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Posted on 19 July 2018 - 12:03am<br><em>Last updated on 19 July 2018 - 11:04am</em> </div>
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<a href="http://www.thesundaily.my/sites/default/files/thesun/Catalogue/PTJ46_220518_TUGsAS.t5b4709.jpg" class="gmail-box" title="Education Minister Dr Maszlee Malik — Bernama"><div class="gmail-caption gmail-none" style="width:226px"><img src="http://www.thesundaily.my/sites/default/files/imagecache/article/thesun/Catalogue/PTJ46_220518_TUGsAS.t5b4709.jpg" alt="" title="Education Minister Dr Maszlee Malik — Bernama" class="gmail-imagecache gmail-imagecache-article" width="226" height="350"><p>Education Minister Dr Maszlee Malik — Bernama</p></div></a> </div>
<p><strong>KUALA LUMPUR</strong>: The Education Ministry will set up a committee to review the national education policy, said its minister Dr Maszlee Malik.</p>
<p>"The committee is tasked with reviewing the national education
philosophy and policy including improving the educational curriculum and
system from the preschool right up to the university level.</p>
<p>"Encompassing civic awareness as well as empowering science and
technology," he said in a question and answer session at the Dewan
Rakyat sitting, today in reply to a question from Ahmad Faizal Azumu
(PH-Tambun) on the direction of national education.</p>
<p>He said members of the committee would comprise academicians,
politicians, religious experts as well as representatives of
non-governmental organisations.</p>
<p>Responding to a supplementary question on the measures taken to
encourage the use of the English language without neglecting Bahasa
Malaysia especially among the rural community, he said the ministry
would increase the number of English language specialist teachers in the
rural areas.</p>
<p>He said other measures included raising the skill of the existing
English language teachers, inviting retired and graduate teachers to be
involved together in the efforts to boost the use of the language and
try to take in trained teachers from overseas for the purpose.<em> — Bernama</em></p>
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