A veteran of 21 years in academia, Mohd. Tajudin Mohd. Rasdi spills the beans on the REAL reason for the sudden switch of the teaching of Mathematics and Science subjects in Malaysian schools to English more than half a decade ago.
His published article in Malaysiakini on 5/1/09 begins like this:
"The issue of science and mathematics was a total bolt out of the blue - there was no debates or concerns that built itself up to culminate in the radical move to change and even challenge the present constitutional position of the Malay language.
As an academic and a person very much concerned about nation-building, I wish to offer my perspective about the so-called ‘English proficiency problem’ and the language switch concerning science and mathematics. I wish to make three points very clear in this article.
The first point is that the language switch of science and mathematics to English was a ‘brilliant’ but selfish political move by Dr Mahathir Mohamad to save Barisan Nasional’s neck in the light of the Anwar saga and the ‘reformasi’ movement of 1998."
Click here to read the full story.
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