.He added that an ad hoc committee to make the review had been set up and among the things its members would look into was to give credits to those who were active in sports.By giving additional marks to them, it would help to encourage them to be good in sports as well as academics, he said.Sports had long been neglected in schools and it was high time that the activity be given prominence, he added‘’Sports is good for your mind and health. Otherwise, parents will be sending their children for tuition classes so their children will get straight As.‘’This is the problem now. Parents stress too much on academics,’’ Muhyiddin said.It would also be able to help inculcate leadership skills, he added.He also noted that sports activities would normally commence a few months after schools started and until middle of the year.For the rest of the year, there would be no activities carried out, he added.Muhyiddin also said schools would have more time to arrange its sports and academic calendar when the implementation commenced next year. There are 10,000 schools with 5.6mil students nationwide. Kata Pengetua: Jika masih disebut kokurikulum, ianya tidak akan mendapat tempat sepenting

Sabah, Sarawak teachers ‘insulted’ by exclusion
By JACK WONGjackwong@thestar.com.my

KUCHING: Teachers in Sabah and Sarawak felt “very insulted and demoralised” as none of the schools from the two states made it to the list of the country’s top 20 schools.
Teachers’ Union Association for Sabah and Sarawak joint committee chairman William Ghani Bina said he had received calls from many teachers and parents who conveyed their strong feelings on the matter.
“They said the announcement of the 20 highest-performing schools came as a great insult to teachers in both Sabah and Sarawak. The results were demoralising to them.
“They felt strongly that 43 years after Sabah and Sarawak became part of Malaysia, the national education policy has failed. Something is wrong,” he added when asked yesterday.
The Education Ministry had announced an annual budget of nearly RM1mil for each of the schools besides allowing students to finish a year earlier as reward for high performance.
Ghani, who is also Sarawak Teachers’ Union president, said parents and teachers question­ed the impartiality in picking the 20 schools. There are 1,624 primary schools and 107 secondary schools in Sarawak.
He said the association, which shared the sentiments expressed by the teachers and parents, found it unfair to grade all schools in the country with only one measure.
Ghani said unlike Singapore where most schools were in almost the same situation, schools in Malaysia were classified as urban or rural.
For the rural schools, he said there were three different classifications based on hardship allowances for the teachers, ranging from RM500 to RM1,500.
“The differing hardship allowances means that the Government accepts the disparities between schools. It is therefore unfair to rate schools with a single grade.”
Ghani said the Education Ministry should be serious in addressing the longstanding teacher shortage problem in Sarawak.
“We are not asking for 100% trained teachers. There is even a shortage of untrained (temporary) teachers,” he added.
Ghani said he had asked the ministry to train temporary teachers who had taught for many years, but the ministry had not accepted their applications to be trained as permanent teachers.
He urged the ministry to accept applications from Universiti Tun Abdul Razak (Unitar) graduates with education degrees to increase the number of professional teachers.

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Guru besar, pengetua dapat imbuhan jika lonjak sekolah
KUALA TERENGGANU: Bermula tahun depan, guru besar dan pengetua yang berjaya melonjakkan kecemerlangan sekolah berasaskan akademik, kokurikulum dan sukan akan diberikan ganjaran dan insentif oleh Kementerian Pelajaran. Timbalan Perdana Menteri, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, berkata penilaian prestasi akan mula dilakukan tahun ini dengan setiap pencapaian sekolah akan menjadi kayu pengukur terhadap prestasi guru besar atau pun pengetua. "Malah bukan saja kepada pengetua atau pun guru besar, imbuhan itu juga akan turut dirasai oleh guru di sekolah yang terbabit dan ini akan memberikan galakan kepada golongan tersebut untuk berusaha lebih keras bagi meningkatkan prestasi sekolah masing-masing," katanya.
Muhyiddin yang juga Menteri pelajaran berkata demikian ketika berucap pada majlis penyampaian hadiah kecemerlangan pelajar Yayasan Terengganu ke-31 dan program Juara Rakyat peringkat Parlimen Kuala Terengganu di sini hari ini. Bagaimanapun, beliau tidak memperjelaskan bentuk ganjaran atau insentif yang akan diberikan nanti. Sementara itu, Muhyiddin turut memuji kerajaan negeri Terengganu kerana memberikan komitmen yang besar terhadap bidang pendidikan dengan mengiktiraf negeri itu sebagai peneraju bidang pelajaran di negara ini.
"Ini dapat dilihat melalui peruntukan besar kepada bidang pendidikan selain memberi bantuan kepada pelajar memperoleh buku elektronik dan imbuhan kecemerlangan," katanya. Katanya, komitmen itu menjadikan Terengganu berjaya muncul sebagai negeri yang mencatatkan keputusan terbaik dalam peperiksaan UPSR selama sembilan tahun berturut-turut. Di samping itu, katanya, negeri itu berjaya melahirkan ramai pelajar yang cemerlang dalam peperiksaan PMR, Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) dan Sijil Tinggi Palajaran Malaysia (STPM). Muhyiddin berkata, walaupun tidak ada sekolah di Terengganu yang disenaraikan antara 20 Sekolah Berprestasi Tinggi (SBT) baru-baru ini, ia tidak bermakna kerajaan meminggirkan sekolah di negeri itu.
"Banyak sekolah di negeri ini yang mencapai tahap cemerlang, namun tidak disenaraikan dalam sekolah SBT kerana masih mempunyai kekurangan dalam satu dua perkara. "Namun dengan adanya usaha gigih semua pihak termasuk ibu bapa, guru dan pelajar itu sendiri, saya pasti lebih banyak sekolah di negeri ini akan tersenarai pada masa akan datang," katanya. Pada majlis itu, beliau turut menyampaikan sijil penghargaan kepada 106 sekolah cemerlang di kawasan Kuala Terengganu dan sumbangan cek sebanyak RM100,000 daripada Jabatan Perdana Menteri kepada Persatuan Pengusaha Keropok Losong. Sumbangan itu diterima oleh Pemangku Pengerusinya, Abu Bakar Yusof. - Bernama

PELAJAR MISKIN, ANAK YATIM KE UITM

DARIPADA AKHBAR UTUSAN MALAYSIA

5,000 pelajar miskin, anak yatim ke UiTM

SHAH ALAM 12 Feb. – Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak mahu Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) menyediakan 5,000 tempat untuk pelajar miskin dan anak yatim melanjutkan pengajian di universiti itu setiap tahun.
Beliau berkata, ia bagi memberi peluang kepada golongan itu mendapat pendidikan di peringkat tertinggi di negara ini.
‘‘Jika ini dapat dilakukan, 20,000 pelajar miskin terdiri daripada anak pekebun, anak yatim, nelayan dan anak kakitangan pembantu am rendah akan berpeluang belajar di institusi pengajian tinggi awam (IPTA),” katanya.
Beliau berkata demikian ketika berucap merasmikan Kampus UiTM Puncak Alam Fasa Satu di sini yang dihadiri lebih 1,000 penuntut UiTM dari beberapa kampus cawangannya petang ini.
Hadir sama isteri beliau, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor; Menteri Pengajian Tinggi, Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin dan Naib Canselor UiTM, Prof. Datuk Ir. Dr. Sahol Hamid Abu Bakar.
Kampus UiTM Puncak Alam merupakan kampus tambahan untuk menampung lebih 20,000 pelajar dari kampus induk Shah Alam.
Fasa satu UiTM Kampus Puncak Alam menempatkan Fakulti Farmasi, Fakulti Pengurusan dan Teknologi Pejabat serta Fakulti Sains Kesihatan di atas tapak seluas 138.3 hektar daripada tapak keseluruhannya seluas 434.3 hektar.
Kini kampus Puncak Alam telah diisi seramai 4,200 pelajar dan 520 kakitangan akademik dan pentadbiran.
Pihak UiTM memohon agar kerajaan memberi peruntukan untuk membina sebuah hospital di atas tanah kosong seluas 40 hektar di kampus itu bagi membolehkan 2,000 doktor Melayu dilahirkan dalam tempoh lima tahun.
Perdana Menteri ketika mengulas permohonan itu menyatakan kesediaan menimbang dan menyemak permintaan itu dengan Kementerian Kewangan.
‘‘Saya kena semak ada duit atau tidak sebab perbelanjaan membina hospital ini memang

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Syor guru baru bertugas di pedalaman

BALIK PULAU: Kementerian Pelajaran bercadang mewajibkan guru baru untuk bertugas di pedalaman selama tiga tahun bagi memberi pengalaman serta pendedahan kepada mereka mengenai keperitan bertugas sebagai pendidik. Timbalan Menteri Pelajaran, Dr Puad Zakarshi, berkata pihaknya tidak lagi akan menempatkan guru baru di kawasan bandar atau berhampiran tempat tinggal seperti berlaku pada masa ini. "Biar mereka tahu bagaimana pengalaman bekerja sebagai pendidik terutama di kawasan pedalaman yang kadang-kala memerlukan kesabaran berikutan kesukaran hidup di kawasan berkenaaan.
"Ini masih di peringkat cadangan dan kajian mengenainya sedang dilaksanakan. Bagaimanapun, ini satu pendekatan baik bagi melahirkan guru berkualiti," katanya. Beliau berkata demikian pada sidang media selepas menyampaikan anugerah kepada pelajar cemerlang sekitar Parlimen Balik Pulau dalam peperiksaan Ujian Pencapaian Sekolah Rendah (UPSR) dan Penilaian Menengah Rendah (PMR). Hadir sama, Ketua Umno Bahagian Balik Pulau, Datuk Seri Dr Hilmi Yahaya yang juga Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (Adun) Teluk Bahang; Adun Pulau Betong, Mohamad Farid Saad dan Adun Bayan Lepas, Syed Ameruddin Syed Ahmad.
Mengenai pengambilan pelajar lulusan SPM untuk mengikuti program Ijazah Sarjana Pendidikan di Institut Pendidikan Guru (IPG), Puad berkata, pengambilan kumpulan pertama akan dibuat Jun ini. "Pemilihan calon adalah antara mereka yang mempunyai gred baik pada peperiksaan SPM," katanya. Sementara itu, Puad berkata, pihaknya bercadang memberi kelonggaran kepada pelajar bidang kemahiran dengan membenarkan mereka mengambil hanya satu subjek iaitu Bahasa Melayu dalam peperiksaan Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) bagi membolehkan mereka memperoleh sijil. "Ketika ini, pelajar perlu menjawab subjek lain seperti Sains serta Matematik dan pelajar kemahiran sudah tentu tidak begitu berminat menjawabnya menyebabkan sijil mereka tidak begitu 'cantik' kerana gagal.
"Sebab itu kami mahu memberikan kelonggaran kepada mereka dengan membenarkan menjawab kertas Bahasa Melayu saja," katanya. Beliau berkata, langkah itu bagi membolehkan pelajar bidang kemahiran yang belajar di Sekolah Vokasional dan Teknik melanjutkan pelajaran bagi memperoleh Sijil Kemahiran peringkat lima. "Bagi mendapatkan sijil itu, mereka perlu melanjutkan pelajaran ke program dikendalikan agensi seperti Kementerian Sumber Manusia. Kami hanya menyediakan sijil bagi peringkat satu dan dua saja," katanya.

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