To my Malay brethren, if you cannot see how this (if indeed it IS happening) will eventually destroy any hope for REAL and EFFECTIVE progress of Malays in the next 50 years, but instead choose to ignore or treat this as the typical non-Malay propaganda/accusations, then consider the following:
1. in the Malay-medium SRJK’s and SMK’s, Malays make up the bulk of the students by virture of being (i) 60% of the population, and (ii) having a greater rate of population increase, than non-Malays
2. most non-Malays are opting out of Malay-medium SRJK’s and SMK’s. especially Chinese where the Chinese-medium schools are known for their almost near-obsession with acadamic performance
3. most non-Malays already plan for the children to go from SMK’s straight into private institutions. I am not saying there’s no cheating at these institutions but at least if discovered, appropriate action will be taken to protect the reputation of the institution and the value of their academic performance and qualification, not ignored, pooh-poohed or swept under the carpets of officialdom and ‘race interests.’
4. all who can afford it (both Malays and non-Malays alike) have taken their children out of mainstream SRJK’s and SMK’s, and sent their children to private schools.

So, it is not diffcoult to imagine what will happen to the next 2 generations of our students, both Malays and non-Malays alike BUT, the fact is more Malays than non-Malays will suffer the consequences.

I am not a Malay, but humour me and allow me to address you as my brethren because under the skin, we all have white flesh and red blood and deep down, we are all good, have sincere intentions and can live in peace, harmony and shared vision. My brethren, do what the Malay parent did (wrote a letter to RPK to expose this) and arrest this before it is too late. I am a parent myself, and if my kids cheated in their exams, and I knew about it, I would have knocked their blocks off. This is not about RACE but about doing what is RIGHT, and it is all the more urgent for Malays to insist that the powers-that-be do what is RIGHT for the FUTURE of ALL, ESPECIALLY Malay, students. God bless you and give you the wisdom to see the issue and courage to arrest it.

Coming back to our national language. Being a language which represents our nation, its name has been changed so many times. We had Bahasa Melayu which was changed to Bahasa Kebangsaan, then from Bahasa Kebangsaan to Bahasa Malaysia. Subsequently, Bahasa Malaysia was again changed to Bahasa Melayu. All these changes are redundant and only goes to show how good a language our national language is. A language which cannot even determine for itself its proper name would only pose as a shame onto the people of the nation.

Then, there is a call by the government and MCA for the people of Malaysia to learn Chinese, claiming that Chinese would be an important international language. How can anyone learn good Chinese when the number of Chinese schools are so limited and furthermore have to accomodate non-Chinese students? All these propaganda by the MCA is nothing but political show. And each time it obtains something from the government, MCA always use the phrase “we fought for it”. Why should the MCA fight for it? Hasn’t it been laid down in the Rukunegara that “….membina masyarakat yang adil……”. What then is adil? Perhaps our top people in the government has forgotten the existence of the Rukunegara or its wording. It is not a composition or essay by a primary or secondary student but it is an official document of the nation, having gone through both the upper and lower house and received the royal assent.

As a Chinese small kid, I ever blamed my parents for sending me to Chinese schools, as my mindset is English ed is much better than Chinese ed. After working for couple of years, I realised it was relatively a stupid idea to ignore Chinese language!

Not only because I’m Chinese, that’s why I need to learn my mother language, but at the same time, China’s market is there now waiting for us to invest!

It’s always an advantage if we know foreign languages, especially English / Spanish & Chinese!

Just my one cent worth of opinion.

Cheers. ;)

Well ablastine, I dare to say that out of the 30-40% that are still remain, their next generation had already left or planning to go abroad for good (from my real life experience). Isn’t this the trend as a outcome of our so called “successful” education system? Should we applause for it’s great success to get rid of the bright minorities?

August 13th, 2007 at 03: 29.35
Headline: “Our education system a big failure”

Too bad. I think our grandchildren will say the same again in 2057!

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It’s only right if they’re still a part of it……
Well probably they won’t. It’s either the education system change for good or we change the location of their education for good. Then probably they’ll say ” THEIR education system is a big failure, and luckily I’m not a victim of the system”

The scenario in our public universities: lots of Malay students (on paper taken into our public universities based on meritocracy), who are really not the best of their cohorts, competing against non-Malay students, some of whom have excellent STPM results. Not a fair competition. Furthermore, a large proportion of the teaching staff are now Malays who work there through SLAB (Skim Latihan Akademik Bumiputra), i.e., weaker Malay students who studied and graduated at our public universities and subsequently were taken in as academic staff. This selection system (not necessarily for the best graduates to be future academic staff) has been going on since 1970s and obviously leads to the current academically weak situation in our public universities.

Why are we surprised that the standard of our public universities goes from good to bad to worse to boh liao?

We live in a global arena and like it or not, English is the only medium which has no boundaries to communication. Even in darkest Africa, people speak English! Arabs speak impeccable English, as do Vietnamese and Chinese. If we stick to nationalistic policies, our children wil stand no chance against the rest of the world when it comes to global opportunities. Well, like I said before, thats the last thing our leaders are concerned about, isn’t it? As long as they can rape and plunder, who cares if we continue to go backwards.

I have yet to hear anything throughly incisive and smart from Najib in all these years. This is a professional politician who knows how to take care of himself first and far more than anything else.

Again its pre-election rousings, next will come the goodies and baits like offering scholarships and special treatment to the few in the rural folks to get ALL OF them dreaming of riches and joining the elite.

It works frankly. Najib is not smart but he is no idiot either…

Leaving politics aside, any reasonable person with basic common sense would come to the same conclusion.

Some of the critical failures are worsening racial polarisation, religious intolerance and education quality and standards.

Too bad. I think our grandchildren will say the same again in 2057!

This efflux is neither gentle nor recent. From the three best classes in sixth form in my school at a time when I was a student in the seventies, I dare say only about 30%-40% still remain in Malaysia. Almost all the students in the classes were of course from the minority groups. I suspect the outflow if anything has only become greater through the years. So if the sampling of my former class is representative of the state of affair in Malaysia, we see an attrition of at least 60% of Malaysian’s brightest. Remember, when we loose one it is not just one less for Malaysia but one up as well for our competitor as well. So every loss is a double whammy.That is why when we step out of Malaysia for instance into Singapore, we will meet many Malaysians or who were once Malaysian holding important government post, successful enterpreneurs, top lawyers, judges, surgeons, physicians, bankers,architects, scientist all the way down to the courtesans and masseurs. So we have a whole tetonic shift and emigration of the young and able from the minority groups into the rest of the world to be replace by perhaps, illegal immigrants from Indonesia. It is obvious where all this is taking us.

Is it any wonder now why almost no Government institution or projects succeed. The obvious answer is, besides, rampant corruption, the quality of people that is put in charge. It is almost mandatory now for these institutions to be headed by only representative of the majority race. I must say no matter how hard one looks there is a limit to the number of talents in a community. Unfortunately for Malaysia, the bright and talented do not fade away into their community and disappear when well deserving opportunities are not accorded to them. They are courted by our competitors world wide and with their talents will almost accomplish the impossible for their employers elsewhere and inadvertently strike back at us. So we have MAS making record after record losses, while SIA becomes the most profitable airline in the world, both run by Malaysians (or former Malaysia in SIA case). Malaysia essentially now becomes the culture medium which nuture and educate its progeny but when they become mature and productive send them to be harvested by the rest of the world. This is a loss the country cannot afford. This is the direct result of affirmative action and have every damn opportunities in the country base on ethnicity.

ANOTHER CRUDE OBSERVATION

Being reading some blogged Malay articles lately and was astounded by the no. of English words adopted into the Malay vocab.

If this keeps going on, very soon Bahasa Malaysia will soon be considered as a form of English like pidgin English. In fact I think it’s so “english”.

All Dewan Pustaka needs to do is change all the spelling back to English format and bravo, in one day, our command of English would increase by at least 15% (rough guess). lol

This is truly a success story. Among the Malays who went through this education system, a large proportion of them speak and write excellent English – in fact, in many residential schools and Mara junior science colleges, English is widely used. Furthermore, students of these special schools and colleges do not take STPM. They follow the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Program, an international program.

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If this is the case these people should be excellent students in Uni, but why we’re still out of top 500 and produced no known researchers? Are they all not studying in Local Uni then?

A CRUDE OBSERVATION

Our education is doing the opposite. Instead of getting rid of the impurities, we chuck out most of the “pure” and kept all the impurities.

This was process was repeated over and over gain in the last 30 odd years. Now the whole system is defective.

Let us say 10 students, A, B, C, … and so on sat for an English test, and their results are: Student A – 90 marks, Student B – 85 marks, C – 60 marks, D – 45 marks, E – 40 marks, F – 30 marks, G – 28 marks, H – 20 marks, I – 16 marks, J – 13 marks.

If the passing mark is set at 50 marks, then only three students, A, B and C, pass. The percentage of students who pass is 30%. Too low? You want the pass percentage to be 60%? No problem. Just ‘promote’ three students by enhancing their marks. Give E 20 marks so that he now has 60 marks, give G 25 marks so that he now has 53 marks and give H 30 marks so now he has 50 marks. There you have it, the pass percentage is now 60%. So easy, like eating tofu.

Notice that you only‘promote’selectively. This is very unfair to Student D and in time he surely will notice such ‘promotions’ are being practiced by the examiner. May be even Student F will notice such unfair practice because normally his mark is higher than H but now H passes and F himself fails the test.

Herein lies the difficulty of the selective promotions method. So it was abandoned in favour of our present method — that of lowering the passing mark. In our example if we set the passing mark at 29 marks, then four students will fail. We again will have a 60% pass percentage.

If you think a passing mark of 29 is ridiculous, then you ain-t seen nothing yet. There is not a mark they would not stoop to. If some ‘higher authority’ demands a 80% pass percentage, the passing mark has to go down to 19 marks and so there it will go down to. The defence of the official who fixes the passing mark is that he is merely following an instruction from the ‘higher authority’.