Total Honesty Required In Efforts To Improve Performance Of Malay Students
Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak outlined three main missions for the Federation of Peninsular Malay Students (GPMS) to assist the government in improving the academic performance of Malay students im education.
Firstly, the GPMS must assist the government in resolving the problem of dropouts among Malay students as statistics from the Education Ministry showed the dropout rate among Malay students was still high, he said.
Najib said the second mission for GPMS was to raise the achievement level of Malay male students so that they could compete with female students.
"It's not that I want to deny the women's achievements but I fear the men's achievement level could lead to a different crisis in future," he added.
The third mission is for GPMS to assist the government in resolving the issue of unemployed Malay graduates.
Najib said the government wanted Malay graduates to find other employment alternatives instead of solely depending on job offers from the government.
**** As any analyst will tell you all the three 'problems' are interrelated. An honest appraisal of the causes that have led to the present sorry situation must necessarily touch on 'sensitive' subjects and may hurt the feelings of some. It is not the intention of this blog to do that. However it is adviced that the GPMS, instead of looking for superficial reasons that might indirectly explain the current malady and whitewash the primary causes, look honestly and deeply into the Malay psyche, the adverse impact of government policies including paradoxically, the NEP and the debilitating effect of large unplanned families.
If genuine improvement in the present state of affairs is to be visibly seen in the near future, mistakes made thus far must be acknowledged and rectified, instead of continuing to play to the gallery. In this I can say with some confidence that it is the government and some leading politicians of the past and present who have directly caused the Malays to be stuck in this dilemma.
One person who has extensively written on this and whom GPMS should consult for an honest opinion is Dr M Bakri Musa
Firstly, the GPMS must assist the government in resolving the problem of dropouts among Malay students as statistics from the Education Ministry showed the dropout rate among Malay students was still high, he said.
Najib said the second mission for GPMS was to raise the achievement level of Malay male students so that they could compete with female students.
"It's not that I want to deny the women's achievements but I fear the men's achievement level could lead to a different crisis in future," he added.
The third mission is for GPMS to assist the government in resolving the issue of unemployed Malay graduates.
Najib said the government wanted Malay graduates to find other employment alternatives instead of solely depending on job offers from the government.
**** As any analyst will tell you all the three 'problems' are interrelated. An honest appraisal of the causes that have led to the present sorry situation must necessarily touch on 'sensitive' subjects and may hurt the feelings of some. It is not the intention of this blog to do that. However it is adviced that the GPMS, instead of looking for superficial reasons that might indirectly explain the current malady and whitewash the primary causes, look honestly and deeply into the Malay psyche, the adverse impact of government policies including paradoxically, the NEP and the debilitating effect of large unplanned families.
If genuine improvement in the present state of affairs is to be visibly seen in the near future, mistakes made thus far must be acknowledged and rectified, instead of continuing to play to the gallery. In this I can say with some confidence that it is the government and some leading politicians of the past and present who have directly caused the Malays to be stuck in this dilemma.
One person who has extensively written on this and whom GPMS should consult for an honest opinion is Dr M Bakri Musa
posted by The Malaysian. at 8/14/2006 06:01:00 PM
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