Tiang: do not be too focused on academic achievements

suppadmin | November 24, 2017

Michael Tiang, Secretary for SUPP Pelawan Branch and also a political secretary for the Chief Minister applauded the decision of the Education Ministry’s decision not to highlight the number of As obtained by pupils and no comparisons between students, schools and states. In the past the overzealous focus on academic achievements by the pupils and schools was totally misguided and therefore detrimental to the holistic development of pupils.

Tiang support ed the new approach by the Eduction ministry that is no special emphasis given to the academic achievements but to include other components like Sports, physical and co-curricular activities assessment, classroom assessment and psychometric assessment into the new holistic education approach.

” As a parent myself, I also always believe that it is gravely misleading to say that we are providing education to our children, where in fact they are told to do one thing only, that is to study hard. By doing so, the education institutes are discriminating pupils who are not good at studying but excellent in other fields.

As such, I also hope to see a joint effort and seamless cooperation between Ministry of Sports and the ministry of education in implementing this new holistic approach for our children’s education,” he said.

Tiang firmly believe in order to make Malaysia to the top 20 Nations by year 2050, our national leaders need to take bold and new approaches in producing more compatible and competitive talents to achieve that vision.