KUCHING: Adenan Satem said he is “sick and tired” of requesting for more federal funding for Sarawak schools, which he lamented have been in poor condition for too long.

“They ask me, what do we do with our educational policy? “I give them a very simple answer: build standard schools.

“I am sick and tired of appealing to the Federal Government to provide us better schools,” the Sarawak Chief Minister said today. He said this when launching the Iban-English Dictionary in Kuching.

Present were Deputy Chief Minister Douglas Uggah Embas and former Deputy Chief Minister Alfred Jabu.

Adenan also said he was sick and tired of hearing about schools that collapsed into the river or about them without water supply or electricity. “If we are behind by 10, 20 years, it’s okay.

But if we are still behind by half a century, I cannot tolerate that.
“I cannot tolerate that any more. We must be assertive on our policy on this matter.”

There are close to 470,000 students in Sarawak, with 42,000 teachers attending them as of January, according to the State Education Department.

Over half of the students are from rural areas. In June, a primary school in a fishing village in Spaoh, Betong, collapsed into a river, taking along with it a nursery and a surau. No one was injured.

Local authorities blamed water erosion and the dilapidated condition of the structures. The destroyed school, SK Kampung Buda, was a Malay-medium national school.

By law, the Federal Government oversees the funding and operation of national schools, including teachers’ salaries, school buildings and assets. Nationwide, three-quarters of over three million primary students are enrolled in over 7,500 national schools, according to the Education Ministry.

Adenan said he accepted diversity within Sarawak’s education system, adding that he wanted more teachers from Sarawak to be hired by the government.

“I am now trying to change some aspects of educational policy in Sarawak. We cannot just follow what is dictated to us, in Kuala Lumpur. “Uniformity does not necessarily mean unity. “Diversity can also mean (unity) because we appreciate each other’s way.

“So I hope that starting with our teachers, they will mostly be Sarawakians who teach in our schools.” Meanwhile, Adenan noted that the Iban language contained many Malay phrases but which were accentuated and pronounced differently.

He also hoped the Iban language does not go extinct like many native languages.

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Inkambing autonomy in Sarawak education

That was promised in 1976 Malaysia Agreement.

so he ask for more autonomy from bijan and had a meeting. say wanna make annoucement.

now all senyap until this

Hopefully deposit in the safe is enough to buy the autonomy this time

Di capati!

wayang or real action....let us see

dunno what last ketua menteri doing for state education..

actually everyone is tired
dnt say sarawak
WM side also hard because federal keep cutting education fund....sampai beli kertas pun tiada duit

Yes, take out all the teacher from semenanjung you ungrateful bastards!

next action : Bangsa Sarawak

Better

u no see what he say.
education is under federal
federal is not doing their job

taliban and islam can back to malaya and spread the ideology in malaya.
good for them.

Umno don't want smart kids, or they'll realize who to vote out. Better keep them in check and uneducated, easier to give candies durong election.

amiright?

As I said, najib is losing grip in this country.

Why dont he ask Taib Mahmud?

perception je

rosmah's grip still stronk

I thought Najib wanted to build some park with 600 million?

Her grip is only in certain gov agencies. But among the leaders she no longer have any influence. Maybe to those penjjlats, but majority no. They still support najib just to save their position. If got chance all will change tune in an instant.