MAKING a choice on which school your children should attend is a critical decision and it is no doubt that it can be challenging as it will affect their future. More often than not, parents would grapple at the multitude of factors that influence these decisions, as it is crucial to determine what kind of educational environment and experience you would want for your children, as well as your long-term educational goals for them.


Whether in the early years, or at the primary or secondary school level, the choices can be perplexing, especially with an array of private, international to vernacular and public schools available in the country. Just like our diverse cultural and ethnic landscape, the Malaysian education platform provides parents with an indeed tougher and wider range of options.


And speaking of options, the paradigm has now also been shifted from the norm − where parents once opted to send their children to national schools, it has now become a common scenario where more parents send their children to international schools.


This is proven with the rise in the numbers of student enrolment in international schools each year. According to the statistics provided by the Ministry of Education, 20,000 students were enrolled in international schools in 2013, compared to 15,000 the year before, as reported by iMoney.my.


Surprising, or not, this fact makes us question: Why are these numbers escalating? Have parents really lost confidence in our national education system? Is our national education system really poor in quality, resulting to the poor performance of local students as according to the Programme For International Student Assessment (PISA)'s ranking -- where Malaysia is languishing in a dismal position at 52 out of 72 countries



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quality education.. i studied there before.. much fun in learning compare in national school

Have parents really lost confidence in our national education system? Is our national education system really poor in quality, resulting to the poor performance of local students as according to the Programme For International Student Assessment (PISA)'s ranking -- where Malaysia is languishing in a dismal position at 52 out of 72 countries



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Free from religion.

Isn't international school farking expensive? Couple weeks ago dunno who opened thread in /k/ and calculated that entire schooling in international school costs rm900k+ in school fees alone.

more accustomed to the racial differences and more focus towards personality which leads to sometimes stupid egoistic ideal that nobody gives a shit about.

Ada wang so why not.

Good stuff doesn't come cheap.

Unlike gomen school where you pay peanuts and get taught by monkeys.

U wull become less religious think wiser this is true

is it better to send children to international during primary or secondary school?

Well if I have the money, I won't let my kids study in national schools

/k afford to have this

Later when not money.. Blame gov for high cost of living

Primary. They will pick up a nice American or British accent (depending on the teacher - most international school head teachers are ang moh).

Secondary should send early. Hard to undo bad habits picked up in gomen school.

international school study high level subject

Vernacular school all full already

Cannot downgrade. Deswai go international school

networking from young

agree..send during primary will pick nice english accent.

meanwhile during secondary they will build connection with rich kids

900k divide by 12 years is 75k/annum.