Pekadin calls for fast-track education transformation in Sabah

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KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah Kadazandusun Murut Welfare and Education Association (Pekadin) has called on the Education Ministry to fast-track education transformation in Sabah, particularly in rural areas.

Pekadin advisor Latif Kandok said such a move would contribute to achieving the high-performance school status.

He noted that the absence of such schools in Sabah showed that the state was

still lagging behind in terms of performance in the field of academia, co-curriculum and niche areas.

“We’re now moving towards Vision 2020. That means something needs to be done to fast-track education transformation in Sabah.

“Of course we appreciate efforts by the state Education Department towards this goal but Pekadin feels that there’s an urgent need for a paradigm shift to change the state of affairs for the better,” he told Bernama here yesterday.

Last year, Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin announced that 14

secondary and six primary schools had been accorded the high-performance school status, none of them from Sabah.

However, Latif said the task of moulding such schools should not be shouldered by educators or teachers alone, as it must also be shared by parents.

Parents, he said, played a pivotal role in nurturing and creating interest among children in a bid to spur them towards excellence and educational success. – Bernama