<div dir="ltr"><div style="" id="stcpDiv"><h1>Dual language programme not policy, says minister</h1>
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<p class=""><strong>BY YASMIN RAMLAN</strong></p>
<p class="">Published: 28 October 2015 4:14 PM </p>
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<p><span class="" style="width:540px"><img alt="Education Minister Datuk Seri Mahdzir Khalid says the Dual Language Programme will be implemented in schools that are ready to adopt it next year. – The Malaysian Insider pic, October 28, 2015." src="http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/assets/uploads/articles/MAHDZIR_KHALID_education_minister-250815-TMI-NAZIRSUFARI.jpg" style="width: 540px; height: 360px;"><span class="">Education
Minister Datuk Seri Mahdzir Khalid says the Dual Language Programme
will be implemented in schools that are ready to adopt it next year. –
The Malaysian Insider pic, October 28, 2015.</span></span>The Dual
Language Programme (DLP) is not a policy like the Teaching and Learning
of Science and Mathematics in English (PPSMI), said Education Minister
Datuk Seri Mahdzir Khalid.</p>
<p>He said the DLP would only be implemented in selected schools next
year and have the agreement of groups such as Parent and Teacher
Associations.</p>
<p>"It is a programme, not policy. A programme which will have two
languages for schools that are ready," he told reporters at the Shah
Alam Convention today.</p>
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On the reason only Year One and Year Four pupils would be involved
in the programme, Mahdzir said this was because it was a pioneer project
and to date only 300 schools were ready to adopt it.
<p>The Star Online reported today that the programme will be carried out
gradually starting with 20 to 30 schools instead of all 300 at once.</p>
<p>Under the programme, schools would be given a chance to teach in
either English or Bahasa Malaysia to pupils in Year One and Year Four.</p>
<p>In last Friday's Budget 2016 announcement, Prime Minister Datuk Seri
Najib Razak said the programme was part of the government's efforts to
uphold Bahasa Malaysia and strengthen the usage of English. – October
28, 2015.</p> - See more at:
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