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5 Education Reports - Coggle Diagram
5 Education Reports
- Cheeseman report (1946-1948)
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• Make a report about curriculum in English and Vernacular Schools.
• Arranged by Mr Harold Ambrose Robinson Cheeseman, Education Minister of Malayan Union
• Main Malayan Union education administration policy
• Vernacular Schools in primary level, Secondary: Middle/High School (in English)
• English was compulsory subject in primary school
• Free education for kids who attend vernacular school.
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Benefits
• One of the main steps taken to rearrange the education system in Tanah Melayu
• Free education for lower education stage
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• To abolish the vernacular schools in Tanah Melayu
• Introduces a national school system which would provide primary education for 6 years in Malay and English
• Malay and English as the intermediate language.
• The reaction of the Chinese community to the Barnes Report was not totally positive.
• While the community agreed with the basic recommendation that Malay be treated as the principal language, it felt that there should be some provision to recognize Chinese and Tamil as important components of a new definition of Malaya's national identity.
• Partly to pacify the ethnic sensitivities, the colonial government approved a modified formula that would allow bilingualism in Malay schools (Malay and English) and three language "solution" in Tamil and Chinese schools (either Tamil-Malay-English or Chinese-Malay-English).
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• Vernacular schools continue to exist
• Does not profit the Malays, mainly on the Chinese
• Ask for more financial for the school administration and built a teacher training college for the Chinese school.