Historical Background of Chinese Schools in Malaysia

History of Chinese national type school starting time out early in the 19th century, the Chinese society has already made a stand on sustaining their language and culture to the heyday that they decided to request for their own Chinese national type school. Realizing that this could have got an up stir in racism in Malaysia, still the Chinese society in Malaysia strongly believed in preserving the Chinese language among the Chinese youths.In the beginning, they were asked to give up their properties to be incorporated with the National School system, which for the Chinese caused an uproar but after negotiating a deal was made and they hold to instead become National Type schools. Through this system, the government could and be in charge of the school curriculum and teaching personalized while the buildings still belonged to the schools. During this time, primary schools were allowed to keep Chinese as the ordinary in the schools and their book but for Secondary schools they were required to switch to English-medium schools.More than 60 schools changed to National Type schools, including the famous Chung Ling High School, Penang Chinese Girls School, Jit the pits High School and Ave Maria Convent High School, Sam Tet High School. counterbalance though according to the proposal that most subjects are allowed to use the medium of English, the teaching and learning of Mandrin remained compulsory in these schools, with most of them dedicating at least one seventh to one fifth of their teaching time per workweek to Mandrin studies.Even with all the compromising the proposal was looked at as almost unfeasible for a tad of them, making some of some of the Chinese schools gambol to become private highschool schools or Chinese high schools as they were called later on. During the 1960s and 70s this concept slowly turned under the basswood light making many of the National Type schools reopen their case-by-case high school branch. The numbers kept increa sing to a tiptop where the political situation made it difficult to set up additional independent Chinese high schools.There are 60 independent Chinese high schools in Malaysia, including Foon Yew High School which is the largest secondary school in Malaysia with over 7000 students. Foon Yew High School was the first school to object and spill the governments proposal, as well as the first high school to have a branch campus (located in Kulai) National-type Secondary Schools are called Malaysian Independent Chinese Secondary Schools (MICSS) which came into being after the discipline Act 1961, determined to use their mother tongue to preserve the Malaysian Chinese culture.In 1973, Dong Jiao Zong formed the MICSS Working Committee, to develop the examination and platform of the 60 Independent Schools in Malaysia. The Unified Examination started in 1975 and has act to be run every year since. (UCSCA, page 1) http//www. nst. com. my/latest/chua-to-meet-dpm-over-teacher-shortage-in -chinese-schools-1. 48918 http//www. teo-education. com/teophotos/albums/userpics/053_Early_Education_in_Malaysia. pdf http//malaysia-today. can/mtcolumns/from-around-the-blogs/34572-why-we-chose-chinese-school-for-our-children- http//educationmalaysia. blogspot. com/2005/06/national-vs-chinese-school-i. html