Sunday Star, Nation, May 1, 2005
Aid for mission schools lauded

KUALA LUMPUR: The National Union of Teaching Profession lauds the Education Ministry's move to help mission schools under the Ninth Malaysia Plan. 

“Mission schools will benefit from the special aid as most of them are greatly in need of money for furniture and general administrative expenses,” union secretary-general Lok Yim Pheng said in a press statement yesterday. 

On Friday, Education Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein said many of the premier schools in the nation are mission schools. 

Hishammuddin said his ministry recognised the important contribution of such schools in the education system, one “that is sustained by a special ethos which the alumni, students and teachers should maintain and pass on.” 

“I have asked for an increase in capital allocation for the mission schools, so that they may continue to pass on their traditions of excellence into the 21st century,” he said. 

On April 15, the minister announced that schools that were more than 100 years old would be accorded a special benchmark status. They included mission schools. 

Under the Ninth Malaysia Plan, the infrastructure and facilities of these schools would be upgraded to help more students achieve excellence.


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