Dismayed by the compromise by Barisan Nasional parties on the language switch issue, the DAP today announced a nationwide campaign to highlight the flaws of the policy.

DAP chairperson Lim Kit Siang said the campaign, scheduled to begin on Nov 19 in Kuala Lumpur, is intended to show that the implementation plan has "no educational merit whatsoever" and would burden students unnecessarily.

"That this is a politics first and education last policy is best illustrated by the reaction of the director-general of education Abdul Rafie Mahat, who was quoted as saying by The Star yesterday that the Barisan Nasional supreme council decision was purely a 'political' one," Lim told a press conference in Petaling Jaya.

Last Thursday, all BN parties agreed to accept the proposal put forward by four of the coalition's Chinese-based parties for the teaching of Maths and Science in Chinese primary schools to be conducted in two languages.