Educational policy generally is defined as the collection of laws and rules that govern the operation of education systems. In Malaysia, our education is overseen by government ministry: the Ministry of Education for matters up to the secondary level, and the Ministry of Higher Education for tertiary education.
Education can be occurs in many forms for many purposes through different type of institutions. The education is including the early childhood education, kinder garden, primary school, secondary school, universities, graduate and professional education, adult education and job training. Therefore, educational policy can directly affect the education people who engage in at all ages. The educational policy analysis is the scholarly study of education policy. Examples of education policy analysis may be found in the academic journals such as Education Policy Analysis Archives. [1]
Eventually education plays the important role in implanting the idea of “One Malaysia” which unites different races and have them contribute to our country. It provides us sufficient reading materials and allows us to access the extra information via internet. It also benefits us by providing some incentives for our excellent achievement in education.
The decrement of standard in every year caused the education policy becomes more transparent and not effective as previous years. It also affects the students as they don’t need to study much to pass the exam. It pulls down not only the image of education system, but also the image of the nation. As it requires and expects an individual to give out his 100%, it might be quite impossible. To develop a world class education not only focuses in Malaysia education but looking forward to the more advanced country as the reference or benchmark to achieve the target.
Other than that, the ministry have sent numerous missions to study i.e. “smart schools’ e-learning, community college system but nothing ever happens upon their return. The Ministry of Education have Malaysian Students Department is almost all countries but what do they do. With the amount of money spent by JPA, MARA and other agencies Malaysia could have easily built enough universities and colleges to cater to 20 times the number of students that they sent overseas. But we do not have the talented instructors to teach the latest courses. Right now most of the teachers and instructors in Universities and Colleges in Malaysia were once unemployed and took up teaching as an alternative to being unemployed. Thus the lackadaisical attitude and poor quality of teaching pulls down the standard and quality of education in Malaysia. If this situation continues to happen, it is very hard to achieve the mission.
Besides that, the level of English has fallen. We have one huge population of Malaysians whose English skills are poor to non-existent, and a smaller but sizable population whose English skills are very good. The main reason most of our schools and higher leanings fails at preparing students to use English properly, and that most of our teaching institutions fails at preparing teachers to use English properly. Many students probably cannot understand enough English to follow the lessons given in English, and most teachers probably don't have good enough English to give those lessons. It is hardly to say that English can bring up the overall quality of English if we have teachers with poor English often teaching pupils with poor English.
References
[1] “Education Policy,” 2010, [Online] Retrieved at October 25, 2010. Available from:
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