Where the Malaysian government fails...

1. National Service (NS): Those who have not turned out to report for national service will be sued in courts. What the heck is this? Instead of bringing those matters to courts, the ministry and the related ministries SHOULD think, dig out, and analyse the reasons as to why many youths did not report for the service. Why the National Service isn't appealing to Malaysian youths? And why Taiwanese and Singaporean youths see that their respectives national services as something great, challenging and rewarding to them? Malaysian government should first examine the core and perhaps their weaknesses before jumping into conclusion like a moron that the faults are with the youths! And the recent rape case which was unveiled, and said to happen in Terengganu is the best evidence of the National Service's failure and fault. Truly disapponting and horrendous to hear such a news. The government cannot guarantee a safety ground for such a big public and national event, and this shows, in the first place, the government has neither rights nor trust to call youths for national service, how much more suing the youths in courts. TAK MALU!

2. Splitting of the Education Ministry: This isn't a real wise move after all. Education is a continuous process, is a never ending process in life as everyone knows and for this reason I believe, there should be a coordination between primary, secondary and tertiary education. I don't know how the Education Ministry and Higher Education Ministry work out together and co-operatively on structuring the education system in Malaysia. What I believe is that the policies behind the Education and the HIgher Education ministries should be parallel and interconnected. Nevertheless, I see that by splitting the continuos task into 2 different distinct tasks, there are high possibilities of putting blames and pointing faults on each other. Education is a long term strategy planning. It is like playing mastermind. The higher education in Malaysia is a total disaster now, because of the weak and poor policies and structures in primary and secondary education. Trying to rectify and implement solutions in higher education, obviously tertiary education, by introducing the HIgher Education Ministry is a sign of Malaysian government's short-sightedness. When an architect designs a building, the base or the ground is the core or fundamental structure which the future outcome, which is the building, is brought forth. It is the same with education. It all goes back to primary and secondary education. Using the Higher Education ministry to improve the standards of Malaysian universities shouldn't be the way because the standards are already rotting since primary and secondary school days. Don't go too fast. First go back to the base and don't simply jump to the peak without looking at the rotten root. If the government truly wants to develop and improve the tertiary education, I believe they should plan and structure the primary and secondary syllabus to be constant and not ever-changing from time to time, and know that having a special ministry to accomodate for the needs of higher education is powerless if the subtances provided to the universities are already rotten. WORK FROM THE GROUND AND NOT FROM THE FLOATING CLOUD.

Well, again, this is just another piece of opinion from me. Anytime, anywhere, anyway, there are a lot that you can talk about education in Malaysia. Inconsistency in its structure and policy-makers. Abrupt changes without thinking of the consequences. Hangat-hangat tahi ayam is the way of Malaysia after all.