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Education in Malaysia
Education Ordinance 1952
Suggestions:
Five types of schooling systems; English schools (English as the medium), Malay schools (Malay as the medium), Chinese schools and Tamil schools.
Curriculum according to the individual school systems.
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Objectives:
To review the Barnes and Fenn-Wu report recommendations.
To seek compromise for all concerned parties.
Cheeseman Report 1946
Created by Mr. H. R. Cheeseman. It was the first change made for the education under the Malayan Union. This education policy is created to rebuild the education system, to ensure every type of school system is fully developed.
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Suggestions:
Free primary education for children attending vernacular school at the primary school level.
The use of English, Malay, Mandarin and Tamil language as a medium in secondary school.
Include science subjects in the syllabus.
English to be compulsory subject in all vernacular schools.
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Barnes Report
The Barnes Committee under L. J Barnes was created to review the education system.
The Barnes Report was a British proposal put forward in 1951.
Suggestions:
Establish bilingual schools with English and Malay as the medium.
National School to replace Malay, Chinese and Tamil schools.
Replacing Jawi script classes for Islamic education classes.
Rejected because:
Negative reaction from the Chinese community. They community agreed with the basic recommendation that Malay be treated as the principal language but felt that there should be some provision to recognise Chinese and Tamil as important components of a new definition of Malaya's national identity.
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Objectives:
To develop a national education system in British Malaya.
To study and improve the education system.
Fenn-Wu Report
Held as a result of dissatisfaction of the Chinese community towards the Barnes 1950 report. This Chinese education report in Malaysia was led by Dr. Fenn and Dr. Wu.
Suggestions:
Chinese Malay and Tamil vernacular schools are allowed to operate and use three languages, Malay, Chinese and Tamil language alongside the national language.
National-type Schools (English Schools) are maintained.
Vocational schools continue to be developed to meet the needs of skilled labor needed.
Rejected because:
Cannot be accepted by the leaders of Malay as the proposal does not benefit the Malays and the country.
Unity for the country can still be achieved with diversity of the instruction medium.
Objectives:
Serving the needs of the Chinese community at that time who considered the Barnes report as eliminating the Chinese language and Chinese culture.