KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian students will not be able to choose between English or Malay as the medium of instruction for the learning of Science and Mathematics.According to Education and Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin, such an option would result in chaos for the national education system.
“If we give parents this choice, it will cause chaos (kucar-kacir) in our education system. It will be difficult for the Education Ministry to plan as to whether a school will teach (the subjects) in English or Bahasa Malaysia,” he told reporters today.
Muhyiddin admitted that many English teachers in the country were not up to standard and used this as an excuse to revert the medium of instruction to Bahasa Malaysia.
“How are we going to prepare the teachers? As we know today, some of our English teachers are not that good, so if a school doesn’t have good English teachers, the hopes of parents will not be achieved,” he said.
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