{"id":19335,"date":"2017-09-04T09:37:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T01:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=19335"},"modified":"2017-09-04T11:03:12","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T03:03:12","slug":"masing-need-to-improve-rural-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=19335","title":{"rendered":"Masing: need to improve rural schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The low enrollment in Sarawak rural school is\u00a0affected by change in demographic patterns in rural Sarawak, said\u00a0Deputy Chief Minister, Tan Sri Dr. James Masing.<\/p>\n<p>Masing said in\u00a0 the 60s &amp; 70s the rural population was widely\u00a0scattered, and Sarawak government, in its effort to spread education\u00a0to rural populace, had to built more schools for remote communities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As demographic pattern change due to better accessibility, the remote\u00a0resettlements moved to town centres, thus depriving the rural area of\u00a0its population and the students to fill the schools. The federal\u00a0government&#8217;s reluctance in giving the needed resources to improve\u00a0rural schools in Swak aggravated the situation. The government did not\u00a0feel the need, understandably, to put resources to the low enrolled\u00a0schools and the parents are reluctant to send their kids to the\u00a0dilapidated schools. Thus, the situation spirals downward,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Calling it a chicken and egg situation, Masing said the Sarawak\u00a0government thus moves to invest its resources to improve rural schools\u00a0and the consolidation low enrolled schools is the only way forward\u00a0which is like &#8216;pulling the bull by the horns&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>He asserted that\u00a0 the Sarawak government will\u00a0 bill the federal government\u00a0on the cost to improve its schools.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image14.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19336\" alt=\"image1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image14.jpg\" width=\"1080\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image14.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image14-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image14-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The low enrollment in Sarawak rural school is\u00a0affected by change in demographic patterns in rural Sarawak, said\u00a0Deputy Chief Minister, Tan Sri Dr. James Masing. Masing said in\u00a0 the 60s &amp; 70s the rural population was widely\u00a0scattered, and Sarawak government, in its effort to spread education\u00a0to rural populace, had to built more schools for remote communities. &#8220;As demographic pattern change due to better accessibility, the remote\u00a0resettlements moved to town centres, thus depriving the rural area of\u00a0its population and the students to fill the schools. The federal\u00a0government&#8217;s reluctance in giving the needed<a href=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=19335\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19337,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19335\/revisions\/19337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}