Published on: Monday, July 07, 2008 |
Kota Kinabalu: Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Tan Sri Bernard Dompok will present a paper to the Cabinet, outlining the challenges faced by the Mission schools as well as suggestions to preserve their identity.
Dompok, who oversees the Education Services Commission, said he was now working on the paper, which would include recommendations to ensure these schools would not lose their identity and roles.
"The time has come for us to revisit the role of the Mission schools. These schools have been losing their ethos... it is weakening.
"We do not want to see a day where you cannot recognise the Mission schools anymore," he said after opening the Moyog Upko triennial general meeting, Sunday.
Dompok, who is Upko President, said: "These schools have provided education to my generation of leaders. I think a lot of Cabinet members both at the federal and state levels, have been the product of Mission schools."
He said among the things the government could consider was to let the Mission schools' board to run the administration.
They, however, would continue to use the syllabus prepared by the Government, he said.
"Everybody understands that perhaps the Mission schools will have difficulty in financing themselves if they were purely private as in the past.
"That was the very reason why the Mission schools agreed that the Government took over the administration," he said.
