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No action against such teachers. Education Ministry condones the promotion of violence and use of “guns” to school children?
Zaid: Money no guarantee for best education system
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 21, 2024: Former Law Minister Zaid Ibrahim has slammed Education Minister and her Higher Education colleague for promising the best education system in the country after receiving about RM100 billion in Budget 2025.
Zaid said: “We will not have the best education because the Government does not know what it wants out of education. It's not your fault alone. The religious bureaucrats are in control of our education system, not proper educationists.
“We used to have a top-class education during our early years when we had little money. Singapore, after separation, took our best teachers and students. That's how good we were.
“It's now gone, and no matter how much money we have, we can no longer change the characteristics of our schools.”
Zaid is spot on on his criticisms, especially on Education Minister Fadhlina Sidek.
No News Is Bad News and many Malaysians still remember how Fadhlina openly and shamelessly supported the promotion of violence and the use of firearms to students in schools. (View the above picture of a teacher brandishing a “gun” and educators clad in militant berets in a raid in school.)
Till today, apparently, no action has been taken against the educators who promoted the violence to school children.
Do you expect such a moronic Fadhlina to really have the right mind to provide the best education in Malaysia?
No News Is Bad News reproduces below what Zaid penned and Fadhlina’s response to the budget allocation for education:
*By Zaid Ibrahim*
*Good Education and Fadzlina*
The Education Minister and her Higher Education colleague received almost 100 billion in the latest budget. No wonder Fadzlina was smiling. She quickly promised the best education system in the country.
Dear Fadzlina, We will not have the best education because the government does not know what it wants out of education. It's not your fault alone. The religious bureaucrats are in control of our education system, not proper educationists
We used to have a top-class education during our early years when we had little money. Singapore, after separation, took our best teachers and students. That's how good we were
It's now gone, and no matter how much money we have, we can no longer change the characteristics of our schools.
New Zealand and Britain are known for their quality education, yet the Education Ministry never received the biggest allocation, which goes to public health and social welfare services.
The Big money Fadzlina will receive will get her more schools and facilities but not better education. She can't undo the deep Islamisation of our education system
Religious education is the problem but is the main attraction for Malays. Our national schools have become religious schools, with more religious classes than maths and science.
On top of that, we also have many types of religious schools. Schools should be centres of excellence in producing good students and not become religious centres to produce pious people
No one controls religious schools because religion is shared between states and federal governments. The religious bureaucracy calls the shot. Educationists of a different kind determine our education system
Money can't solve the problems of hundreds of thousands of students in religious schools (federal, state, public-funded, public-assist, and privately funded schools) because no one authority is responsible. What about Tahfiz schools? Who monitors them? Will they get good jobs later?
Days before unleashing the biggest education budget, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia prohibited staff from criticising government policies. That's not a sign that we offer a good education
All the state governments have declared Ikhwan Holdings as deviant. How could a company with no soul be guilty of having the wrong kind of akidah or faith? It's bizarre. This is the product of poor education.
Supporters of a religious party believe that the passport to heaven is the membership of that party. That's not the outcome of a sound education system
Efforts to define acceptable Muslims who are not deviants have strained the resources of many religious departments. Selangor just admitted they are challenged to deal with 42 or more deviant groups
A government that is unwilling to recognise the many diverse sects of Muslim believers such as Sunnis Shiias. Salafists, Hanabalis, Khawarij, etc., are the product of poor education
A government that does not allow freedom of conscience will have to arrest more and more deviants, which means they have to spend more resources to search for them. This quest for religious purity will never end, but they will never stop.
That's another example of what poor education can do.
Zaid Ibrahim
Fadhlina pledges ‘quality learning environment’ after RM64bil allocation
-19 Oct 2024, 03:56 PM
The education ministry also received the largest budget allocation this year at RM58.7 billion.
Fadhlina Sidek said her ministry is committed to improving the national education system.
KUALA LUMPUR: Education minister Fadhlina Sidek has pledged that students will receive comprehensive support and a quality learning environment after her ministry was allocated a record high RM64.1 billion in the 2025 budget.
Fadhlina, whose ministry also received the largest budget allocation this year at RM58.7 billion, said it is committed to improving the national education system.
Our children will benefit greatly (from the budget allocation) such as from the construction of new schools,
she said at a press conference after the launch of an education carnival here today.
Additionally, renovations to canteens and suraus, especially in Sabah and Sarawak, are a continuation of our commitment to improve dilapidated schools.
Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said 44 new schools and 34 new preschools will be constructed next year under the 2025 budget, which he tabled yesterday.
He said a total of RM2 billion has been allocated for the upgrading and maintenance of schools nationwide. This includes RM1 billion for maintaining all types of schools, particularly dilapidated classrooms, and RM1 billion for upgrading infrastructure in 543 schools, especially in Sabah and Sarawak.
A total of RM5.3 billion has been allocated for 17 types of educational assistance, including RM2 billion in food assistance for boarding schools and RM870 million for the Supplementary Food Programme, which benefits more than 860,000 students.
Additionally, RM800 million has been allocated for Early Schooling Aid to all 5.2 million students from Year 1 to Form 5, regardless of their parents’ income.
A trust fund for poor students has also been increased to RM180 million from RM150 million previously, while RM100 million has been allocated for school facilities, including canteens and prayer rooms.
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