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Malaysian current policy
By Tiuniasing | August 28, 2007
TBG,
it looks like they are pushing us by teaching Maths in both English and Chinese. For me, it’s actually benefiting our new generation by teaching them an additional language, which is the internation language as well.
One of the most recent news is, the employers are advised not to put up job vacancy advertisements with a prerequisite for candidates who speak Chinese.
That’s the reason why our country fail to compete with Singapore. Singapore government would definitely advise their citizens to learn more so that they can be competitive. But our government ask the public to cut off some of the requirements and reduce the standard and competitiveness in order to ’survive’.
I believe this is the main reason why Proton still needs special treatment from the government. They just can’t survive in a competitive world!!
The above statement is actually my reply to a reader, TBG who quoted in Negarakuku or Negaraku Ku. She said:-
We also pay taxes so that our children can enjoy better teaching facilities, including better qualified passionate teaching staffs, in the Country, without having to resort to fighting for the limited seats in the International and expensive Private Schools. Till today, they are still debating whether the Maths and Science should be taught in English or not. The hell!! Just because of their indecisiveness, my 7 yr old has to learn Maths and Science in BOTH Chinese AND English!!! Make up your minds already!!! -
While replying her comment, it brought me to think more about the government policy and I really have lotsa things to share with you here.
In a business report that I read today titled Jala keen to see MAS post record full-year profit, the Malaysia Airlines System(MAS) managing director Datuk Idris Jala reported a four straight quarters of profits since his taken-over the post of CEO and managing director of MAS in late of 2005.
I heard about Datuk Idris when he was appointed to take over MAS and he was new to me. I followed up the progress of MAS because I really don’t want to see the money I pay to government every year will sink into MAS again. It’s a big joke to me to see MAS had to seek help from government. MAS is not a charity body. They are running business, one of the greatest business in Malaysia. Their airfare is also not cheap compare to AirAsia. But I had no idea why they were losing money all the time when they were run by the previous CEOs.
When Datuk Idris took over the CEO post and he had come out with his business turnaround plan (BTP), I was kinda impressed with it. His plan had been a kopitiam topic and when he sold off MAS building to raise fund and save cost. A lot of people and especially the politicians diued 9 7 Datuk Idris for his move to sell the building. Today, with the report of profits made shown by MAS, I think those who had diued Datuk Idris earlier on can really shut their ass mouth and bang their head against the wall now.
I remember when I talked to my friends about Datuk Idris, right after he had just revealled the BTP, I was the only one who agreed with Datuk Idris’s idea to sell off MAS building. Ah Keong said MAS building is the image of MAS and buying selling the building means MAS has been destroyed. Ah Fung said selling off the building should have been the last move but Idris took it as the first action. They were all kinda sad and disappointed with Idris. But I had a different view on this. I told them, there is no point to keep the image or MAS building if it’s not making money. The real image or muka is actually the yearly financial report. If every year report shows a loss figure, I don’t see any reason to be proud of MAS also.
Of course they were not convinced with my words. They still thought that the image or muka is damn fucking important. By selling off MAS building means jatuh muka to them. Since then, I prayed everyday and hoped that Datuk Idris could play his magic and turnaround MAS from making losses to some positive figures.
Today, I can really stand out and slap Ah Keong and Ah Fung’s face. I put my money on Datuk Idris and it’s proven that I’ve made the right choice. If you check out on Datuk Idris’s turnaround plan, you can easily see that he had got guts to make chances to the MAS from head to toe such as his retrenchment move and getting new bloods to MAS. I read from somewhere that some people were blasting Idris for dismissing the current workers and employing the new people to join MAS. When I talk to people on this topic, I usually can see them shouting in anger and saying that Idris is stupid for dismissing the experienced workers. I had thought about this before and I have come out with a few possible reasons for Datuk Idris’s move:-
- The current workers are too uselss already, that’s why they are not suitable to stay;
- The current workers’ salary is too high and this is one of the main reasons for MAS losses for so many years, that’s why they have to go;
- The current workers’ skills are not up to today’s standard, maybe they can’t speak more than one languages is one of the reason, that’s why they have to quit and learn more languages;
- The current workers/pilots are new to Airbus A380. Only the new pilots are trained to pilot A380?? I’m just kidding;
- The current workers are too relax after having pampered by the previous CEOs, that leads to low productivity and performance, that’s why they need more time to sit at home and think properly about their attitude;
- The current workers are the MAIN reasons for the losses of MAS for so many fucking years, that’s why they have to leave. Enough say!!
I think a similar turnaround plan has to be implemented in PROTON if we don’t want to see PROTON reporting losses anymore!! Wake up PROTON!! Show your power!! Support MAS, support my sponsors!!
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Wah piang eh… 7 early 8 early so serious topic geh…
angel,
just because I am a serious person.
MAS staffs are getting worse and worse, especially their service
WTJ,
sure or not?? My wife just flew to Shanghai with MAS last week. She said the service is first class service. Hmm… She was in business class by the way.
thats for giving my comment such serious thought. Have to agree on your view about MAS’s BTP making a positive and progressive impact on its business. But i have to disagree with your view on the dual-language teaching system, where “making the children study in 2 languages on 1 same topic is actually beneficial”, simply because it would cause them more confusion on the topics (Maths & Science) than actually mastering the language (Eng / Chi).
I was educated in Singapore from Primary School till the ‘A’ Levels, and was exposed to both English and Mandarin in a very systematic manner. I was able to focus my learning of the academic subjects using the English language, and at the same time, appreciate and master the art of Mandarin through the teachings of softer subjects, just as Chinese Literature.
In a nutshell, the younger kids, who are exposed to two languages of the same topic, in my humble opinion, are more confused than anything else. Making it harder for them to master anything in depth. Simply said, “Jack of all trades, Master of none” and ain’t this the core reason why many of our graduates are not deemed as competitive globally because they do not have a strong and unqiue set of strengths to begin with??! Shouldn’t we just stay ‘focused’ rather than ‘digressing’ and ‘getting off tangent’ in many aspects of the nation, even the legislations per say???
Whoa, that’s a refreshing view on stuffs. It’s great to see someone winning against the odds.
Some people just have to be shown the real way to things. Looks like proton have to do some real management, not just some bogus marketing job.
whoops. and TBG *wink* read between the lines
get it?
TBG,
as far as I know in UPSR, the Science paper must have both English and Chinese for the Chinese school students, correct me if I am wrong. If this is true, I think it should not be a problem for the Chinese school students because the English in Science is something extra or additional to them. Perhaps those who are weak can focus on the Chinese only, and those who are strong can learn more from here.
I think by adding English into the Science books, it has indirectly given a chance to the Chinese students to expose a ‘more English’ environment, which what our Chinese students are lack of. We don’t underestimate the kids, they can learn fast. If the teachers are good (Both in English and the subjects they teach), I am sure it will not be a problem to the kids.
We, Chinese are known for able to speak in more than one language, and this is the beauty of our people. Of course, I kinda agree with your ‘of all trades, Master of none’ statement. But what to do, we have to live in this way to survive.
Jonny,
you look kinda interested in TBG!! Hahaa…
Tun: Yeah, I kind of remember the different papers offered to students of the Chinese schools. But the last I know, they have to take BOTH, which my younger brother and sister are the ‘victims’ of such system. Call me an ‘extremist’ but they, as well as their classmates in the cohort, are now speaking either rather minimum or very broken English.
Indeed, they get the ‘exposure’ but what I am saying, the ‘exposure’ was done very poorly (like stuffing down the duck’s throat). It could have been better, and yes, there is always this false hope of ‘could’ and ’should’.
Anyway, I’m just venting whatever I have felt over the past 2 decades on this subject, and worry for what my children are going to go through in the next decade. Hope this is not annoying you too much
and fingers crossed nothing scandalous is stemming from here.
TBG,
I am open for discussion, no worry.
You said you are exposed to both English and Mandarin in a very systematic manner, which allow you to focus your learning of the academic subjects using the English language, and at the same time, appreciate and master the art of Mandarin through the teachings of softer subjects, just as Chinese Literature.
In my opinion, this is the best way of learning too. I do not really know what exactly the government have behind the rock. But from what I can see is, they are trying to have Science in English ONLY. It’s our people, Chinese community who want Science to remain in Chinese at the same time. Consequently our next generation will have to suffer because of one thing, dignity.
Regarding this, I was told that the Chinese are worried that Chinese language will be getting lesser and lesser, and will be disappeared one day!! What say you??
The only way Chinese culture is going to ‘disappear’ is when the FAMILY start not to pay attention to such culture!! The school SHOULD NOT be held solely responsible for that, simply because its a place where students learn about things such as social living skills, interactions with people from different backgrounds, as well as discipline, amongst all. Its not fair to say that the Chinese Culture would get flush down the toilet bowl SIMPLY because they are not learning SCIENCE or MATHEMATICS in CHINESE!! How narrow minded!!
Look at this from the other side of the coin, IF the children are pissed off about having to learn one subject in 2 languages, hence the additional stress, won’t they be more likely to get sick of the subject as well as the language?? And that would hinder their interests to pursue the art of the language!! BUT if they are left alone to learn the language in a more engaging manner (but I’m not indicating that hard subjects like Science and Maths are not engaging), wont they be more likely to develop deeper interests in the culture?
Trust me, its mainly when the families that are lacking in the practice / passing on of these culture will the culture ‘disappear’.
TBG,
I think all the problems and worries that we, Chinese community have today, have got a lot to do with political issues, which we could hardly get it solved by a few sentences only here.
It’s holiday now, let’s have a relaxing weekend. Cheers!!