Inequality In Education System In Malaysia
Education inequality in malaysia rosni bakar associate professor universiti malaysia sarawak.
Inequality in education system in malaysia. Due to societal pressure the result is the sole indicator of determining your performance in the school. No wonder some youths today feel the lack of equality and a sense of solidarity in their environment at home school college and university. Education in malaysia is overseen by the ministry of education kementerian pendidikan although education is the responsibility of the federal government each state and federal territory has an education department to co ordinate educational matters in its territory.
The education system is divided into preschool education. The system of segregation tagging and inequality has resulted in the country losing out in terms of having a strong and diverse pool of highly talented and skilled workers. The system has used the same curriculum since 2008 which itself is only a slightly edited version of the curriculum from 2001 the state of education in thailand.
Even within the existing public school system there exists a degree of educational inequality. For example psacharopoulos 1977a and ram 1982. In measuring the degree of educational inequality in the education system of a given country several methods were used in previous studies.
Going by the programme for international student assessment pisa scores for the last three surveys 2009 2012 and 2015 thailand s education system has been struggling. Free education under the malaysian school system might satisfy the egalitarian view on education. For many innocent students in malaysia education means scoring the test papers acquiring more knowledge for the exam and of course aiming for higher number of as.
