mamakk!!!

The Star Online reported:

As of June this year, 9,372 students from Form One to Form Three studied Bahasa Iban in 55 schools, with 165 teachers available.

For Form Four next year, it is estimated that 1,440 students will take the subject in 48 schools under 144 teachers.

Malaysia Students blog wrote:

I urge all non-Malay students to take the respective native languages as a subject and sit for its examination, be it in PMR or SPM. If we do not speak and preserve our own native languages, who should we hope for doing so?

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Malaysia Students: SPM – Iban as New Subject
The Star Online: Iban to be SPM subject

School holidays start on 18 November, 2006 and will end on 3 January 2007. What do you plan to do during this annual holiday?

Malaysia Students suggest:

• Preparing for major examinations
• Travelling – relax and refresh our minds and souls
• Working as part-timer – gain working experiences
• Taking courses up or joining a camp – driving lessons, computer classes, writing courses, to improve ourselves; English camp, religious camp to motivate ourselves and meet new friends

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This year, the Malaysian Ministry of Education released the overall analysis of Ujian Pencapaian Sekolah Rendah (UPSR) results. The Star Online wrote:

A total of 496,439 pupils sat for the UPSR examination this year at 8,030 centres nationwide from Sept 4 to 6.

Compared to last year’s results, this year saw a slight decrease in the percentage of candidates who achieved the minimum grade requirement in 10 out of 12 subjects.

Although the overall quantity of candidates who achieved grades A, B and C in all subjects dropped, the number of straight A pupils increased to 42,029, up 1.2% from last year.

This trend was best reflected in Bahasa Melayu SJK (writing), which had the largest decrease of 5.7% in the number of candidates who achieved the minimal requirement, but also the largest increase of 13.8% in the number of grade A scorers.

via Bernama:

WASHINGTON, Nov 14 (Bernama) — Malaysian student enrolment in American universities declined over six consecutive years since 1999, resulting in its removal from the top 20 list of foreign students this year, the Institute of International Education (IIE) announced Monday.

The IIE, in its annual report, said enrolment from Malaysia saw a significant 10.2 per cent slide in 2005/2006 to 5,515 from the previous year’s 6,142 students.

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