YAYASAN SARAWAK INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS
KUCHING: Team Dynamic Kuching (TDK) applauded the Sarawak government for building state-owned international schools for Sarawak’s talented children.
Its team leader, Eric Tay, described achieving the pledge by the Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) government is a felicitous approach that would eventually benefit Sarawakian students.
Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Tun Openg recently officiated at an earth-breaking ceremony for the first ever state-owned international school (Yayasan Sarawak International School) that will be built at Mile 12, Jalan Kuching-Serian.
It was also announced that by early 2022, four other state-owned international schools will begin construction in Sibu, Bintulu, Miri and one more in Kuching.
“The establishment of the international schools means Sarawak, as one of the four signatories of Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63), is on course to take back its rights as endowed by the agreement, including the rights over education,” said Tay.
As one of the improvements in Sarawak’s education system, English will be the primary medium for teaching and its syllabus will be based on International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) by Cambridge.
According to Tay, it is a practical initiative by the government in laying a solid English foundation for the students.
“I hope that in the near future, the government will step further to set up state-owned international higher institutions of learning,”
“It is to ensure a path for school leavers from international secondary schools to cultivate what they’ve studied, especially those scientific and technological talents with a global perspective able to get footholds in the world of technology,” Tay added.
Talented Sarawak children from different ethnic groups who meet the results criteria have an equal opportunity to enter the schools. At the same time, students from B40 families would receive full study fees.
On this, Eric expressed his compliment and described it as a fair and righteous allocation of Sarawak’s resources to ensure all Sarawakians have the right to a fair education.
