KOTA KINABALU: There are plans to improve mission schools and bring back their glory days.

Minister in Prime Minister’s Department Tan Sri Bernard Dompok said he was preparing a Cabinet paper on how the schools could be improved to provide quality education.

He said the schools' managements met him to discuss ways to improve the schools and he had also taken a delegation to meet the Education Minister to highlight issues facing the schools.

“One of the complaints is that the schools are losing their ethos. The schools' cultures are slowly withering away and they do not want this to happen,” Dompok told reporters after opening the Moyog Upko division meeting here yesterday.

“At best, what they are looking at is for the Government to support them in terms of teachers and finances while the schools subscribe to the syllabus of the Government,” he said.

He explained that the high cost of maintaining the schools and teachers were among the reasons mission schools allowed the Government to administer the schools.

Dompok said details of the Cabinet paper on the sort of action which could be taken to help the schools were still being worked out.

“We don’t know if the Government will agree to it or not,” he added.

On Manila’s proposal for Permanent Resident status for long-staying Filipino illegal immigrants in Sabah, Dompok said they had to follow the laws of the country and not try to use the “fast lane.”

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