EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES FOR THE ORANG ASLI

• Education Incentive Assistance Scheme (JHEOA) : funds the primary school, secondary school and IPT students to ease the burden of the Orang Asli parents.

Some of the government’s efforts to help the Orang Asli

School fees Majlis Sukan Sekola Menengah (MSSM)

Co-curricular School Assistance

Monthly test papers Exercise books, workbooks and stationeries

School sports School unifroms

Islamic and moral education activities

Students transport fare

Gov. increased the budget from RM3

million – RM6 million

• Co-curricular activities • Food Supplementary Prog.

(RMT) • Cultural activities

SUCCESSFUL

• Orang Asli students have achieved 8As in PMR exam in 2006

& nominated for Tokoh Maulidur Rasul 2007 • Has improved the quality life of Orang Asli

ACTION PLAN FOR THE INDIGENOUS GROUP

• The Ministry has made efforts to democratize the opportunity to provide quality education to bridge the education gap between the different cultural & socio-economic groups in the country.

• In line with the core challenges of PIPP (Teras 4) – bridging education gaps

• To ensure that no student will be left behind.

Measure taken by Ministry in redesigning the school:

Good infrastructure facilities

Hostel facilities

Best teaching materials

Special ‘outreach’ education

Visiting Action Committee in managing the education of Orang Asli children Daily needs: medicine, dental care, going house to house, registration of Orang AsliChildren, talks and encouraging savings among Orang Asli

Gov. efforts to improve education

facilities

• Providing funding and technical support to assess the effectiveness of additional

reading program – providing reading materials (Sabah & Sarawak)

• Creating programs – Life Skills Based Education (LSBE)

• Early Intervention Program for basic literacy (KIA2M) from 2006

2005: MOE expanded pre-school education in rural area• Pre-school edu for 92,303 children • Increase per capita grant & strengthen the

implementation of National Preschool Curriculum for children aged 5+

• Expand recovery pogram – upgrading 2800 class recovery and remedial teachers