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Better PMR results
School finally gets its own compound
Terengganu allocated RM28mil for salary increment

Posted: 23 Dec 2011 05:35 PM PST

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah students continued to show an improvement in English as the state crossed its targeted 61% passing rate in the Penilaian Menengah Rendah (PMR) examinations this year.

State Education director Datuk Dr Muhiddin Yusin said more than 70% of the 37,780 students, who sat for the English paper, passed compared to 67% last year.

He also said the passing rate achieved this year was 63%, with PMR candidates in three schools namely SMK Sains Lahad Datu, SMK Sains Sabah and SM Agama Inanam obtaining 100% passes.

Muhiddin said 1,025 students achieved As in all the subjects they took compared to only 807 last year.

Other than English, the subjects of Mathematics and History also showed improvements, he added.

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School finally gets its own compound

Posted: 23 Dec 2011 03:08 PM PST

YONG PENG: SJK (C) Yong Peng 2 has its own grounds finally, after sharing classrooms with another school in Yong Peng new village for decades.

Deputy Education Minister Datuk Dr Wee Ka Siong said the Government had allocated 17.45mil to build the school, including RM3mil to construct a bridge over Sungai Temehel and a 300m access road to the school.

The school, located some 2km away from its current location in Jalan Sekolah Cina, has four interconnected blocks with 25 classrooms, staff rooms, sports facilities, hall and others.

Dr Wee said the ministry had approved the operation of the school starting January 3 next year.

"This school has unconventional design and completed with facilities for the disabled, changing room and showers," he said after visiting the school last Sunday (dec18).

Dr Wee said the school, on a 2ha land allocated by the Johor government, was a success project under the Ninth Malaysian Plan.

School headmaster Chiew How Fan said the school had 600 pupils and it needed a new building due to growing population.

He said SJK (C) Yong Peng 1 has more than 1,000 pupils and both of the schools rotate between two sessions — morning and afternoon — every year.

"Finally, students in both of the schools will attend only morning session," he said.

The Chinese primary school was set up in 1927 and located in Jalan Batu Pahat here before it was relocated to the new village nearby during the Emergency period.

The school was split into two – SJK (C) Yong Peng 1 and SJK (C) Yong Peng 2 – in May 1, 1967, due to increased population.

Pupils of both schools had been sharing classrooms within a same school compound since then.

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Terengganu allocated RM28mil for salary increment

Posted: 23 Dec 2011 05:49 PM PST

KUALA TERENGGANU: Terengganu has provided an additional allocation of RM28 million to implement the New Remuneration Scheme in the Public Service (SPBA) next year, state secretary Datuk Mazlan Ngah said.

Of the amount, RM14 million will be for the salary of state civil servants while the rest will be for the staff of local authorities and statutory bodies.

"We have discussed this at the recent executive council meeting," he told reporters after here.

The amount involves a 10% salary increment for state civil servants and staff of statutory bodies and local authorities.

He added that the Public Service Department would give a briefing on the SBPA next week.

There are about 12,000 state civil service posts of which 8,000 have been filled up, he added.

"The intake for the rest of the posts is still being frozen," he said, expressing confidence that they would be filled up once the SBPA was enforced. — Bernama

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Sabtu, 24 Disember 2011