Ministry relaxes conditions on Jit Sin branch school

Another milestone: Dr Wee interacting with the pupils

THE Education Ministry has agreed in principle to amend two conditions that it had earlier imposed on Jit Sin High School Bukit Mertajam's proposed branch school in Sungai Bakap, south Seberang Prai.

Deputy Education Minister Datuk Dr Wee Ka Siong said the ministry would allow the school to conduct six periods of Chinese lessons per week instead of five periods as suggested earlier.

He said Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, who is also Education Minister, had verbally agreed for the school management to follow its conventional method of teaching the lessons.

Dr Wee said that traditionally, eight Chinese schools in Penang conducted six periods of Chinese lessons per week while two other Chinese schools in the state conducted seven periods of Chinese lessons per week.

In other states, he said, Chinese lessons were only taught over five periods in a week.

"When I spoke to Tan Sri Muhyiddin on the matter recently, he said it was not a problem and the school could maintain its status quo in conducting Chinese lessons as practised all this while.

"Tan Sri Muhyiddin also agreed that 20% of the new school's board of directors be picked by the Education Ministry as opposed to the ministry's earlier condition that it would pick 50% of the board members," Dr Wee said yesterday after opening the newly built RM5mil SJK (C) Beng Teik Pusat school building in Taman Kota Permai, Bukit Mertajam.

He announced an allocation of RM100,000 for SJK (C) Beng Teik Pusat, adding that the ministry had given the school RM3.5mil for its new building last year.

"The Prime Minister's Department together with MCA's Huaren Education Foundation also gave RM200,000 for the school's land acquisition," he said.

Dr Wee said Penang MCA also paid RM1,000 in monthly rental for the school to temporarily operate from a rented building nearby since 2003 till last year, before the move to the new building last month.

He said the school now had an enrolment of 250 pupils, adding that the new three-storey school building could accommodate up to 1,000 pupils in a single session.

The school, established in 1945, was relocated from its former pre-war building on Lebuh Katz, George Town, due to poor enrolment.

-The Star-

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