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ACTIONS AND INACTION OF THE MINISTER OF

EDUCATION OVER SIX ISSUES GIVE LITTLE CONFIDENCE
THAT THE NATIONAL EDUCATION BLUEPRINT WILL BE
PROPERLY IMPLEMENTED
Pakatan Rakyat Education Taskforce Response to the National Education Blueprint (NEB) Final
Document on the 10th of September, 2013
Actions and Inaction of the Minister of Education over six issues give little confidence that the
National Education Blueprint will be properly implemented
The Ministry of Education have had many nice sounding Education Blueprints in the past but have
failed at the implementation stage. Even though the Education Performance and Delivery Unit
(PADU) will be established to oversee the implementation of this latest Education Blueprint, the
response and the lack thereof on the part of the Minister of Education to specific revelations in the
education system leaves us with little confidence that this latest Education Blueprint will be
properly implemented.
Firstly, the Minister has refused to divulge the passing marks for SPM General Mathematics,
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Additional Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and English because this is classified under the
Official Secrets Act. This is totally against Thrust 11 of the Final Document which is to Increase
Transparency for Direct Public Accountability. If even passing marks are classified for national
security purposes under the OSA, what is to say that the passing mark for the English SPM paper
will not be further decreased when the compulsory pass is put into effect in 2016?
Secondly, the Minister has failed to respond to the canteen in the shower room occurrence in SK
Seri Pristana. Not only did his Deputy Minister dismiss the incident as only a small problem, the
police have questioned children in this school without their parents consent and one parent was
even allegedly detained for supposedly intimidating the schools headmaster. These actions does
considerable harm to creating confidence in national schools and will lead more parents to vote
with their feet and choose not to send their children to national schools.
Thirdly, the Minister has failed to respond to accusations that the Physical Education (PE)
Diplomas given to teachers by the United States Sports Academy (USSA) under a Ministry of
Education program was not only unnecessarily expensive, costing RM27,000 for a 6 month
program, but is actually only a certificate level program and not a diploma. If such a diploma that
falls short of MQA standards for a diploma can be offered, it calls into question the fact that other
training and retraining programs under this Education Blueprint will also be improperly awarded
and result in sub-standard outcomes.
Fourthly, the Minister had failed to respond to the latest incident of headmasters selling a chewing
tablet with the name Dimensi 108 which has been supposedly endorsed by the Council of
Headmasters of the Districts of Mersing and Kota Tinggi respectively. This scandal is a reflection
of the Ministers ability to implement Thrust 6: Empower JPNs, PPDs and Schools to Customise
Solutions Based on Need and Thrust 8: Transform Ministry Delivery Capabilities and Capacity. If
the Minister if not able to come down hard on these errant Headmasters, it gives us very little
reason to believe that the power to be devolved to the state and local education agencies will not
be abused.
Fifthly, the Minister has failed to adequately explain why YTL Corporation, a company with no
previous experience in education software and the manufacturing of computer hardware, was
given lucrative contracts to rollout a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) platform for students,
teachers and parents and also to supply every single student with a Chromebook under the 1
Student 1 Device policy. Furthermore it was revealed that these Chromebooks were supplied to
the Ministry at a higher than market price. The awarding of these contracts call into question
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Thrust 10 which is to Maximise Student Outcomes for Every Ringgit.

Sixthly, the Minister has failed to assign 460 DPLI (Diploma Perguruan Lepas Ijazah) graduates to
national-type schools that are still lacking teachers. These graduates were interim teachers before
they were enrolled in the DPLI course in December 2011. They even enjoyed an allowance of
RM1,300 per month during the course. However 3 months after the completion of the Diploma
onMay 23, 2013this year, MOE failed to assign these graduates to any schools. It reflects a poor
planning on the part of MOE and it is also a total waste of resources, again in contrary to the
commitment of maximizing efficiency.
These six examples provides concrete evidence that the Minister of Education does not have the
political will nor the desire to properly implement the 11 thrusts outlined in the National Education
Blueprint Final Document.
Pakatan Rakyat Education Taskforce

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