Bahasa Melayu + English = RM800mil ?!

Saw it on the news preview government just now. Apparently Malaysian government want to revert back to Bahasa Melayu in the teaching of Math and Science in English. I think it's a good move, as many of student especially in the sub-urban and kampung area fail to cope with English implementation in both Science and Math despite years of training and hard works. Most of them are crawling just to grasp bit by bit what teachers teach in class. Thus, most teacher (i'm talking about the kampung area, from what I've seen) teaches in Bahasa Melayu. So the "Pengajaran dan Pembelajaran Sains dan Matematik dalam Bahasa Inggeris (PPSMI) will officially be converted back to Memertabatkan Bahasa Malaysia dan Memperkukuhkan Bahasa Inggeris (MBMMBI). Sound like fun eh? :)

But hey, it's RM800 million we talking about here. And that only cover the early stage of the overall transition. He said, that the money will be use to build/change software, hardware and to train the teachers. Its is such a large amount. Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin (Malaysian Minister of Education) also state that this long term campaign will cost around RM5 billion.

note: Wow! Thats a whole lot of money flowing. RM500mil and then another RM5bil. Let's hope its really gonna be put to good used shall we? Just sound too much to me, but hey, what do I know about politics + education right? Let's just wait and see haha...
p/s: might put up a dual-Bahasa blog after this :)

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