{"id":20135,"date":"2017-11-24T16:11:04","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T08:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=20135"},"modified":"2017-11-24T19:05:58","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T11:05:58","slug":"tiang-do-not-be-too-focused-on-academic-achievements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=20135","title":{"rendered":"Tiang: do not be too focused on academic achievements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Tiang, \u00a0Secretary for SUPP Pelawan Branch and also a political secretary for the Chief Minister applauded the decision of<b>\u00a0the Education Ministry\u2019s 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.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Tiang \u00a0support ed \u00a0the 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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n<p><b>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\u2019s education<\/b>,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Tiang\u00a0firmly 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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/unnamed7.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20136\" alt=\"unnamed\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/unnamed7.jpg\" width=\"2340\" height=\"2688\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/unnamed7.jpg 2340w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/unnamed7-261x300.jpg 261w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/unnamed7-891x1024.jpg 891w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2340px) 100vw, 2340px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Tiang, \u00a0Secretary for SUPP Pelawan Branch and also a political secretary for the Chief Minister applauded the decision of\u00a0the Education Ministry\u2019s 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.\u00a0 Tiang \u00a0support ed \u00a0the new approach by the Eduction ministry that is no special emphasis given to the academic achievements but to include<a href=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=20135\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20135"}],"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=20135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20137,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20135\/revisions\/20137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}