Education System in Malaysia

This document provides an overview of the education system in Malaysia, focusing on the history of schools, urban and rural education systems, quality of rural education, strategies to improve the education system, and the effectiveness of rural education over urban education. It discusses the advantages and disadvantages of urban and rural education, as well as the challenges faced in improving the quality of education in rural areas. The document also highlights the strategies implemented by the government to enhance the education system in Malaysia.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
HISTORY OF SCHOOLS IN MALAYSIA...............................................................................4
URBAN EDUCATION SYSTEM IN MALAYSIYA...............................................................4
RURAL EDUCATION SYSTEM IN MALAYSIA ..................................................................5
QUALITY OF RURAL EDUCATION IN MALAYSIA ..........................................................5
STRATEGIES USED TO IMPROVE THE EDUCATION SYSTEM IN MALAYSIYA........6
Effectiveness of rural education over urban education of Malaysia ..........................................8
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
References .....................................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Education in Malaysia is governed by the government of the country but the central government
have delegated the responsibility to the respective state government so that the education system
can be properly taken care of. Education is the ongoing process which helps the people to
increase their knowledge and also improve their skills, values, beliefs to become a better person.
Education helps the person to understand things better and it has various ways in which a person
can be educated. The government have also understood the importance of educating their citizens
so that they increase their knowledge and increase their standard of living, this is the reason why
government also provide free education to the citizens of the country as it will also help to grow
the country efficiently.
HISTORY OF SCHOOLS IN MALAYSIA
Schools in Malaysia were first started as madrasah and Islamic oriented schools since Malaysia
is majority Islamic country and the government of Malaysia was not involved in education
system due to British colonial rule on Malaysia(Bailey, Nomanbhoy and Tubpun, 2015.) . The
schools which brought the innovation in the education system in the country and that was
because of British rule on the country. Penang brought the English as the education language and
provided with the free education to all the citizens of the country. The British were also
responsible to establish a better education system for Malaysia by opening training centers and
colleges for the teenagers to understand the language and dread the literature properly. After the
country was independent the government of Malaysia also amended to teach the secondary
language other than English to keeping in mind the Malaysian background and culture. The
Malaysian government also understood that the population is more involved in the rural and
agriculture and does not feel important to educate themselves so the government started the
missionaries and schools which provide foods and shelter for the children who are poor and
cannot afford to pay for the food or the fees of the schools. The government also converted the
British laws and made the Malaysia language as the first priority for the childerns they also
formulated an education Act,1996.

URBAN EDUCATION SYSTEM IN MALAYSIYA
There are many advantages in living in the urban areas as the citizens will also gain the best
facilities in the cities and also have a better hygienic living standard as compared to rural areas.
The education system in urban area is also having some advantages. The schools in the cities are
very broad-minded and have a better teaching experience and it also help the students to increase
their knowledge by the increase in the exposure and also better skills and techniques of teaching.
The schools in urban school also help the students to increase the social linguistic of the society.
The education in the urban area helps the student not only educate about the syllabus but also
about all the aspects of society and also gives them a vision to see a bigger picture of their future.
As the modern schools also have the better co curricular activities which help the students to
increase their knowledge in that field and also support them to participate in the games by
understanding the psychological stability of the kids. Malaysia have also addressed m,any private
schools to open in the cities which helped the citizens to get better education quality and also
increase the knowledge of the students. This helped the country to increase the economic growth
of the country.
RURAL EDUCATION SYSTEM IN MALAYSIA
The education system in the rural are of Malaysia is very poor as the there are no facilities and
the quality of the teachers are not good. The teacher who are educated and have better skills
move to urban cities to find the better jobs and facilities in their living they also have to increase
their income. The teachers which have no options start to teach the rural schools and this creates
a big gap between the rural and urban education level. The rural schools do not have any other
faculties to educate their citizens, and they also do not have a proper system which promote the
other activities to boost their health and mental stability. The rural areas in Malaysia do not have
the better technology which will help the education to provide the better learning to increase the
potential of the citizen an increase the growth rate of rural areas.
QUALITY OF RURAL EDUCATION IN MALAYSIA
The quality of education in rural areas in Malaysia is very poor and the government have also
understood that the factors which have declined the quality of the education. Due to uneducated
population of the rural areas they do not want their latest generation to educate themselves as
they are unable to understand the importance of education and what benefits it will provide t

them as a persona and the whole society. The major issue which decreased the quality of the
education on rural setting in Malaysia are the poor education o the teachers as they are not
having the proper education level, which also make them a poor source of education in the rural
areas(Wong and Kadir, 2017.) . The rural areas also have understood the lack in the proper salary
which also demotivate the teacher to pay attention to the proper education to their students and
also make create a poor quality of education in rural areas. There are no leadership styles which
are not applied in the rural areas, and they are also not effective in proving the proper influential
skills to motivate the citizens to understand the importance of education in the rural areas. The
Malaysian government have also made many attempts in improving the rural education system.
The private education system are also not investing in the rural areas which is also a reason of
poor quality of education as the private schools in the country need the proper funds which
comes from the high fees and also increase their profits as their main objectives is to increase the
profits of their schools and also increase the effectiveness by innovating the techniques and
methods which cannot be possible in the rural areas.
Technology in rural areas are also a very big factor which creates the hindrance in the effective
education system as lack of technology. Malaysia is nor effective in spreading their telecommute
network to the rural areas due to low economic growth in the rural areas which also discourages
the multinational companies to set up their bases there. Internet also help the people to connect
from the world and also help them to self educate from the data which is already in the server to
improve their knowledge and also use the information according to their interest and improve
their own personality.
Infrastructure are not allowed in the rural areas as the citizens in Malaysia are not in the
agreement of destroying the nature and agricultural lands to educate their generation. This
creates a very bad health environment for the people who want to educate and do not get any
facilities in the small towns and villages itself. The another factor which is stopping the
population of rural areas to grow due to its poor education system the government of Malaysia
after the independence changed the polices and made the Malaysian language the first priority
which makes English language of no use, but due to the negligence of English in the rural areas
it is very difficult for the people to cooperate with the modern work who works in English
language and this also make the system fall behind in the educating them in proper way. As the
government of the country is also not understanding the importance of English in educating the

rural areas. The education which was given to the students in the schools were of no use to the
students, and they were not been able to follow the theories in the real life as they are not
exposed to the outer society because of lack of connectivity of technology in the rural
areas(Abdul Jabbar and Selvaratnam, 2017.) . The people of the rural areas also do not have
enough money to buy a telephone and they also do not have the proper knowledge to use the
smartphones as they can help them to increase the reading and learning skills with the increase in
communication skills and listening skills which will help them to understand the English
language better.
STRATEGIES USED TO IMPROVE THE EDUCATION SYSTEM IN MALAYSIYA
The government of Malaysia have analyzed the lack of proper education system in the rural
areas which is creating a gap in the urban and the rural sector of the country and making them
lacking backward in the society. The government have made some strategies and laws which will
help the rural people to educate themselves with proper effectiveness and also connect to the
society easily. The vision was drawn by the government that by 2020 by the prime minister of
Malaysia that they will improve the education of the country and also improve the rural areas
education by 2020 effectively.
The Malaysian government have forced the state educational authority to improve the eduaction
by analyzing the factors which are hindering in the growth of ths rural sectors and decreasing the
overall value of the country. The government also have attracted the private sector schools and
the big companies to establishing in the rural areas by proving them some special discounts and
offers like subsidies so that they do not bear many losses and also creates a better platform for
the rural area. This will also increase the quality of education and moral of teachers with the
increased and regular salary which will improve the students effectively. The companies have
also invests in setting up the bases in the rural to provide them the internet facilities to connect to
the world and this also have encourages the employment opportunities of the rural areas giving
them the better standard of living.

Steps taken by the government of Malaysia to improve rural education
Government has taken step of providing nutrition to children so that children do
not miss school because they need to work because they need to eat. Hunger still
keeps millions of children out of school around the world(Sirat and Da Wan,
2016.) . This step will help every children to take education. Reducing teacher
absenteeism is another step to improve rural education in Malaysia. High level of
teacher absenteeism is common in rural areas because most of the people do not
want to teach in rural area. High level of teacher absenteeism is also costly for
government. It negatively affects students learning outcomes that is why reducing
teacher absenteeism is important. The government has taken various initiative to
improve the command of the English language among teachers and students in
both urban and rural area. Malaysia plans to recruit trained English teachers from
India soon to help improve the competency level of local teachers in school in rural
areas. English will help students in their career. Government should focus more on
teaching quality and learning outcome than numbers of schools. Government has
opened numbers of schools in rural area but the education is not provided properly
in schools. Government should take steps about its improvement. Government has
taken steps against gender discrimination in education. Everybody has equal right
of education. Government of Malaysia has opened numbers of schools in rural area
to improve education in rural area. Government has recruited many teachers in
schools to educate children in rural area. Government is also providing eduction
about technology in rural area.
Effectiveness of rural education over urban education of Malaysia
Education sector all over the globe is developing day by day countries needs to develop
effective policies for development of their education system at large scale. Education is

requirement of each and every person and an individual and nation needs to know how to use
those education to develop their individuals and their people of economy which helps them in
growth at large scale. Education is future of a nation. Each and every country largely depends on
the youth sector of the nations and development of that sector needs a proper education.
Education needs to develop for the welfare of economy at large scale and development of overall
population of the nation(Ahmad, Yakob and Ahmad, 2019.) . Helps economy to develop at large
scale and use innovative policies that helps in overall growth of the sector. Malaysia education
system is divided into many parts like preschool, primary, secondary schools. Education system
of Malaysia provides free education to poor people because they are not able to afford those
education. But the education provided by government to rural students are not as effective as
urban education it stops children to expand their growth at large scale. Effects overall growth of
students urban education helps bring innovation in the students whereas rural have low impact
towards their students. Government of Malaysia prepare a rule that primary education for their
students is compulsory. Students are qualified for getting primary education in Malaysia at age
of seven. Government provide primary as well as secondary education for free in some parts of
their nation. Education helps them to evolve their students at large scale;e helps them to develop
and use innovation for their upbringing. In Malaysia there are 10,000 schools are available where
government porovide education for free.
Inequality
Large number of private schools of Malaysia are not ready top give education to those
people of rural areas. Inequality plays a major role in underdevelopment of rural sector over
urban sector. Urban schools keep kids of rural areas as separate from those of urban area.
Students have less facilities over rural areas. Government shows inequality to the students of
rural areas they have no required resources that helps them in their development and establish
new process for their development. The students of rural sectors are treated like indigenous from
other sectors of society. Stops overall growth of the students of rural sectors at large scale. The
education system is declined day by day in rural sectors due to those inequality.
Lack of professional teachers
Urban schools have a experts and professional teachers to teach them and helps them
whenever any confusion or problem arises in their education. Whereas in rural areas their large
number less uneducated teachers who have no experiences and their concepts are also not clear

to teach students of rural areas. Teachers are main source who helps students to develop and
solve their confusions. Teachers helps their students to bring innovation in the students of urban
sectors. Whereas students of rural sectors have no idea about technologies and innovation in their
sector.
Poverty
The people of urban sectors have money and resources that they are able to manage their
studies over the private schools. Rural students have less money to afford their studies and have
no resources for their development at large scale. Due to poverty they are not able to afford
studies in urban sectors or they are bound to develop their studies.
Lack of interest in studies
The students of rural sectors have no interest towards studies. They are not ready to take
up challenges. Because their upbringing and education level of their parents as well as
environment where they leave have a large impact over their development and plays an
important role in their studies. Lack of interest over adopting new changes and technologies that
helps them for their development as a whole. Students require to develop themselves and build
their interest to understand the education system. Government needs bring awareness in minds of
their students and help them to develop at large scale.
Lack of technology and innovation
Due to increase in level of education of students of urban sectors they have better
abilities as well as resources so that they bring innovation in their studies as well as in their
working. Have technology like digital studies and home studies are available to students so that
they can clear their concepts anytime(Lay, Ahmad and Ming, 2017.) . In rural areas the basic
concepts of students are not clear and have less abilities to think with innovation. The lack of
resources like digital tools for studies effects the growth of rural education of Malaysia.
Physical distance
Kids of rural areas needs to take hours to reach their schools as they are situated at long
distance from their homes. Whereas the kids of urban areas have large number facilities

CONCLUSION
This report had a brief information about the education system of Malaysia's rural sector and
what are the factor which are affecting the poor quality of education in the country. The analysis
conducted by the government of Malaysia also helped them to understand the quality of poor
teacher and poor teaching methods which created a huge gap between the urban and rural sector
of the country. The government had also delegated the authorities to the local education
authorities to ensure the proper flow of education no matter what the investment it would cost as
the uneducated society will lead a dark future of the country and will decrease the efficiency of
the country.

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