Report Online Survey Ethnic Relations

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REPORT

Survey Questions

(National Education Policy)

DATE

26th OCTOBER 2010

LECTURER

Mr. Ahmad Bin Ibrahim

GROUP MEMBERS: (SECTION E35)

1. ZULFADHLI BINSOHOK EC080702. MUHAMMADFARHAN BINZAINUDDIN EC080903. MOHDADLI BINHASSIN EC080774. MUHAMMADKHAIRULAZWAN BINKAMARUZZAMAN EC080415. AHMAD YAZID BINASUAT EC07047


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1. IntroductionThis report is one of the assignments for subject Ethnic Relations orHubungan Etnik

(UHM2022). This subject is designed to promote students unity and integration. This is achieved

by involving students in field work and other dynamic team activities applying the basic concept

and of ethnic relations in Malaysia. Students are required to produce field work report based on

their observation on selected topics related to the Malaysian multi ethnic society. Ethnic relations

issues are integrated in the content of the course where students should analyze critically as well

as demonstrate positive values and foster unity and integration among students.

This project is about studies on national policies that have in Malaysia. So, we have

chosen National Education Policy as our research topic for this work activity. Here, some

information about this topic, National Education Policy. There are 3 words come from National

Education Policy, which are national, education, and policy. The definition for national can is

relating to or typical of a whole country and its people, rather than to part of that country or to

other countries. [1] For education, it can be defined as the process of teaching or learning in a

school or college, or the knowledge that you get from this. [1] Policy is defined as a set of ideas

or a plan of what to do in particular situations that has been agreed officially by a group of

people, a business organization, a government or a political party. [1]

Education is a one of the medium or way to unite all races has in this country. In this

perspective, Malaysia is one of the countries that has shown and proved that by using education

as a platform to strengthen national integration. Since 1956, Education Policy in Malaysia had

undergo varies changes to ensure the quality of education to the people and to strengthen peoples

unity. In 1956, RazakStatement was written. Then in 1960, Rahman Talibs Report was written.

A continues evaluation on education system in Malaysia always goes on. Until in 1961, when

EducationActs was passed in Parliamentary a rigid and legal policy of Education is born.


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This is the beginning of new successful era of education system in Malaysia. Throughout

this act, we had modified previous education system into what we had today. All content in

certain subject such as History, Geographic is been modifying to meet local requirement.

The reasons why Malaysia creates this policy, National Education Policy is to achieve the

objectives that have been target by government themselves. According to Education Acts 1961,

education system in Malaysia aimed to achieve unity of all races since in their schoolhood and to

provide a quality work forces or human capital. Others objectives is according to Razak

Statement 1956 and Rahman Talib Report 1960.

2. Report Review

In this part, we are going to review all the process doing this study form the beginning

until the end of this report. The task is given by the lecturer, Mr. Ahmad Bin Ibrahim to conduct a

survey on national policy in Malaysia. All groups have been asked to choose one policy from the

national policies in Malaysia, so our group has decided to choose one policy which is National

Sport Policy. The process of this survey questions started on 10stOctober 2010 and end at 22th

October 2010, around 3 weeks.

Our groups target is 50 persons consist of male and female students. We open the

respondent category to any Malaysian age between 18-25 years old. Our group questions have

been constructed in one form which made fromGoogle spreadsheets. The spreadsheets are put in

blog which is tmelor.blogspot.com and it can be referred to appendix 1. We have asked the entire

groups target to complete all the survey questions. The link for this survey questions form is :

https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&pli=1&formkey=dFpSSF9wVW5UVGwwOG

RQTEFGYlJkYXc6MQ#gid=0


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This survey form consists of 8 questions. All are objective. Answer yes or no only.

Below are the questions in the online survey:

1. Have you ever heard about National education policy (NEP)?2. In your opinion, does NEP important to Malaysian?3. One of the policies in NEP is to using Bahasa Malaysia as delivering language in all school.

In your opinion, does the implementation ofScience and Mathematics in English could be the

barrier of uphold the Bahasa Malaysia as a national language and its role as Unity Language.

4. Which type of school system would you prefer to send your future kids to?5. One of the objectives ofNEP is to build and farming the unity amongst Malaysian teenagers

through SMK and SK. Do you think the existence of vernacular school such as SJKC

(Chinese School) and SJKT (Tamil School) act as a barrier to unity amongst Malaysians

Kids?

6. Do we need different type of school accordingly to social background of race?7. Does theNEP successfully implemented in Malaysia?8. Advanced countries have a systematic and holistic school system. Their system mostly not

examination oriented but more to soft skills and invention skill to be farmed amongst their

teenagers. Aspect of leadership and others human capital aspect are mainly develop during

their schooling. Do you agree such system is applied to Malaysian school?


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3. Analysis and Discussion1. Have you ever heard about National Education Policy (NEP)?

This question asked about general knowledge of respondents on the existence ofNEP. Near 8%

of total respondents knew the existence ofNEP. While others 26% of respondents representing 13

persons answer did not know about NEP.

2. In your opinion, does NEP important to Malaysian?

In second question, we asked the respondents on the importance of an Education Policy to

Malaysia. 76% of respondents which is 38 persons from 50 the total respondent agree that a legal

policy according to constitution of Malaysia is important to exist and to be implemented. While

the others 9 person deny its importance. This 18% of saying No is due to lack of knowledge on

NEP or maybe they did not agree to the contents ofNEP.


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3. One of the policies in NEP is to using Bahasa Malaysia as delivering language in

all school. In your opinion, does the implementation of Science and Mathematics in

English could be the barrier of uphold the Bahasa Malaysia as a national language

and its role as Unity Language?

This question is aimed to seeking the opinion from respondents about PPSMI. According to the

results, 48% of respondents agree that PPSMI is a barrier to uphold Bahasa Malaysia as a

National Language as others 46% of respondents agree that PPSMI will not cause Bahasa

Malaysia to be a second language in Malaysia.

4. Which type of school system would you prefer to send your future kids to?

This question would like to forecast our respondents favor on which school they believe to sent

their kids to school. 52% of respondents agree to send their kids to Public orGovernment school.

20% of respondents choose to send their kids into private school. While 16% others of

respondents would like to sent their kids to overseas school. Only 4% of respondents like to

send their kids to VernacularSchool.


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5. One of the objectives of NEP is to build and farming the unity amongst Malaysian

teenagers through SMK and SK. Do you think the existence of vernacular school

such as SJKC (Chinese School) and SJKT (Tamil School) act as a barrier to unity

amongst Malaysians Kids?

This question asked about the opinion about the existence of vernacular school such as SJKC

(Chinese School) and SJKT (Tamil School) act as a barrier to unity amongst Malaysians Kids.

About 62% of respondents say yes and the rest 32% of respondents says no.

6. Do we need different type of school accordingly to social background of race?

This question asked respondent about do we need different type of school accordingly to

social background of race. By asking this question, we would like to find out how

respondents view schooling system by races. Majority of the respondents which is 66%

say yes and 24% says no.


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7. Does the NEP successfully implemented in Malaysia?

This question asked about does the NEP successfully implemented in Malaysia.

This question is aimed to find out respondents view about NEP and the success of

implement NEP in Malaysia. As a result, 52% of respondents agree that NEP is

successfully implemented and others 38% says no.

8. Advanced countries have a systematic and holistic school system. Their system

mostly not examination oriented but more to soft skills and invention skill to be

farmed amongst their teenagers. Aspect of leadership and others human capital

aspect are mainly develop during their schooling. Do you agree such system is

applied to Malaysian school?

In this question, we tried to test respondents through a comparison of education system in

advanced countries such as in Europe and America. 82% of 50 respondents agree to apply a

education system that not exam oriented and stress on aspect of human capital. While others 10%

dont agree to apply such system in Malaysia.


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4. ConclusionAccording to various backgrounds of respondents, we believe that Education Policy still

infamous policy amongst Malaysian. Majority of respondents Education Policy is important

to create a quality education system in Malaysia. Yet, most of them reject the existence of

vernacular system in our education system. Responses from respondents are balance in term

of using English as Teaching Language forScience & Maths. Malaysians also hopes that

one day, we will step forward to have free-oriented examination system and more focus to

human capital empowerment education system while not forgetting the academics section.


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Appendix:

Appendix 1:Survey Question Form

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