MELAKA: A group of parents are against the introduction of a non-Dual Language Programme (DLP) class in a dozen schools where the programme has been implemented here.
MELAKA: Education activists have called upon the Education Ministry to rescind the implementation of the Dual Language Programme (DLP) policy and allow them to explain the importance of learning Science and Mathematics in English.
PETALING JAYA: Allowing teachers to actively participate in politics must come without any hidden conditions, says the National Union of Teaching Profession (NUTP).
PETALING JAYA: Parents want more transparency when it comes to standard operating procedures (SOP) practised in schools when teachers or students are found to be infected with Covid-19.
This comes as more confirmed cases were recorded, with the latest from SJK (C) Puay Chai 2 here which was ordered to close after six pupils tested positive for the disease and 11 teachers were placed under home quarantine.
The school s parent-teacher association chairman Loh Tian Hong said parents were not told what to do if their child s classmate was positive for Covid-19. There is no black-and-white SOP or guidance given to us. We do not know if it is safe to send our children to school as the pupils come into close contact with each other, including going to the same daycare centre or using the same transporters, he told