Speech By Chief Minister of Penang Lim Guan Eng During The Official Opening of the Karpal Singh Penang Learning Centre & Penang Badminton Academy At Jalan Kaki Bukit, Bukit Gelugor, Pulau Pinang On Friday, 9 May 2014.<\/p>\n
First let me thank Dato\u2019 Seri Kalimullah and ECM Libra Foundation not only for the RM 4 million donation for which we are grateful but also for the kind suggestion to name it as Karpal Singh Penang Learning Centre. We will accept as directed. Thank you.<\/p>\n
We live in an ever fast-changing world environment where the one assured path to success is a sound education system. Not only can education reduce income inequality, but it too, can provide social mobility and economic opportunity to all. In short education is the lifeboat to our future.<\/p>\n
The World Bank in its report notes that a lynchpin of Malaysia’s transformation into a high-income, sustainable and inclusive economy is ensuring the country has a high-performing education system. It added that \u201cAccess to schooling is a necessary but insufficient condition for building human capital that will propel economic growth. In addition to ensuring the system has the broadest possible coverage (quantity), the quality of education is perhaps even more critical,\u201d.
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Malaysia\u2019s education crisis is in a downward spiral following the latest Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report on education assessment that only one out of 100 15-year-old Malaysian students able to solve complex problems. We are willing to work together with the Federal government to address the wide disparity between its best and worst performers in order to improve educational standards.<\/p>\n
The 2012 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) put Malaysia again at the bottom 25%, coming in at 39th out of 44 countries, in the test on creative problem-solving. Malaysian students had been assessed by PISA to be 3 years behind the best students in South Korea, Shanghai or Singapore, scoring below average and ranked 52 out of the 65 countries in mathematics, science and reading. What is shocking is that Malaysia is worse than Vietnam of Thailand in science and mathematics.<\/p>\n
Whilst Malaysia invests more than 20% of our national budget in education, there is no value for money as such investment serves to satisfy the needs of bureaucrats rather than meet the aspirations of the students to acquire knowledge and skills in order to realise their talent and potential. For instance Malaysia spends less than Thailand in education for students in the first ten years of their education from 6 years to 15 years old.<\/p>\n
Luis Benveniste, the World Bank’s lead education specialist for the East Asia region, says scholars have argued that for Malaysia to catch up with high-income economies like Japan and South Korea, it requires the growth of a capital-and skill-intensive manufacturing sector, and of a high-productivity service industry.<\/p>\n
Where our education fails our economy can be seen by our low number of university graduates. Gross tertiary enrolment in Malaysia is only 37.1%, far behind South Korea’s 101%, Finland’s 96% and the US’ 95%. About 25% of Malaysian males between the ages of 15 and 19 are in the labour force.<\/p>\n
Unless there is a mindset shift towards investment in education accompanied by high aspirations as a nation to build on human capital, how can we grow into a high-income developed economy? One solution towards resolving Malaysia\u2019s education crisis is rejecting the stultifying \u201cone size fits all\u201d uniformity in favour of customization that returns to the basic principles of pursuing excellence and the teaching of cognitive and non-cognitive skills<\/p>\n
The time has come to empower teachers by rewarding the best, getting the best out of them with cognitive and non-cognitive teaching and able to help students who fall behind. Malaysia has no choice but to develop a high-performing education systems that focus on both cognitive (factual knowledge) and non-cognitive (team work, leadership and communication) skills. We cannot permit our education to fail our economy.<\/p>\n
We must be confident and daring enough to invest in education. We must provide our youths with opportunities and supply them with platform to demonstrate their talent and strengths. For, it is only when we are bold enough to invest in the future can we truly be victors of it.<\/p>\n
In this light therefore, the Penang state government will be adopting a 3-pronged approach towards strengthening our education system namely:-<\/p>\n
Providing annual funding to all existing half-funded vernacular and religious schools;<\/p>\n
Building Learning Centres with the concept of STEM – Teaching of Science, Technology, English and Mathematics as their main focus; and<\/p>\n
Attracting world class universities as well as adopting the German vocational school system within multi-national corporations.<\/p>\n
For Penang to have a digital technological cluster that works, it must be profitable in the market place. First, we need to have a sizeable startup colony (\u201cecosystem\u201d) and also hundreds of startup schools (\u201caccelerators\u201d) to drive and propel the ecosystem forward. In between there is a need for entrepreneurial talent with digital knowhow or technopreneurs to make digital technology work in the marketplace by being profitable.<\/p>\n
The Karpal Singh Penang Learning Centre is a starting point. The Penang state government can provide some seed money and a platform but the basis of success will still depend on the private sector, individual entrepreneurs and digital experts. And we thank ECM Libra Foundation for lending such a big helping hand.<\/p>\n
Today, we witness the completion of both the Karpal Singh Penang Learning Centre and Penang Badminton Academy, aimed at providing our youths with a better choice – to upgrade their knowledge and skills. With that mentioned, we hereby wish to thank our sponsor, ECM Libra Foundation for their financial support.<\/p>\n
ECM Libra Foundation allocated RM 4 million for this project. The Penang state government allocated 2.63 acres land for the site. It took 14 months to complete the construction. This is a classic example of the success of the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model in action.<\/p>\n
Apart of the Learning Centre, there is also a Penang Badminton Academy. It is equipped with 6 badminton courts, targeted to make Penang, the leading badminton state in Malaysia.<\/p>\n
With the kick start of the Penang Youth Development Corporation (PYDC) together with the the completion of the Karpal Singh Penang Learning Centre, we are proud to say that whilst a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, this is Penang\u2019s first step – with a little help from our friend ECM Libra Foundation. Let us provide our youths ladders of opportunity and escalators to mobility. Thank you.<\/p>\n
LIM GUAN ENG<\/p>\n
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Speech By Chief Minister of Penang Lim Guan Eng During The Official Opening of the Karpal Singh Penang Learning Centre & Penang Badminton Academy At Jalan Kaki Bukit, Bukit Gelugor, Pulau Pinang On Friday, 9 May 2014. First let me thank Dato\u2019 Seri Kalimullah and ECM Libra Foundation not only for the RM 4 million …<\/p>\n