GTP 2.0 - Prime Minister's Office of Malaysia

CHAPTER
6
ovERvIEW
100%
80%
60%
40%
20%
0%
Sources: Perangkaan Pendidikan Malaysia, Quick Facts
Improving
Student
Outcomes
NKRa
An educated Malaysian workforce is essential to attaining the
development goals of vision 2020, and all efforts in this area must
begin from the ground up. The adult literacy rate in Malaysia is in
the 92nd percentile, 1 there is evidence to suggest that Malaysian
youths are slipping when compared with regional peers. 2
MALAYSIA HAS MADE GREAT PROGRESS IN PROVIDING
ACCESS TO EDUCATION
Enrolment rates at public primary and secondary schools
1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010
1—UNDP Human Development Index, Malaysia, 2008.
2—PISA 2009 result and TIMSS 2011 result.
94%
87%
77%
Primary
Lower Secondary
Upper Secondary*
* Upper secondary schools include
vocational and technical schools
The EDU NKRA is focused on
immediate goals in line with the
overall philosophy of the GTP.
The EDU NKRA makes special effort to be
inclusive because access to quality education
is a right for every Malaysian regardless of race,
income-levels or other background. It thus has
focused on specific education areas identified
in the GTP Lab as those that will have the
most significant impact on as wide an audience
as possible.
Over the last three years, the EDU NKRA
has reported significant improvements in
all areas, thereby laying the foundation for
the transformation of Malaysian education
in line with the Preliminary Report of the
Malaysian Education Blueprint which was
launched in September 2012. But while the
Blueprint provides the overarching vision for
the education sector, the EDU NKRA is focused
on immediate goals in line with the overall
philosophy of the GTP.
The work of the EDU NKRA is therefore
a subset of the Blueprint that works towards
similar goals.
94 Government transformation Programme—Annual Report 2012 Chapter six 95
Government transformation Programme—Annual Report 2012 Chapter six