The former minister laments that many of the Education ministry's achievements were ignored for more sensational headlines.
Outgoing Education Minister Maszlee Malik took swipes at negative press and politicking for drowning out the ministry's achievements during his time at the helm.
However, since 2018, the Education Ministry has been transparent with all its initiatives and education reform progress. The Education Ministry became the first ministry to table its 100 Days of Pakatan Harapan report and then an annual performance report card for 2019. This trend was then followed by other ministries. Even yesterday, there were other ministries that had just tabled their report. What is important is that the Education Ministry is in the lead.
Malaysian children regardless of race, background or which state they came from. We see thousands have returned to school, thousands have managed to continue their education in school and universities. We have also launched the Malaysia Reads movement. This formed part of our efforts to make sure that by 2030, Malaysia would become a country of readers, and we have seen today that this reading campaign has been expanding nationwide. It is still new, but give it a few more years, we will be able to see a bigger change.
One of them is corruption. It is generally known that many parties had been getting contracts through cables before this. It is not a secret. The Education Ministry is among the ministries that were under MACC's radar, and it is working hard to battle this practice. The Education Ministry had ensured that this system is open so that schools can choose which is the best Internet system and platform for their students. Only after this, can we focus on IR 4.0 and Stem education in schools.
This includes the renewal of our Tvet programmes to enhance the marketability of our Tvet students to 96.5 percent.
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