Ke Arah Pendidikan Bermutu

Abstract

The Editorial Board would like to record here its thanks to the writer of this article for permission to print the article in this journal. This article, with slight modification and the addition of synopsis in English by the Editorial Board, is the speech entitled "Ke Arah Pendidikan Bermutu" delivered by the writer as the Director of Educational Planning and Research,Ministry of Education, Malaysia to the Association of Organisers of the Schools, Peninsular Malaysia, on 29th September, 1979. The Editorial Board believes that the article provides the readers with valuable information on the current concern of the Ministry of Education.

 This article, Towards Quality Education, describes the effort that Malaysia has put in for educational development and concludes that the progress during the past two decades has been impressive from the quantitative point of view. This is not to say that the qualitative dimension of educational development has been totally neglected. From the start, activities for qualitative development had been interlaced with programmes for quantitative expansion. Now that urgent tasks of providing infrastructural physical facilities, of training sufficient numbers of teachers, and of providing a reasonable period of universal education, have been fulfilled, the country is in a position to shift its emphasis towards qualitative development of education. The article then draws up an overview of the kinds of programmes that are aimed at bringing about a greater degree of efficiency and effectiveness of the teaching-learning process in the pursuit of quality education.