SIBU: Assistant Minister of Youth Development Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah fully supports Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Adenan Satem’s strong stand on Unified Examination Certificate (UEC) and English as a medium of instruction.
Abdul Karim, who is Asajaya assemblyman, said the UEC issues had been lingering for too long and it was puzzling why the Education Ministry continued to withhold recognition of the certificate when it was recognised worldwide.
“There’s a high possibility that it’s not recognised because the parties lobbying for its recognition then are opposition leaning and Chinese based parties in BN are equally to be blamed for not being outspoken enough.
“As what has been correctly mentioned by the Chief Minister, the non-recognition by the government will lead to those having this certificate “moving” out of Malaysia and creating “brain drain” which eventually will be a loss to the country,” Abdul Karim told The Borneo Post yesterday.
Adenan had said he could not understand why the federal government refused to recognise UEC when private universities in many countries recognised this certificate by students from Chinese Independent Schools.
Adenan said this at Sarawak Economic Development Corporation (SEDC)’s Integrity Day 2015 in Kuching on Wednesday.
On the English Language, he said it was an international language of science and technology, literature, and communications.
Adenan added that by giving due emphasis to English, the state was in no way trying to put down Bahasa Melayu (BM), adding that both could be raised (English and BM) at the same time.
On this, Abdul Karim, said: “On English, we salute our CM on his stand. English is a universal language and language of Science.
“Downgrading it just because of the need to ‘promote’ BM has lead to many Malaysians unable to speak and understand English.
“It should be promoted on par with usage of BM. I am glad the state government is firm on this…not because we want to be different or we want to go against KL but the current needs to go forward require our people to be conversant with this language.”
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