10 Agenda (Part 2)

(This is the second part of the task, for the first part click here)

Salam folks!

Let’s continue with item #5 to #1..

#5 Freedom for schools to generate external income for ICT programme (Stakeholder:School Administrator)

Currently, only a handful of government assisted schools are given freedom to manage and generate income independently. What is understood is that some schools receive a lot of external revenue from donations and partnerships with PTAs and companies. Why not give the freedom to every school there is to seek additional funding for  their ICT programme, which would translate into less government spending and greater public involvement!

#4 Make available or improve internet connectivity in schools (Stakeholder:Telecommunication Companies[Telcos])

I understand that a telco need to spend tens to hundreds million alone on acquiring licenses from government for WiMax, 3G, HSBB and stuff. I suggest that these license need not to be paid instead the telcos would be required to invest in internet facilities for schools. If not, the MOE could broker a cheaper deal with telcos to make sure that every school have at least good internet service quality, even better if it’s WiFi blanketed.

#3 School partnership with private sector (Stakeholder:Private Sector)

Recently, there has been interesting development in terms of private sector involvement in education with partnership and sponsorship programs with companies like Khazanah Nasional, Astro, Sime Darby and so on. They would either sponsor schools, adopt schools or supply schools with ICT tools. I would continue such programme as it is very beneficial in helping the ministry to better equip the schools with facilities not just ICT ones. I would try to get at least 20% of schools having private sponsors.

#2 The curricular (Stakeholder:MOE)

I just wrote “the curricular” there because I don’t specifically believe that it’s needed to be constantly reviewed, changed or improve. What’s more, we already have a new one coming in the name of KSSR. If you could remember, ICT use and application is mentioned as one of the emphases in KBSR. The problem therein lies with implementation. A study is needed to check on why emphases on ICT is not put in reality. After that, solution.

#1 Incentives for teachers (Stakeholder:Teachers)

I am not talking about special RM500 incentives as proposed by certain political bloc here. I am talking about incentives and rewards for teachers to develop their own ICT tools (like softwares, coursewares, animations etc) independently for use in classroom. I understand that there were quite a number of IT graduates who got into the teaching profession via KPLI but their knowledge and talent was put to waste as they were discouraged to develop any in school. Why not set up a scheme whereby teachers who successfully developed ICT-based teaching materials will be acknowledged and rewarded?

Basically, that’s what I’m would do if I wake up from my sleep today and become a huge figure in the education world. 🙂 Tell me if I sound like politicians hehehe

(Non related picture, I just found it cute and amusing hehehe.. Got it from theStar)