YOURSAY ‘One of world’s best - if DPM is not embarrassed by the statement, I am.’
Muhyiddin concedes UPSR leak embarrassing
CQ Muar: "Malaysia is seen as a country having among the best education systems in the world, and the Education Ministry had long established a sound system," said Education Minister Muhyiddin Yassin.
Gosh, you must be imagining we were 'born yesterday' to buy your self-inflated 'doctrines'. After 57 years since Merdeka, here you're harping about steps to strengthen the education and public examination systems? Isn't it a case of too little late, Mr DPM?
Barely five years to go and we're to achieve the developed nation status (in 2020), and here we are struggling with the basics and fundamentals on education.
You can hardly handle the education portfolio efficiently, with examination question papers leaked now and then, therefore you ought to be announcing your resignation instead of making proclamations about our education status.
Vijay47: Hey, what you smoking, man? One of the best education systems in the world? Who told you that, your wife?
This statement itself assures us that the leaks are going to be part of our menu for a long time. Muhyiddin, if you are serious about eradicating the problem, the first thing you do is to admit the existence of the problem, not dress it up in some misguided effort to paint yourself as a hero.
You say that leaks are "still happening". So what have you been doing all these while? Why was the situation not addressed earlier?
Some teachers outside Kuala Lumpur have been arrested and while it is a start, we hope it is not the end.
We all know that the real failure point must be in headquarters itself, not some tiny school in Tumpat.
By next year, you would have got the problem licked - you will claim that it is all a perception and such rumours were the work of the opposition supporters who are jealous of the best education system in the world.
Sorry, Muhyiddin, you get an F9.
Louis: Malaysia has one of the best education systems in the world? If DPM is not embarrassed by the statement, I am.
Our education is indeed the best, but ministers' children are mostly sent overseas. The children of those staying in Johor flock in great number to Singapore to study.
HardTruth: None of the first world countries as ever claimed that they have the best education system in the world, here we are, the DPM and education minister of Malaysia boldly claim our mediocre education system is seen as having the best in the world?
He is a national embarrassment at epic proportion.
Imanust Nais Yalam: This chart clearly shows how badly our kids did in the last Pisa (Programme for International Student Assessment) test. Is this the result of "having among the best education systems in the world"?
Our kids are now worse than those from Thailand and Vietnam. Thanks for nothing, Muhyiddin.
Oh Ya?: Muhyiddin should be more worried that this leakage business underscores the country's crooked culture molded by Umno's 57 years rule that has neither respect for governance nor any sense of responsibility and accountability.
Otherwise, the minimum that Muhyiddin should have done is to appoint a judicial inquiry into the scandal and submit a white paper to Parliament.
Of course, he won't have any of these. Instead he has already prejudged the SOP (standard operation procedure) is the culprit and his solution is to force a task force to revamp it.
At the end of the day, the real culprits will go scot free and the scandal will be covered up as it recurs.
Ren Ai: Yes, the leak is embarrassing, but the criminal connivance of teachers and heads of schools in "secretly" handing the leaked papers out to their students is even more distressing.
Neetsognam: I wonder why this uproar over leaked exam papers. The aim of an exam is to assign standard, that is, to be able to say this student is of this standard and that student is of that standard.
Of course, a leak compromises all that and a bad student may score all As. But does this matter in a country like Malaysia?
It is known that different students are marked differently, i.e., two students sending in the same quality responses may get different marks depending on whether one is favoured or not.
In this case, even a properly run exam would not be able to assign standards, so why worry about the leaks?
Paul Warren: Really? If it was embarrassing he would have resigned already.
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