‘Ministry doing its best to assist schools in Sarawak’
ULU LUBAI, Limbang: The Ministry of Education is working hard to help schools boost performances through introduction of best practice model, and addressing problems on repairs and upgrade as well as providing the needed facilities.
WELCOME TO ULU LUBAI: Muhyiddin and wife Noorainee participate in the Iban ‘miring’ ceremony at Rumah Tugang during their short visit, assisted by Jabu (right) and others.
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin urged the listed top performing schools to assist the government’s schools in improving programmes through contributing innovative ideas.
“There has been a 40 per cent improvement from lowest rank schools under Band 6 and 7 last year,” he said.
Muhyiddin said this yesterday at SK Lubai when announcing the second group comprising 23 schools nationwide, including two from Sarawak, listed under top performing school category by the Ministry of Education.
“Good leadership and management are the factors that allowed SK Ulu Lubai to be classified as top performing school plus its extraordinary performance and multiple awards winning despite its humble infrastructure.”
On lack of school infrastructure, he said the government is mulling various approaches including the involvement of private sector to help build schools.
“National audit revealed that six per cent of the 10,000 schools in the country, mostly in Sabah and Sarawak, are in critical needs for repairs and upgrading,” he explained.
Pointing out that this would require a huge amount of funding; the ministry could not address the problem immediately as there is insufficient allocation.
Meanwhile, Muhyiddin said the requests for roads and bridges constructions made by Batu Danau assemblyman Paulus Palu Gumbang and Limbang member of parliament Hasbi Habibolah would be given serious consideration and action would be taken accordingly thereafter.
Gumbang had put forward RM56 million in the wish list to connect the people in Lubai for road construction from Bukit Sangan to Ulu Lubai and eight bridges.
“This matter would be addressed by the Ministry of Rural Development led by Datuk Seri Shafiee Apdal, and the request to upgrade SK Ulu Lubai and SK Nanga Merit would be brought up in the second rolling of the Tenth Malaysia Plan,” he said.
He also announced an initial grant of RM0.5 million for repairs, maintenance and purchase of equipment for SK Lubai and the teacher’s quarters.
Besides that, Rumah Tugang longhouse, located next to the school, was also granted RM120,000 for its roof replacement.
“I have no doubt the people here are 100 per cent behind the BN government,” he remarked.
Earlier on, Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Alfred Jabu Anak Numpang, in his speech, called the people to continue supporting BN in the coming election and not to be misled by the oppositions with their different ideologies.
“We promise to safeguard Sarawak as we advanced with the Government Turnaround Plan (GTP) and Economic Transformation Programme (ETP) in our transformation towards a high income economy,” he said.
Also accompanying Muhyiddin were his wife Puan Sri Noorainee Abdul Rahman, Rural and Regional Development Minister Datuk Seri Shafiee Apdal, Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Alfred Jabu and many others.
Borneo Post by Philip Kiew. Posted on February 18, 2011, Friday
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