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Five Education Report in Post Independence
Education Act (1961)
Pursuant to the Rahman Talib Report (1960), basically based on Razak Report (1956).
Razak Report (1956) was studied and suited by Rahman Talib Report (1960) to be fitted as Education Act (1961).
Contents
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Primary school became Sekolah Kebangsaan (SK) and Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan (SJK).
Schooling continued until the age of 15.
Needed at least 15 students to provide religious class, teach Tamil or Mandarin.
Emphasis moral values.
No fees for studies in primary school.
Provided trained teachers and educational aids.
Empowering the national language.
Establish common curriculum.
Challenges
: Difficult to integrate the races due to different polar home places.
Rahman Talib Report (1960)
Rahman Talib Report was made to review the education policy in 1960.
Practically, became the basis for the Education Act in 1961.
Support Razak Report.
Became the basic to the formation National Education.
Proposed
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Malay language as main language in schools.
Free secondary school education.
Automatic promotion until form 3.
Emphasized moral and religious education.
Stress the 3M education (reading, writing, arithmetic / membaca, menulis, mengira).
Opportunity to continue study from 9-11 years old.
Stress the Malayan curriculum.
Stress on a strong spiritual education and desired elements of discipline.
Upper secondary stream (vocational, academic).
Facilitation of education management procedures improved.
Education Act (1996)
An act to provide for education and for matters connected therewith.
Proposed
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Suggest categories of educational institutions (government educational institutions, government-aided educational institutions, private educational institutions).
National language as the main medium of instruction (where main medium of instruction is the national language and for vernacular school shall be taught the national language as a compulsory subject)
National Curriculum to be used by all schools (shall specify the knowledge, skills and values that are expected to be acquired by pupils at the end of their respective periods of schooling).
Schools to prepare pupils for prescribed examination.
etc. further references please look into this:
http://www.agc.gov.my/agcportal/uploads/files/Publications/LOM/EN/Act%20550.pdf
https://www.slideshare.net/Rosnaliza07/akta-pendidikan-44973676
Implication:
Kids with special needs gained attention.
Each races' education was taken care of very well.
Pre-school education expanded.
Religious education (Islam) expanded.
Amended from the Education Act 1961.
Cabinet Committee Report (1979)
Pointed out by Dr Mahathir Mohamad
Established to ensure the education system meets the country's goals of producing a united, disciplined and skills society.
Also to achieve national unity in a multiethnic society.
Proposed
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Review of Bahasa Malaysia in-service courses.
Focus on three basic skills: reading, writing and arithmetic.
Teaching of English as a second language.
Emphasis on sound spiritual education and other disciplines appropriate.
Secondary education divided into two streams: academic and vocational.
Extension of educational opportunities from 9 to 11 years.
Aminuddin Baki Report (1964)
Proposed
:
Establish vernacular schools.
Establish secondary schools with same syllabus at all stages.
Make sure the syllabus in all schools are the same.
Rearrange the teaching system - make all teachers are equal in standard.
Every students have opportunity to get better in education regardless their school background.
Aim to uniting the students to become citizens of Malaya in which multiracial can live in harmony regardless one's background.
Aminuddin strongly disagree with vernacular schools resulting to the existence of five different types of school in the education system in Malaya.